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Frank M. Fossen is Professor of Economics and Charles N. Mathewson Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Economics at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is also a researcher at IZA. Before he arrived at the University of Nevada, Reno in October 2016, he was an assistant professor of public economics at the Free University of Berlin in Germany.
He received his Ph.D. He received his PhD in Economics with honors in 2008 and graduated from Free University of Berlin in 2015. He previously studied at the University of Karlsruhe and the University of Toronto.
Frank Fossen's research covers the economics of entrepreneurship, public economics, labor economics, and applied microeconometrics. He has published his 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals such as 'Theory and Practice of Entrepreneurship', 'European Economic Review', 'Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations', and 'Journal of Financial Intermediation'. .
Resume and book list
Peer-reviewed journal publications since 2020
- Frank M. Fossen and Levent Neyse (2023): “Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study with Extensions.” Entrepreneurship theory and practice.
- Frank M. Fossen, Johannes König, Carsten Schröder (2023): “Risk Preference and Entrepreneurial Investment at the Top of the Wealth Distribution” empirical economics.
- Levent Neyse, Frank M. Fossen, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber (2023): “Cognitive reflection and 2D:4D: Evidence from a large population sample.” Economic Behavior and Organization Journal 209, 288-307.
- Francesco Carbonero, Jeremy Davis, Ekkehard Ernst, Frank M. Fossen, Daniel Samaan, Alina Sorgner (2023): “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor Markets in Developing Countries: A New Approach Using the Examples of Urban Areas in Laos and Vietnam”” Journal of Evolutionary Economics 33, 707-736.
- Robert W. Fairley, Frank M. Fossen, Reid Johnsen, Lindow Drobonyk (2022): “Were small businesses more likely to close permanently due to the pandemic?”small business economics 60, 1613-1629.
- Ege Kang and Frank M. Fossen (2022): “Legal Enforceability of Non-Compete Agreements and Different Types of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Utah and Massachusetts.” Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 11(2/3), 223-252.
- Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos (2022): “Personality Traits and Employment Decisions” Transforming industries and companies 31(3), 736-761.
- Frank M. Fossen, Daniel Samaan, and Alina Sogner (2022): “How Do Patented AI, Software, and Robotic Technologies Relate to U.S. Wage Change?” Frontiers of artificial intelligence Five.
- Robert W. Fairley and Frank M. Fossen (2022): “2021 Paycheck Protection Program Relaunch: Loan Disbursements to Employer and Non-Employer Businesses in Minority Communities” AEA documents and minutes 112, 287-291.
- Robert W. Fairley and Frank M. Fossen (2022): “Early Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Corporate Sales”small business economics 58, 1853-1864.
- Robert W. Fairley and Frank M. Fossen (2022): “Did the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program reach minority communities during the early stages of COVID-19?” small business economics 58(2), 829-842.
- Frank M. Fossen and Alina Sorgner (2022): “New digital technologies and disparate wage and employment dynamics in the United States: Evidence from individual-level data” Technology prediction and social change 175, 121381.
- Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber (2022): “2D:4D and self-employment: A preregistered replication study in a large general population sample.” Entrepreneurship theory and practice 46(1), 21-43.
- Frank M. Fossen (2021): “Self-employment in the U.S. Business Cycle: A Decomposition.” small business economics 57, 1837-1855.
- Frank M. Fossen and Alina Sogner (2021): “Digitalization of work and entry into entrepreneurship” business research journal 125, 548-563.
- Frank M. Fossen, Ray Rees, Davd Rustam-Afshar, Viktor Steiner (2020): “The Impact of Income Taxation on Entrepreneurial Investment: A Puzzle?” International tax and finance 27(6), 1321-1363.
- Nadja Dwenger, Frank M. Fossen, Martin Simler (2020): “Financial and actual responses of firms to credit supply shocks: Evidence from firm-bank relationships in Germany” Financial Intermediation Journal 41(1).
recent research papers
- Ege Can and Frank M. Fossen (2023): “Income taxes and working hours in different types of entrepreneurship.” IZA discussion paper 16683.
- Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neiss, Carsten Schroeder (2023): “Do cognitive reflections relate to preferences and socio-economic outcomes?” Available at SSRN.
- Frank M. Fossen, Md Mobarak Hossain, Sankar Mukhopadhyay, Peter Toth (2021): “Health Insurance Costs and Entry into Entrepreneurship”, IZA Discussion Paper 14891.
- Frank M. Fossen and Stela Ivanova (2021): “Obesity and Self-Employment: Health and Social Mechanisms in the Transition to Self-Employment”, Proceedings of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Abstract).
Most of Frank Foxen's publications can be downloaded from Google Scholar or RePEc.
teach
Fall 2023
- ECON 743: Applied Microeconometric Methods (Graduate Course)
Spring 2024
- ECON 758: Empirical Public Economics (Graduate Course)
All syllabi and course materials are provided on WebCampus.
