We use a unique rich newly built data set for German manufacturing enterprises to investigate the relationship between … product diversification and the stability of sales and employment. We find that contrary to portfolio theoretic considerations … more diversified firms exhibit a higher variability of sales and employment. However, the effects are negligibly small from …

Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been attacked for using … overly simplistic trend controls, and for neglecting the potential impact on employment growth. We investigate whether such … considerations call into question our earlier findings of statistically insignificant employment effects for the restaurant …

taxe rate may increase the market failure due to motivation crowding. Provision of information is efficient only in very … specific cases but may be effective in reducing the extent of market failure. A complementary tax-and-information policy … approach is superior to a tax as single instrument if its aim is to reduce consumption and if provision of information raises …

composition of the industry and the service sector. The analysis highlights that rising energy and transportation costs will open …

This paper uses information on more than 160 million export and import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 … as a combination of a good traded and a country traded with. Using merged information from trade transactions and from … surveys conducted by the statistical offices it is shown that, controlling for detailed industry affiliation, the number of …

This paper uses information on import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 merged with information on … industry affiliation. …

This paper uses a new tailor-made data set to investigate the differences in extensive and intensive margins of exports …