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  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness of Two Start-up Programmes

    Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany's persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its notoriously low self-employment rate. Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such programmes is scarce. We evaluate the effectiveness of two start-up programmes ...

    In: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 70 (2008), 3, S. 347-373 | Hans J. Baumgartner, Marco Caliendo
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach

    This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which focuses on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 persons whose personal characteristics were analyzed by different methods, namely an one-day assessment center (AC) and a standardized questionnaire, before ...

    In: Kyklos 61 (2008), 2, S. 189-214 | Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos
  • Diskussionspapiere 784 / 2008

    Corporate Debt Maturity Choice in Transition Financial Markets

    This paper investigates the determinants of liability maturity choice in transition markets. We formulate a model of firm value maximization that describes managers' choice of optimal debt structure. The theoretical predictions are tested using a unique panel of 4,300 Ukrainian firms during the period 2000-2005. Our estimates confirm the importance of liquidity, signaling, maturity matching, and agency ...

    2008| Andreas Stephan, Oleksandr Talavera, Andriy Tsapin
  • Externe Monographien

    Tax Loss Offset Restrictions - Last Resort for the Treasury? An Empirical Evaluation of Tax Loss Offset Restrictions Based on Micro Data

    Paderborn: Arqus, 2008, 74 S.
    (arqus Diskussionsbeiträge zur Quantitativen Steuerlehre ; 44)
    | Nadja Dwenger
  • Diskussionspapiere 798 / 2008

    The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival

    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, the effects on survival are not as straightforward. Psychological research posits an inverse U-shaped relationship ...

    2008| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
  • Externe Monographien

    The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival

    Bonn: IZA, 2008, 21 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 3525)
    | Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
  • SOEPpapers 108 / 2008

    The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival

    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, the effects on survival are not as straightforward. Psychological research posits an inverse U-shaped relationship ...

    2008| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
  • Diskussionspapiere 804 / 2008

    Locational Conditions, Cooperation, and Innovativeness: Evidence from Research and Company Spin-offs

    This paper has two goals. First, it analyzes the extent to which the innovativeness of spin-offs, either born from a research facility or from another company, is influenced by locational conditions. Second, it provides evidence on how important local cooperation links are in comparison to nonlocal ones. Using a sample of approximately 1,500 East German firms from knowledge-intensive sectors, we estimate ...

    2008| Anna Lejpras, Andreas Stephan
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Reforming the German Local Business Tax: Lessons from an International Comparison and a Microsimulation Analysis

    The local business tax as the main revenue source of local governments in Germany has been under extensive debate for decades. Proposals for reform range from a pure profit tax to an origin-based value-added tax. Local business taxation systems in OECD countries actually represent the whole spectrum between these two extremes. We use a newly developed microsimulation model for the business sector in ...

    In: Finanzarchiv 64 (2008), 2, S. 245-272 | Frank M. Fossen, Stefan Bach
  • Externe Monographien

    Globalization and Competition

    Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2008, 215 S.
    (Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement : Beihefte der Konjunkturpolitik ; 59)
    | Ulrich Blum, Christian Wey, Klaus F. Zimmermann (Eds.)
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