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. 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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2164
Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice: Empirical Evidence from Germany
Frank M. Fossen, Viktor Steiner
revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 36 (3), 487-513
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