Search Results - Business Economics

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 …

Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

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

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

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...

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...

Surviving against the tide: Are new businesses in innovative industries Less affected by general economic trends?

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - 2014

We investigate the role of industry and region-specific conditions for the survival of new businesses in innovative and in other manufacturing industries. The data comprises all German manufacturing start-ups of the 1992 to 2005 period. In contrast to studies for some other countries, we find...

New business formation and the productivity of manufacturing incumbents: Effects and mechanisms

Changoluisa, Javier; Fritsch, Michael - 2014

We analyze the effect of new business formation on the productivity of incumbent manufacturing establishments. We …

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

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

Business cycles, unemployment and entrepreneurial entry: First evidence from Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013

extent it is the business cycle or the employment status influencing entry rates into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for … real GDP has a negative effect. This implies that new business formation is counter-cyclical. Further disentangling periods …

Regional public research, higher education, and innovative start-ups: An empirical investigation

Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2013

public research and education have a strong positive impact on new business formation in innovative industries but not in …