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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 Nevada, Reno. He is also a Research Fellow of IZA. Before joining the University of Nevada, 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

Recent working papers

  • Thomas Åstebro, Frank M. Fossen, and Cédric Gutierrez (2024): “Entrepreneurs: Clueless, Biased, Poor Heuristics, or Bayesian Machines?” IZA Discussion Paper 17231.
  • Frank M. Fossen, Trevor McLemore, and Alina Sorgner (2024): “Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship,” IZA Discussion Paper 17055.
  • Emilio Congregado, Frank M. Fossen, Nicola Rubino, and David Troncoso (2024): “Long-Term Effects of Shocks on New Opportunity and Necessity Entrepreneurship,” IZA Discussion Paper 16930.
  • Ege Can and Frank M. Fossen (2023): “Income Taxation and Hours Worked in Different Types of Entrepreneurship,” IZA Discussion Paper 16683.
  • Frank M. Fossen and Stela Ivanova (2021): “Obesity and Self-Employment: Health and Social Mechanisms of the Transition to Self-Employment,” Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (abstract).

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

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 WebCampus.