Abstract Despite descriptive empirical evidence on start-up numbers and survival rates of young firms, the interaction of market entry decisions and reactions of incumbent competitors is still insufficiently understood in the entrepreneurship literature. Repeated games offer a suitable...

Summary Drawing on household budget data from the German Income and Consumption Surveys of 1988 and 1993, we estimate demographicaily structured Quadratic Expenditure Systems. Both Full Information Maximum Likelihood methods and a Limited Information approach as proposed recently by Ding and...

Many start-ups chose to compete with incumbent firms using one of two generic strategies: cost leadership or differentiation. Our study demonstrates how this choice depends on whether the start-up was founded out of necessity. Our results, based on a representative data set of 4,568 German...

Drawing on household budget data from the German Income and Consumption Surveys of 1988 and 1993, we estimate demographicaily structured Quadratic Expenditure Systems. Both Full Information Maximum Likelihood methods and a Limited Information approach as proposed recently by Ding and Hadri...

This article focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging information from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Structural Analysis database with data from the EU Labour Force Survey, we construct a...