Prof. Dr. Alexander S. Kritikos

Prof. Dr. Alexander S. Kritikos

Member of the Executive Board

Head of Entrepreneurship Research Group

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Research Topics and Working Areas

Alexander Kritikos is scientific member of the executive board of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) since May 2021 and research director of the research group on ‘Entrepreneurship’ since 2011. Before he was head of the Department ‘Innovation, Manufacturing, Service' since 2008 and Vice-President since 2010. He is appointed as Full Professor for Industrial and Institutional Economics at the University of Potsdam, and Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, and of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg.

Alexander Kritikos studied economics and political sciences at the University of Munich where he received in 1989 his degree as Diplom-Volkswirt. After a scholarship at the ‘post graduate program for Applied Microeconomics' of the Free University of Berlin he received his doctoral degree in Economics at the Humboldt-University of Berlin in 1996 and his habilitation in Economics at the European University Viadrina in 2003. Alexander Kritikos was Research Fellow of the German Marshall Fund in Washington (1999), EU-TMR Research Fellow at Athens University of Economics (2000), and he is member of the Social Sciences Committee and of Economic Policy Committee of the German Economic Association. Since 2010 he is Editor of Small Business Economics.

His articles have been published among others in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Population Economics, Research Policy and Small Business Economics. His OpEds have been published in various newspapers like Süddeutsche Zeitung, Handelsblatt, Cicero, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Tagesspiegel, Welt, Harvard Business Review, Ta Nea and Kathimerini.

Publications

Journal of Population Economics (vol. 37 (52))

Does Gender of Firm Ownership Matter? Female Entrepreneurs and the Gender Pay Gap

2024 | Alexander S. Kritikos, Mika Maliranta, Veera Nippala, Satu Nurmi
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (vol. 47 (3))

Pandemic Depression: COVID-19 and the Mental Health of the Self-Employed

2023 | Marco Caliendo, Daniel Graeber, Alexander S. Kritikos und Johannes Seebauer
Journal of Business Venturing (vol. 33(6))

Business Cycles and Start-ups across Industries: an Empirical Analysis for German Regions

2018 | Alexander Konon, Michael Fritsch, and Alexander S. Kritikos
Research Policy (vol. 45 (6))

The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Are Micro Firms Different?

2016 | Julian Baumann and Alexander S. Kritikos
Small Business Economics (vol. 42)

Personality Characteristics and the Decisions to Become and Stay Self-Employed

2014 | Marco Caliendo, Frank Fossen and Alexander S. Kritikos Personality
DIW aktuell ; 112 : Sonderausgaben zur Bundestagswahl 2025 / 2025

Sondervermögen allein reichen nicht – Fünf dringende Maßnahmen für den Standort Deutschland

2025| Anna Bindler, Geraldine Dany-Knedlik, Tomaso Duso, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Kriwoluzky
DIW Wochenbericht 9 / 2025

Und wieder eine schwarz-rote Koalition: Highway to Stagnation? Kommentar

2025| Alexander S. Kritikos
DIW Wochenbericht 40 / 2024

Unternehmerinnen können den Gender Pay Gap weitgehend reduzieren: Interview

2024| Alexander S. Kritikos, Erich Wittenberg
DIW Wochenbericht 40 / 2024

Gender Pay Gap sinkt in vielen Branchen, wenn Unternehmen im Besitz von Frauen sind

2024| Alexander S. Kritikos, Mika Maliranta, Veera Nippala, Satu Nurmi
Weitere externe Aufsätze

How Non-cognitive Skills Influence Entrepreneurial Behaviour

In: Swee-Hoon Chuah, Robert Hoffmann, Ananta Neelim (Eds.) , Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics
Cheltenham : Elgar
S. 239-242
| Alexander S. Kritikos
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

H Germania xreiazetai amesa ousiastikes metarruthmistikes tomes

In: Ta Nea (15.02.2025), S. 7 | Alexander S. Kritikos
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Neue Wege zum radikalen Bürokratieabbau für den überregulierten Standort Deutschland

In: Capital.de (28.01.2025), [Online-Artikel] | Alexander S. Kritikos
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Mehr Milei und Musk wagen? Hier kann Deutschland Bürokratie einsparen

In: Der Tagesspiegel (14.12.2024), [Online-Artikel] | Benjamin Baykal, Alexander S. Kritikos, Klaus-Heiner Röhl
Other refereed essays

Entrepreneurs and Their Impact on Jobs and Economic Growth: Updated

In: IZA World of Labor (2024), 8, 10 S. | Alexander S. Kritikos

Lectures

Vortrag

The Role of Emerging Innovation Ecosystems in Europe and Greece

Alexander S. Kritikos
Ioannina, Griechenland, 13.03.2025 - 15.03.2025
| Bridging Technology, Innovation and Culture: TechFuse Conference
Vortrag

Management Practices Matter: Enhancing Productivity in Micro and Small Firms

Alexander S. Kritikos
Berlin, 13.03.2025 - 14.03.2025
| Entrepreneurship, Impact and Doing Business in Space: 7th Creative Spark
Vortrag

Management Practices Matter: Enhancing Productivity in Micro and Small Firms

Alexander S. Kritikos
Singapur, 21.02.2025
| Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Vortrag

Zukünftige Bedarfe in der KMU-Förderung

Alexander S. Kritikos
[Online], 20.01.2025
| Fachgespräch beim Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung [Online]
Diskussionsteilnahme

Europäische Volkswirtschaften und neue Herausforderungen

Alexander S. Kritikos
[Online], 15.01.2025
| Europäische Volkswirtschaften und neue Herausforderungen: IOBE Athen [Online]

Research Projects

Research Project

Evaluation of Business Coaching for Start-ups

Completed Project| Firms and Markets
Research Project

INNOMSME

Completed Project| Entrepreneurship
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