Academic Interests and Research

• Social entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial decision making
• Governmental promotion of entrepreneurship

Publications, Working Papers, and Conferences

Starke, C. (2012): "Serving the Many or Serving the Most Needy?", Economics of Governance, 13(4), 365-386, (DOI: 10.1007/s10101-012-0116-8).

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: Operations Research Proceedings 2007, J. Kalcsics, S. Nickel (eds.), 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.

Conferences

PET 11 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA (June, 2011)

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

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

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

Annual Conference of the German Academic Association for Business Research in Bozen, Italy (June, 2012) and Kaiserslautern (June, 2011)

NYU-Stern Conference on Social Entrepreneurship in New York, USA (November, 2011)

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

Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (IECER) in Munich (Febuary, 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

Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Bachelor lecture "Venture Creation" ("Unternehmensgestaltung")

Bachelor lecture "Academic Skills" with S. Burchhardt and M. Raith

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

Tutorial for Master lecture "Business Decision Making"

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

Master seminar "Negotiation Analysis" ("Verhandlungsanalyse") with M. Raith

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

Tutorial for 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

German MBA Program, Academy of Economics, Moscow

Lecture "Decision Analysis" ("Entscheidungsanalyse")

"Business-Simulation Game" (Unternehmensplanspiel) with S. Halberstadt

Chemnitz University of Technology

Seminar "Negotiation Analysis" ("Verhandlungsanalyse") with T. Staak

TU Bergakademie Freiberg

Seminar "Negotiation Analysis" ("Verhandlungsanalyse") with T. Staak

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

Diploma Thesis
"Die Förderkreditvergabe der Privatbanken - Eine mikroökonomische Analyse"
with T. Staak