Alexander S. Kritikos

Research Fellow

DIW Berlin

akritikos@diw.de

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Alexander S. Kritikos is member of the Executive Board and Research Director at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Berlin and Professor for Industrial and Institutional Economics at the University of Potsdam. Born in 1965, he studied economics and political sciences at the University of Munich where he received his degree as Diplom-Volkswirt. After a scholarship at the 'post graduate programme 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. His research interests are Entrepreneurship Research and Innovation, and Behavioral and Institutional Economics.

Alexander S. Kritikos was Research Fellow of the German Marshall Fund in Washington (1999) and EU-TMR Research Fellow at der Athens University of Economics (2000). He is member of the Economic Policy Committee and of the Social Sciences Committee of the German Economic Association, and Research Fellow of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg. Since 2010 he is Editor of Small Business Economics. Between 2012 and 2016, he served as Managing Editor of IZA World of Labor. His articles have been published among others in Economics Letters, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Population Economics, Research Policy, and Small Business Economics.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in 2008.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6093

Funding Self-Employment: The Role of Consumer Credit

Christoph Kneiding, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (13), 1741-1749

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5790

Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research

Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (2), 319-324

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5566

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

Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2014, 42 (4), 787-814

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5370

Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (2), 394-409

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4661

"I Want to, But I Also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity

Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Erik Lehmann and M. Keilbach, M. (eds.), From Industrial Organization to Entrepreneurship: A Tribute to David B. Audretsch, Springer, New York, 2019, 247-265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4292

Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany

Alexander S. Kritikos, Christoph Kneiding, Claas Christian Germelmann

published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009, 229 (5), 523-543

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3525

The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival

Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, 76 (1), 45-63

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3220

Start-Ups by the Unemployed: Characteristics, Survival and Direct Employment Effects

Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2010, 35(1), 71-92