In this documentation about the "Mannheimer Foundation Panels" of the ZEW the identification of firm foundations and liquidations as well as difficulties occurring in this context are discussed. The ZEW…
During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic…
Over the last decades manufacturers have outsourced service inputs and shared resources with competitors. As a result, service inputs have been the fastest growing input factor in German manufacturing, followed…
This paper makes an empirical contribution to confirm the stylized fact that the performance of firms deteoriates in the years before exit. For this reason we evaluate whether market exits differ significantly…
Investment Opportunities in Central and Eastern European Equity Markets For firms acting in technological niches the expansion into foreign markets can be a way to increase sales and to thus to recover initial…