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Prof. Dr. Alexander S. Kritikos

Prof. Dr. Alexander S. Kritikos

Member of the Executive Board

Head of Entrepreneurship Research Group

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.

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Publications

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 Population Economics volume 34

COVID-19: a crisis of the female self-employed

2021 | Daniel Graeber, Alexander S. Kritikos, Johannes Seebauer
Journal of Business Venturing 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 45

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

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

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

2014 | Marco Caliendo, Frank Fossen and Alexander S. Kritikos Personality
Diskussionspapiere 2030 / 2023

Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Performance of Start-Ups

2023| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Daniel Rodriguez, Claudia Stier
Diskussionspapiere 2029 / 2022

The Influence of Start-up Motivation on Entrepreneurial Performance

2022| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Claudia Stier
Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 2 / 2022

Vorwort

2022| Alexander S. Kritikos
DIW Wochenbericht 45 / 2022

"Doppelwumms": Wo bleiben Anreize für Investitionen? Kommentar

2022| Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Kriwoluzky
DIW Wochenbericht 44 / 2022

Künftig solle es nur noch ein Programm für Selbstständige geben – transparent und verlässlich: Interview

2022| Alexander S. Kritikos, Erich Wittenberg
Externe referierte Aufsätze

Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Performance of Start-Ups

In: Small Business Economics im Ersch. (2023), [Online first: 2023-08-04] | Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Daniel Rodríguez, Claudia Stier
Externe referierte Aufsätze

SOEP-LEE2: Linking Surveys on Employees to Employers in Germany

In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (2023), im Ersch. [Online first: 2023-07-2023] | Wenzel Matiaske, Torben Dall Schmidt, Christoph Halbmeier, Martina Maas, Doris Holtmann, Carsten Schröder, Tamara Böhm, Stefan Liebig, Alexander S. Kritikos
Externe referierte Aufsätze

German Financial State Aid during Covid-19 Pandemic: Higher Impact among Digitalized Self-Employed

In: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development im Ersch. (2023), [Online first: 2023-04-09] | Irene Bertschek, Jörn Block, Alexander S. Kritikos, Caroline Stiel
Externe referierte Aufsätze

The Influence of Start-Up Motivation on Entrepreneurial Performance

In: Small Business Economics im Ersch. (2023), [online first: 2023-03-13] | Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Claudia Stier
Externe Monographien

Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Performance of Start-Ups

Potsdam: CEPA, 2023, 41 S.
(CEPA Discussion Papers ; 61)
| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Daniel Rodriguez, Claudia Stier

Lectures

Vortrag

Female Entrepreneurs and the Gender Pay Gap

Alexander S. Kritikos, Mika Maliranta, Satu Nurmi
Warschau, Polen, 05.07.2023 - 09.07.2023
| AIB 2023 Warsaw: The Academy of International Business
Vortrag

Access to Digital Finance: Implications for the Behavior of Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Regulators

Alexander S. Kritikos, Saul Estrin, Susanna Khavul, Jonas Löher
Warschau, Polen, 05.07.2023 - 09.07.2023
| AIB 2023 Warsaw: The Academy of International Business
Vortrag

Female Entrepreneurs and the Gender Pay Gap

Alexander S. Kritikos
Oxford, Großbritannien, 30.06.2023
| Oxford Residence Week for Entrepreneurship Scholars: University of Oxford
Vortrag

Effekte der Pandemie auf Selbstständige

Alexander S. Kritikos
23.06.2023
| Stabilisierung selbstständiger Erwerbstätigkeit: Workshop des BMAS
Vortrag

Female Entrepreneurs and the Gender Pay Gap

Alexander S. Kritikos
Paris, Frankreich, 02.06.2023 - 03.06.2023
| Family Business, Sustainable Commerce and Industries: Research Forum ICD Business School Paris

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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