Frank M. Fossen

Research Fellow

University of Nevada, Reno

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Frank M. Fossen is a 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 Public Economics at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in 2010.

He received his Ph.D. in Economics with distinction in 2008 and his habilitation in 2015 from FU Berlin. Before, he had 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 more than 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, JPE Microeconomics, and Journal of Financial Intermediation.

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IZA Publications

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
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
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