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Main fields of research

• Determinants of Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
• Personality Traits and Creativity
• Entrepreneurial career development

CURRICULUM VITAE

Publications

• "Selbständigkeit in Deutschland: Der Trend zeigt seit langem nach oben", in DIW Wochenbericht, #4-2012 (with Michael Fritsch and Alexander Kritikos) Berlin, 2012. 
• Item "Von (fast) Null auf Hundert: Selbstständigkeit nach der Wiedervereinigung" within the dossiers “Lange Wege der Deutschen Einheit“ der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (with Michael Fritsch, Michael Wyrwich and Yvonne Schindele), Jena, 2011.
• „Gründung und Selbständigkeit“, in „Die Welt in Zahlen 2011“, brand eins Verlag, Hamburg, 2010 (with Alexander Kritikos and Michael Fritsch)  
• Identification of Business Cycle Phases using the TRAMO/SEATS Methodology, Moscow, 2006, MIEM (TU).

WORKING PAPERS

Fritsch, Michael, Alexander Kritikos, and Alina Rusakova: Who starts a business and Who is self-employed in Germany?, DIW Berlin, Discussion papers, #1184-2012 (pdf-link).

Fritsch, Michael and Alina Rusakova: Personality traits, Self-Employment, and Professions, Jena Economic Research Papers, # 075- 2010 (pdf-link).

Fritsch, Michael and Alina Rusakova: Entrepreneurship and Cultural Creativity, Jena Economic Research Papers, # 001- 2010 (pdf-link).

Conferences and Workshops

• BABSON Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University, Forth Worth, Texas, USA, June 06-09, 2012, Paper presentation.
• The 10th Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurial Research (IECER), University of Regensburg, Germany, February 15-17, 2011, Paper presentation.

• DRUID Summer Conference 2011 on Innovation, Strategy, and Structure: Organizations, Institutions, Systems and Regions, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, June 15-17, 2011, Paper presentation.

• EMAEE 2011: 7th European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, February 14-16, 2011, Paper presentation.

• Workshop "Offene Beschäftigungssysteme – Betriebliche Personal- und individuelle Arbeitsmarktstrategien“, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, December 6-7, 2010, Paper presentation (with Michael Fritsch and Elisabeth Bublitz).

• 4th Jena Summer Academy on “Innovation and Uncertainty”, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics and Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, July 25th - August 8th, 2010, Paper presentation.
• DRUID Summer Conference 2010 on Opening Up Innovation: Strategy, Organization and Technology, Imperial College London Business School, June 16-18, 2010, Paper presentation.
• First Joint DIW/IZA Workshop on Entrepreneurship Research, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, February 25-26, 2010, Paper presentation (with Michael Fritsch) and discussion.
• Brown-Bag Seminar at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, November 11th, 2009. Paper presentation.
• 3rd Jena Summer Academy on “Innovation and Uncertainty”, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics and Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany, July 26th - August 8th, 2009. Paper presentation.
• Max Planck School on Entrepreneurship Research, at the Max Planck institute of Economics, Jena, Germany, Juli 20 – 24, 2009.
• Workshop on “Introduction to Survival Analysis and Event History Modeling”, Friedrich Schiller University (Dep. of Psychology), October 31st, 2009, Jena, Germany.
• Workshop on “Optimal Matching” of the Collaborative Research Center 580 (SFB 580), May 8th, 2009.
• Introduction into Data Analysis with Socio-Economic Panel Data, DIW, Berlin (2009)
• MIEM (TU) - Scientific and Technical Conference of Students and Young Researchers, 2006, Moscow, Russia, Paper Presentation.

Teaching

• Entrepreneurship
• Advanced Studies in Entrepreneurship

REFEREEING

• Journal of Small Business Economics
• Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID)