Alexander S. Kritikos

Research Fellow

DIW Berlin

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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. 11880
Prediction Based on Entrepreneurship-Prone Personality Profiles: Sometimes Worse Than the Toss of a Coin
Alexander Konon, Alexander S. Kritikos
published in: Small Business Economics, 2019, 53 (1), 1-20
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11501
Business Cycles and Start-ups across Industries: An Empirical Analysis of German Regions
Alexander Konon, Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos
published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2018, 33(6), 742-761
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11015
Media and Occupational Choice
Alexander Konon, Alexander S. Kritikos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9734
The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Are Micro Firms Different?
Julian Baumann, Alexander S. Kritikos
published in: Research Policy, 2016, 45 (6), 1263–1274
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8818
Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?
Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alina Sorgner
published in: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2015, 67 (2), 307-333
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8739
Would I Care if I Knew? Image Concerns and Social Confirmation in Giving
Alexander S. Kritikos, Jonathan H. W. Tan
substantially revised version published as 'Influence in the Face of Impunity' in: Economics Letters, 2016, 141, 119-121.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8651
Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Alina Sorgner, Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (2), 251–272
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7852
Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry: Evidence from Germany
Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos, Katharina Pijnenburg
published in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2015, 11(2), 267-286
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7606
Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy
Benedikt Herrmann, Alexander S. Kritikos
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:14
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6326
Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany
Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alina Rusakova
published in: DIW-Economic Bulletin, 2012, 3, 17-26.
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