Dr. Christoph Starke

Academic Interests and Research

Social entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial decision making

Governmental promotion of entrepreneurship

Publications and Working Papers

Raith, M. G., Staak, T., Starke C. (2010): "The Goal Achievement of Federal Lending Programs", Small Enterprise Research, Vol. 17 (1) (Special Issue: Public Policy and Enterprise Development), 43-57 (also available as: FEMM Working Paper Series, 06019).

Starke, C. (2008): "Social Entrepreneurs, Lead Donors and the Optimal Level of Fundraising", in: Kalcsics, J., Nickel, S. (eds.): Operations Research Proceedings 2007, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 237-241.

Raith, M. G., Starke, C. (2012): "Building a Yesable Proposal to Multiple Stakeholders in Social-Business Planning", mimeo.

Burchhardt, S., Starke, C. (2010): "Target-Group and Quality Decisions of Inequity-Averse Entrepreneurs", FEMM Working Paper Series, 10011.

Starke, C. (2010): "Serving the Many or Serving the Most Needy?", FEMM Working Paper Series, 10002.

Conferences

PET 11 in Bloomington, Indiana, June, 2011

European Economic Association and the Econometric Society European Meeting (EEA-ESEM) in Barcelona, August, 2009

9th SAET Conference on Current Trends in Economics in Ischia, July, 2009

Annual Congress of the Verein für Socialpolitik in Magdeburg, September, 2009 and Bayreuth, September, 2006

73rd Annual Conference of the German Academic Association for Business Research in Kaiserslautern, June, 2011

Annual Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Conference (G-Forum) in Cologne, October, 2010 and Jena, November, 2005

Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (IECER) in Munich, February, 2011 and Regensburg, February, 2006

Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR) “Operations Research 2007” in Saarbrücken, September, 2007

Scientific Reviewing

Economics Bulletin

Teachings

Lecture and Tutorial: Bachelor lecture Venture Creation (Unternehmensgestaltung)
with M. Raith

Lecture and Tutorial: Bachelor lecture Academic Skills
with S. Burchhardt and M. Raith

Bachelor seminar Bachelor Thesis
with S. Burchhardt and M. Raith

Tutorial: Master lecture Business Decision Making

Master seminar Business-Plan Creation (Businessplan-Gestaltung)
with S. Burchhardt, M. Raith, and H. Wilker

Master seminar Negotiation Analysis (Verhandlungsanalyse)
with M. Raith

Master seminar Social-Entrepreneurship-Business Models (Social Entrepreneurship - Geschäftsmodelle)
with M. Raith

Tutorial: Undergraduate lecture Introduction to Managerial Economics (Einführung in die Betriebswirtschaftslehre)

Graduate seminar Opportunity Analysis (Gelegenheitsanalyse)
with M. Raith

Graduate seminar Business Simulation Game (Unternehmensplanspiel)
with S. Burchhardt and M. Raith

Graduate seminar Entrepreneurship Promotion in Credit Markets (Gründungsförderung über Kreditmärkte)
with M. Raith

Graduate seminar Balanced Scorecard
with A. Luhmer and M. Raith

Junior Entrepreneurs Team (Nachwuchsgruppe Entrepreneurship)
with B. Gansel, M. Raith, T. Staak, H. Wilker, and T. Zomack

MBA lecture Decision Analysis (Entscheidungsanalyse)
German MBA-Program, Academy of Economics, Moscow

MBA seminar Business Simulation Game (Unternehmensplanspiel)
with S. Halberstadt
German MBA-Program, Academy of Economics, Moscow

Education

Since November 2010

Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
Assistant Professor

November 2010

Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
Degree: Dr. rer. pol.
Title: Objectives of Social Entrepreneurs and Federal Lending Programs, and the Optimal Allocation of External Funds

May 2004

Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
Degree: Diplom-Volkswirt (Master equivalent degree in Management and Economics)
Specialization: Economic Policy

March 2003

Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
Diploma Thesis
Title: Die Förderkreditvergabe der Privatbanken - Eine mikroökonomische Analyse
with T. Staak