Alex Coad

Alex Coad is Professor at Waseda Business School (Tokyo, Japan), and is interested in the areas of firm-level R&D investment, firm performance, entrepreneurship, strategy, and innovation policy. Alex has published over 90 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Economica, Journal of Business Venturing, Research Policy, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, and Economics Letters. According to google-scholar, Alex has over 11'000 citations and an H-index of 47. Alex is Editor at the journals 'Research Policy' (Financial Times Top 50 list of journals for Business Schools) and 'Small Business Economics', and Associate Editor for 'Industrial and Corporate Change' (Oxford University Press). Previously Alex obtained a PhD from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Sant'Anna School, Pisa, Italy, and held academic positions at the Max Planck Institute (Jena, DE), Aalborg University (Denmark), and SPRU (Univ. Sussex, UK), before being an Economic Analyst at the European Commission (IRI group, JRC-IPTS, Sevilla). In December 2016, Alex received the 2016 Nelson Prize at University of California Berkeley.

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D., Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France) and the Sant’Anna School, Pisa (Italy) (joint degree), 2007
• M.Sc., Industrial Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France), 2004
• B.A., Economics, University of Lausanne (Switzerland), 2003

Course in Charge

• Time Series Analysis
• Econometrics
• Seminar: Hot Papers in Finance
• Data Science for Management

Others

Alex has consulted for various organizations (World Bank, OECD, European Commission, etc) and has given keynote speeches around the world (Sweden, France, Belgium, South Korea, Croatia).

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Selected recent journal articles:

• Coad A., Kato M., (2020). Growth paths and routes to exit: ‘Shadow of Death’ effects for new firms in Japan. Small Business Economics, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1007/s11187-020-00341-z
• Stojčić, N., Srhoj, S., & Coad, A. (2020). Innovation procurement as capability-building: Evaluating innovation policies in eight Central and Eastern European countries. European Economic Review, 121, 103330.
• Lundmark E., Coad A., Frankish J., Storey, D. (2019). The liability of volatility and how it changes over time among new ventures. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1177/1042258719867564
• Coad A., Srhoj S., (2019). Catching gazelles with a LASSO: Big Data techniques for the prediction of High-Growth Firms. Small Business Economics, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1007/s11187-019-00203-3
• Coad A., (2019). Persistent heterogeneity of R&D intensities within sectors: Evidence and policy implications. Research Policy, 48 (1), 37-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.07.018
  
• Coad A., Daunfeldt S.-O., Halvarsson D., (2018). Bursting into life: firm growth and growth persistence by age. Small Business Economics, 50(1), 55-75. DOI: 10.1007/s11187-017-9872-8
• Coad A., (2018). Firm Age: A Survey. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 28: 13-43. DOI: 10.1007/s00191-016-0486-0