Forschung und Innovation werden zunehmend als zentrale Handlungsfelder einer wachstums- und beschäftigungsorientierten Politik angesehen. Hierdurch stellt sich die Frage nach internationalen Trends in der…
This paper is concerned with the question as to what extent population size and density affect the cost of providing public services at the subnational level. Empirical estimates of cost functions are obtained…
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in European countries…
In this paper, we analyze the investment and divestment patterns of different types of venture capitalists. Using a data set embracing all venture-backed IPOs that occurred on Germany's Neuer Markt we…