Predicting entrepreneurial development based on individual and business-related characteristics is a key objective of entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of becoming an entrepreneur influence the subsequent entrepreneurial development. In our analysis, we examine a broad range of business outcomes including survival and income, as well as job creation, expansion ...
Der Energieverbrauch für das Heizen von Haushalten gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung. Kurzfristig ist die Einsparung von Gas - und damit von Wärme - zu einem zentralen politischen Ziel in der derzeitigen Energiekrise geworden. Nur wenn die Haushalte genügend Gas einsparen, kann eine Einschränkung der industriellen Gasnachfrage vermieden werden. Gaseinsparungen verringern zusätzlich die Knappheit auf...
Energy consumption for household heating is capturing increasing attention. In the short-term, gas – and thus heat–saving has become a core policy objective in the current energy crisis. Only if households save sufficient gas will it be possible to avoid curtailment of industrial energy gas demand. Gas savings will also reduce scarcity on the markets, and thus is an important element to mitigate...
Ein Jahr regieren SPD, Grüne und FDP zusammen – mit erstaunlichem Pragmatismus und Erfolgen für die Sozialpolitik. Doch es gibt Fehler, die schwere Folgen haben könnten. Die Umfragewerte der aktuellen Bundesregierung sind nach ihrem ersten Jahr auf dem Tiefpunkt. Die FDP kratzt nach Niederlagen in den Landtagswahlen in diesem Jahr bei Umfragen bundesweit an der Fünfprozenthürde. Die SPD liegt mit weniger ...
We use machine learning techniques to quantify trade tensions between the United States and China. Our measure matches well-known events in the US-China trade dispute and is exogenous to the developments on global financial markets. Local projections show that rising trade tensions leave US markets largely unaffected, except for firms that are more exposed to China, while negatively impacting stock ...
Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early daycare attendance on health has received little attention in the economic literature. In this study, I investigate the impact of a large daycare expansion in ...
The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general wellbeing, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies, leisure time activities, housing, health, political orientation and more. With its long running panel...
