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This paper analyses the effects of discretionary fiscal policy by presenting new empiricalevidence for Germany within a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) framework. FollowingBlanchard and Perotti (2002), the SVAR model is identified by applying institutionalinformation. We find no...

We investigate to what extent convergence in production levels per worker has beenachieved in Germany since unification. To this end, we model the distributionof GDP per employee across German districts using two-component normal mixtures.While in the first year after unification, the two...

Im Rahmen der Innovationsoffensive der letzten Bundesregierung wurden wir mit der Durchführung der Studie „Innovationsverhalten deutscher Software- Entwicklungs-Unternehmen” beauftragt. Anlass ist die Feststellung, dass die Bundesrepublik eine starke Position auf dem Weltmarkt für...

The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working ontheir own having no or just a few employees and where one can find also people working with lowreturns and having firms without stability or prosperous dynamics. However, even the area...