“…The GmbH's popularity in transportation and 42 The German sources do not yield comprehensive micro-level evidence on partnerships, unfortunately, so we cannot study the substitution patterns in detail. Guinnane and Martínez-Rodríguez (2018) use firm-level data for Spain to show that the SRL displaced ordinary partnerships above all, but also had some effect on the adoption of corporations and limited partnerships. We cannot assume the same would hold in Germany, where the corporation was less common and flexible than in Spain.…”