This paper deals with the question how to model health effects after the cessation of a randomised controlled trial (RCT). Using clinical trial data on severe congestive heart failure patients we illustrate how survival beyond the cessation of a RCT can be predicted based on parametric survival...

Für ein differenziertes Verständnis erfolgreicher Innovationsstrategien und -systeme ist es erforderlich, regional und sektoral spezifische Muster in den Blick zu nehmen. Zudem gilt es, den Innovationsbegriff nicht auf den Bereich der Produktinnovation zu verengen, sondern auch innovative...

After 20 years of transition from an economy integrated in an exchange scheme of planned economies towards an open market economy based on the ideas of competition, we ask whether East German firms succeeded in finding their place in the international division of labour. We concentrate on the...