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Frank Fossen

Professor of Economics, Charles N. Mathewson Professorship in Entrepreneurship

Summary

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 ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno. He is also a Research Fellow of IZA. Before joining the University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno in October 2016, he was an Assistant Professor of Public Economics at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

He received his Ph.D. in Economics with distinction in 2008 and his habilitation in 2015 from Freie Universität 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.

CV and list of publications

Refereed journal publications since 2022

  • Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, and Carsten Schröder (2024): Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics.
  • Frank M. Fossen, Md Mobarak Hossain, Sankar Mukhopadhyay, and Peter Toth (2024): “,” Small Business Economics.
  • Frank M. Fossen and Levent Neyse (2024):  Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 48(4), 1082-1109
  • Frank M. Fossen, Johannes König, and Carsten Schröder (2024):  Empirical Economics 66, 735-761.
  • Levent Neyse, Frank M. Fossen, Magnus Johannesson, and Anna Dreber (2023):  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 209, 288-307.
  • Francesco Carbonero, Jeremy Davies, Ekkehard Ernst, Frank M. Fossen, Daniel Samaan, and Alina Sorgner (2023): ” Journal of Evolutionary Economics 33, 707-736.
  • Robert W. Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen, Reid Johnsen, and Gentian Droboniku (2022): Small Business Economics 60, 1613-1629.
  • Ege Can and Frank M. Fossen (2022):  Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 11(2/3), 223-252.
  • Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, and Alexander S. Kritikos (2022):  Industrial and Corporate Change 31(3), 736-761.
  • Frank M Fossen, Daniel Samaan, and Alina Sorgner (2022):  Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 5.
  • Robert W. Fairlie and Frank M. Fossen (2022):  AEA Papers and Proceedings 112, 287-291.
  • Robert W. Fairlie and Frank M. Fossen (2022): Small Business Economics 58, 1853-1864.
  • Robert W. Fairlie and Frank M. Fossen (2022):  Small Business Economics 58(2), 829-842.
  • Frank M. Fossen and Alina Sorgner (2022):  Technological Forecasting and Social Change 175, 121381.
  • Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Magnus Johannesson, and Anna Dreber (2022):  Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 46(1), 21-43.

Recent working papers

  • Thomas Åstebro, Frank M. Fossen, and Cédric Gutierrez (2024): “Entrepreneurs: Clueless, Biased, Poor Heuristics, or Bayesian Machines?” .
  • Frank M. Fossen, Trevor McLemore, and Alina Sorgner (2024): “Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship,” .
  • Emilio Congregado, Frank M. Fossen, Nicola Rubino, and David Troncoso (2024): “Long-Term Effects of Shocks on New Opportunity and Necessity Entrepreneurship,” .
  • Ege Can and Frank M. Fossen (2023): “Income Taxation and Hours Worked in Different Types of Entrepreneurship,” .
  • Frank M. Fossen and Stela Ivanova (2021): “Obesity and Self-Employment: Health and Social Mechanisms of the Transition to Self-Employment,”  (abstract).

Most of Frank Fossen's publications can be downloaded from  or .

Teaching

Fall 2024

  • ECON 743: Applied Microeconometric Methods (graduate course) 
    • This course is taught as a compact course during the first half of the Fall Semester with double the weekly class time

Spring 2025

  • ECON 758: Empirical Public Economics (graduate course)

All syllabi and course materials are provided on .