In this paper we consider trends in the distribution of player talent across association football clubs over time. Player talent is the most important prerequisite for team success in professional sports leagues…

We provide a structured overview of the quantitative literature on the economic impacts of telecommunications networks and broadband internet. Differentiating between wireline and wireless technologies as well…

• International Financial Market Data — Assessments and Expectations
• No Change Expected for Short-Term Interest Rates
• EUR/CHF Exchange Rate not Expected to Change
• Inflation Expectations Adjusted Downward
• Stock-Market…

In light of increasing flood damage, private flood mitigation gains more relevance. We inves-tigate empirically whether the uptake of private flood mitigation measures in Germany is af-fected by (a) the…

Extant research has characterized a firm’s search for external knowledge in its innovation activities as either relational or transactional in nature. The former implies that a firm chooses and develops…

• Gründungstätigkeit in Deutschland stagniert
• Räumliche Analysen mit dem Mannheimer Unternehmenspanel
• Wagniskapitalinvestitionen in deutsche Unternehmen

We investigate the characteristics of cities gaining access to the German interurban bus network in the first two years following the deregulation of the industry in January 2013. Applying both parametric and…