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The deep imprint of Roman sandals: Evidence of long-lasting effects of Roman rule on personality, economic performance, and well-being in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Wahl, Fabian; … - 2020

We investigate whether the Roman presence in the southern part of Germany nearly 2,000 years ago had a deep imprinting effect with long run consequences on a broad spectrum of measures ranging from present-day personality profiles to a number of socioeconomic outcomes and why. Today's...

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The deep imprint of Roman sandals : evidence of long-lasting effects of Roman rule on personality, economic performance, and well-beingin Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Wahl, Fabian; … - 2020

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195563

Persistence and change of regional new business formation in the national league table

Fritsch, Michael; Kubliņa, Sandra - In: Journal of evolutionary economics : JEE 29 (2019) 3, pp. 891-917

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Business Cycles and Start-ups across Industries: An Empirical Analysis of German Regions

Konon, Alexander; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2018

We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a … the business cycle on entries in both innovative and non-innovative industries. Entries into the large-scale industries …-ups. Given that both innovative and non-innovative businesses react counter-cyclically in 'regular' recessions, business …

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Entrepreneurial career paths : occupational context and the propensity to become self-employed

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 51 (2018) 1, pp. 129-152

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 49 (2017) 2, pp. 251-272

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Balanced skills and the city : an analysis of the relationship between entrepreneurial skill balance, thickness, and innovation

Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - In: Economic geography 91 (2015) 4, pp. 475-508

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How much of a socialist legacy? : the re-emergence of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation to a market economy

Fritsch, Michael; Bublitz, Elisabeth; Sorgner, Alina; … - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 43 (2014) 2, pp. 427-446

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Fields of knowledge, types of higher education institutions, and innovative start-ups: An empirical investigation

Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2014

We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education institutions in the emergence of innovative start-ups in a region. We show that education and research in the applied and natural sciences have the strongest effect on the emergence of...

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The effect of regional entrepreneurship culture on economic development: Evidence for Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2014

We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship in the mid- 1920s have higher start-up rates about 80...

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