KBW 39: As part of their SME Report Thuringia, the authors note that Thuringia's gross domestic product has developed less favorably than GDP...

Based on information from a large sample of German researchers and using business ownership and nascent entrepreneurship as alternative...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 156: The funding measure „Internationalization of leading-edge clusters”, which IfW researchers have accompanied...

The debate about European monetary union has for a long time been dominated by questions of fiscal convergence and the macroeconomic stability...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 122: In their paper, the authors warn of a new trend towards autarky under the catchword of "technology sovereignty",...

During deep crisis the temptation to enact protectionist measures is especially strong. Protectionist measures are hard to draw back once...

The paper provides firm-level insights into the drivers of foreign technology licensing from the perspective of the licensee, using data...

The paper provides firm-level insights into the drivers of foreign technology licensing from the perspective of the licensee, using data...

This paper uses firm-level survey responses across more than 100 emerging and developing countries to examine whether female managers or...

This paper uses firm-level survey for more than 100 countries to examine whether firms’ female managers or female owners were better at...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 111: The authors analyse whether the German initiative “InterSpiN” is an appropriate policy tool to enhance Germany’s...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 12

Does regional unemployment increase or rather decrease entrepreneurial activity? Although this question has been hotly debated among...

The article analyses the interrelation between unemployment and new business formation using panel data for a large cross-section of...

This paper analyzes the impact of different individual skills and their economy-wide distribution among heterogenous entrepreneurs on a...

Based on original survey data, this paper analyses and compares the role of personal traits and networks in determining entrepreneurial...

This paper deals with the interrelation between EMU and labour market flexibility in Euroland. It is shown that exchange rates between EU...

Although there is a host of literature on the locational choice of traditional economy firms, relatively little is known about the locational...

The current paper deals with the labour market effects of European Monetary Union (EMU). We compare the EU-memberstates' susceptibility to...

This paper discusses the challenges that European Monetary Union (EMU) poses for European labor markets, emphasizing in particular the...