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Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses

Belitski, Maksim; Guenther, Christina; Kritikos, … - 2021

The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the "Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on...

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Is entrepreneurial success predictable? An ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007

This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...

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'I want to, but I also need to': start-ups resulting from opportunity and necessity

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2009

When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors … employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because pull factors provide the rationale for their decision. However, a data set …

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The impact of risk attitudes on entrepreneurial survival

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2008

rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk … entrepreneurs. The empirical results confirm that persons whose risk attitudes are in the medium range survive significantly longer … as entrepreneurs than do persons with particularly low or high risks. …

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Demand side analysis of microlending markets in Germany

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kneiding, Christoph; … - 2009

In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...

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Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2011

This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits and further personality characteristics, which...

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic background of these individuals, their education,...

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Funding self-employment: The role of consumer credit

Kneiding, Christoph; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2011

This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular instalment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal overdrafts...

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