1. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Skill Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development over Time

    We study how startup teams are assembled in terms of team member human capital characteristics. To this end, we derive a statistically motivated benchmark for new venture team heterogeneity in terms of observed…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2015

    Dynamic Properties of Energy Affordability Measures

    Measures of affordability and of fuel poverty are applied in practice to assess the affordability of energy services, for example, or of water or housing. The extensive body of literature on affordability…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2015

    The Impact of R&D Subsidies during the Crisis

    This study investigates the impact of public R&D subsidies on R&D investment of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany during the most recent economic crisis. Our analysis is based on firm-level…