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Externe Working Papers
Self-efficacy reflects the self-belief that one can persistently perform difficult and novel tasks while coping with adversity. As such beliefs reflect how individuals behave, think, and act, they are key for successful entrepreneurial activities. While existing literature mainly analyzes the influence of the task-related construct of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, we take a different perspective and ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2023,
41 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 15848)
| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Daniel Rodriguez, Claudia Stier
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Externe Working Papers
High growth firms (HGFs) are important for job creation and considered to be precursors of economic growth. We investigate how product- and labor-market regulations, as well as the quality of regional governments that implement these regulations, affect HGF development across European regions. Using data from Eurostat, OECD, WEF, and Gothenburg University, we show that both regulatory stringency and ...
Potsdam:
CEPA,
2023,
32 S.
(CEPA Discussion Paper ; 71)
| Sara Amoroso, Benedikt Herrmann, Alexander S. Kritikos
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Externe Working Papers
Self-efficacy reflects the self-belief that one can persistently perform difficult and novel tasks while coping with adversity. As such beliefs reflect how individuals behave, think, and act, they are key for successful entrepreneurial activities. While existing literature mainly analyzes the influence of the task-related construct of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, we take a different perspective and ...
Potsdam:
CEPA,
2023,
41 S.
(CEPA Discussion Papers ; 61)
| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Daniel Rodriguez, Claudia Stier
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Externe Working Papers
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the impact of this program on the subjective survival probability. In particular, we investigate how the digitalization ...
Mannheim:
ZEW,
2022,
29 S.
(Discussion Paper / Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung ; 22-045)
| Irene Bertschek, Joern Block, Alexander S. Kritikos, Caroline Stiel
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Externe Working Papers
Predicting entrepreneurial development based on individual and business-related characteristics is a key objective of entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of becoming an entrepreneur influence the subsequent entrepreneurial development. In our analysis, we examine a broad range of business outcomes including survival and income, as well as job creation, expansion ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2022,
43 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 15793)
| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Claudia Stier
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Externe Working Papers
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the impact of this program on the subjective survival probability. In particular, we investigate how the digitalization ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2022,
29 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 15608)
| Irene Bertschek, Joern Block, Alexander S. Kritikos, Caroline Stiel
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Externe Working Papers
We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health, self-employed men displayed no significant changes up to early 2021. Financial losses are important in explaining these ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2022,
II, 65 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 15260)
| Marco Caliendo, Daniel Graeber, Alexander S. Kritikos, Johannes Seebauer
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Externe Working Papers
Does personality matter? Is an individual who is open to experience more or less likely to become an entrepreneur? Is it better to score low or high in agreeableness for surviving as an entrepreneur? To the extent that personality captures one part of entrepreneurial abilities, which are usually unobservable, the analysis of traits and personality characteristics helps better understanding such abilities. ...
2022,
17 S.
(GLO Discussion Paper Series ; 1137)
| Alexander S. Kritikos
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Externe Working Papers
We use the prolonged Greek crisis as a case study to understand how a lasting economic shock affects the innovation strategies of firms in economies with moderate innovation activities. Adopting the 3-stage CDM model, we explore the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity for different size groups of Greek manufacturing firms during the prolonged crisis. At the first stage, we find that the ...
2022,
23 S.
(GLO Discussion Paper Series ; 1122)
| Ioannis Giotopoulos, Alexander S. Kritikos, Aggelos Tsakanikas
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Externe Working Papers
Predicting entrepreneurial development based on individual and business-related characteristics is a key objective of entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of becoming an entrepreneur influence the subsequent entrepreneurial development. In our analysis, we examine a broad range of business outcomes including survival and income, as well as job creation, expansion ...
Potsdam:
CEPA,
2022,
43 S.
(CEPA Discussion Papers ; 59)
| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Claudia Stier