Frank M. Fossen

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University of Nevada, Reno

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Frank M. Fossen is an Associate Professor of Economics and the Charles N. Mathewson Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Department of Economics at the University of Nevada, Reno. Before joining UNR in October 2016, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics with a Focus on Public Economics at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany. He is also a Research Fellow of DIW Berlin and joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2010.

He received his PhD in Economics with distinction in 2008 and his habilitation in 2015 from Freie Universitaet Berlin. Before, he had studied at University of Karlsruhe and University of Toronto.

Frank Fossen works primarily in the fields of public and labor economics and applied microeconometrics. His main research interests are the economics of entrepreneurship and taxation. More than 20 of his research articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Economica, Economics of Education Review, European Economic Review, International Tax and Public Finance (3x), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Regional Science and Urban Economics (2x), and Small Business Economics (3x).

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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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11258
Opportunity versus Necessity Entrepreneurship: Two Components of Business Creation
Robert W. Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5566
Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2014, 42 (4), 787-814
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5459
Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Evidence from the Introduction of a "Fresh Start"
Frank M. Fossen
revised version published in: American Law and Economics Review, 2014, 16 (1), 269-312
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5370
Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (2), 394-409
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3525
The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival
Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, 76 (1), 45-63
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2168
Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey
Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 32 (2), 153-167
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