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Frank M. Fossen
Frank M. Fossen
Research Fellow
University of Nevada, Reno
ffossen@unr.edu External Homepage CV

Frank Fossen is a Professor of Economics and the Charles N. Mathewson Professor in Entrepreneurship in the Department of Economics at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is also the Field Editor for “Economics of Entrepreneurship” at the Journal of Business Venturing. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin in 2008 and joined IZA as a Research Fellow in 2010.

Frank Fossen’s research covers the economics of entrepreneurship, public economics, and labor economics. For example, he investigates how public policies affect entrepreneurship, the importance of credit and wealth, the impacts of innovative technologies such as AI, and the roles of economic preferences and personality in entrepreneurship. He has published more than forty papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Financial Intermediation, JPE Microeconomics, and Scientific Reports.

IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13951
Risk Preference and Entrepreneurial Investment at the Top of the Wealth Distribution
Frank M. Fossen, Johannes König, Carsten Schröder
revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2024, 66, 735–761
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13414
The Effects of Non-Compete Agreements on Different Types of Self-Employment: Evidence from Massachusetts and Utah
Ege Can, Frank M. Fossen
revised version published as 'The Enforceability of Non-Compete Agreements and Different Types of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Utah and Massachusetts' in: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2022, 11 (2/3), 223-252
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13180
2D:4D and Self-Employment Using SOEP Data: A Replication Study
Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber Almenberg
revised version published in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2022, 46 (1), 21-43
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12742
What Makes an Employer?
Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
revised version published as 'Personality characteristics and the decision to hire' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2022, 31 (3), 736-761
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12499
Entrepreneurship over the Business Cycle in the United States: A Decomposition
Frank M. Fossen
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, 1837-1855
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12242
New Digital Technologies and Heterogeneous Employment and Wage Dynamics in the United States: Evidence from Individual-Level Data
Frank M. Fossen, Alina Sorgner
revised version published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022, 175, 121381
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11258
Opportunity versus Necessity Entrepreneurship: Two Components of Business Creation
Robert W. Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen
revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2020, 48, 253-289.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8816
Public Health Insurance and Entry into Self-Employment
Frank M. Fossen, Johannes König
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (3), 647-669
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7950
Stated and Revealed Heterogeneous Risk Preferences in Educational Choice
Frank M. Fossen, Daniela Glocker
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 97, 1-25.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6819
The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees
Frank M. Fossen, Tobias J. M. Büttner
revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37, 66-84
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