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Infografik
17.10.2023
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
This paper examines the impact of RMB internationalization reforms on invoicing currency choices of firms exporting to China. Using detailed French customs data spanning 2011-2017, it documents three novel stylized facts on RMB adoption and suggests a novel mechanism that drives the self-selection of firms into RMB invoicing. Additionally, it provides causal estimates of the impact of RMB use on...
20.09.2023| Sonali Chowdhry, DIW Berlin
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Forschungsprojekt
The project seeks to identify the share of productive and fast-growing firms in the economy, their characteristics such as sector, location (urban/rural, low-density, high-density, etc.), size and age since formation, and their growth performance. Furthermore, it will be analyzed - as far as the data situation allows - which factors contribute to the success.
Aktuelles Projekt| Entrepreneurship
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Forschungsprojekt
Das Projekt zielt darauf ab, den Anteil von produktiven und schnell wachsenden Unternehmen an der Wirtschaft, ihre Merkmale wie Sektor, Standort (Stadt/Land, schwach verdichtet, verdichtet, stark verdichtet etc.), Größe und Alter seit der Gründung sowie ihre Wachstumsentwicklung zu ermitteln. Ferner soll untersucht werden - soweit es die Datenlage zulässt - welche Einflussgröße zum Erfolg beitragen.
Aktuelles Projekt| Entrepreneurship
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
The innovation impact of acquisitions of small targets with products close to launch by large product market incumbents is currently debated, weighing whether incumbents might preemptively terminate or “kill” the innovative projects of these targets. This paper provides empirical evidence on which M&A deals spur and which stifle innovation. To this end, we not only look at the product market...
15.03.2023| Jo Seldeslachts, DIW Berlin & KU Leuven
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Workshop
Based on various data sources, the workshop will examine the economic and psychological situation of the self-employed three years after the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. Next to analyzing the immediate impact of the crisis, the workshop will address the adjustment measures taken by the self-employed and the long-term consequences. Possible research questions include what strategies the self...
18.01.2023
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
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 ...
In:
The Journal of Technology Transfer
48 (2023), 4, S. 1161–1175
| Ioannis Giotopoulos, Alexander S. Kritikos, Aggelos Tsakanikas
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
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 ...
In:
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
47 (2023), 3, S. 788-830
| Marco Caliendo, Daniel Graeber, Alexander S. Kritikos, Johannes Seebauer
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Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge
In:
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
(06.11.2023), S. 16
| Alexander S. Kritikos
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
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 ...
In:
Small Business Economics
61 (2023), S. 1027–1051
| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Daniel Rodríguez, Claudia Stier