The self-employed are among those facing the highest probability of strong income losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments in many countries introduced support programs to support the self-employed, including the German federal government, which approved a €50bn emergency aid program...

We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. We mostly find correlations that are consistent with coun- ter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and non-in- novative industries. Entries into the...

Berlin war auch im Jahr 2016 die deutsche Gründungshauptstadt. Pro Kopf wurden deutlich mehr Betriebe sowohl im Vergleich zum Bundesdurchschnitt als auch im Vergleich zu anderen Großstädten wie beispielsweise Hamburg eröffnet. Außerdem nimmt im Bund die Gesamtzahl der Gründungen seit dem...

Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...