Summary
w88 casino 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.
w88 casino 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.
Refereed journal publications since 2022
- w88 casino M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, and Carsten Schröder (2024): &w88 casino;Does Cognitive Reflection Relate to Preferences and Socio-Economic Outcomes?” Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics.
- Frank M. w88 casino, Md Mobarak Hossain, Sankar Mukhopadhyay, and Peter Toth (2024): &w88 casino;The Cost of Health Insurance and Entry into Entrepreneurship,&w88 casino; Small Business Economics.
- w88 casino M. Fossen and Levent Neyse (2024):&w88 casino;Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study with Extensions,” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 48(4), 1082-1109
- w88 casino M. Fossen, Johannes König, and Carsten Schröder (2024):&w88 casino;Risk Preference and Entrepreneurial Investment at the Top of the Wealth Distribution,”Empirical Economics66, 735-761.
- Levent Neyse, w88 casino M. Fossen, Magnus Johannesson, and Anna Dreber (2023):&w88 casino;Cognitive Reflection and 2D:4D: Evidence from a Large Population Sample,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization209, 288-307.
- Francesco Carbonero, Jeremy Davies, Ekkehard Ernst, w88 casino M. Fossen, Daniel Samaan, and Alina Sorgner (2023):&w88 casino;The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor Markets in Developing Countries: A New Method with an Illustration for Lao PDR and Urban Viet Nam,&w88 casino;Journal of Evolutionary Economics 33, 707-736.
- Robert W. Fairlie, w88 casino M. Fossen, Reid Johnsen, and Gentian Droboniku (2022):&w88 casino;Were Small Businesses More Likely to Permanently Close in the Pandemic?,”Small Business Economics 60, 1613-1629.
- Ege Can and w88 casino M. Fossen (2022):&w88 casino;The Enforceability of Non-Compete Agreements and Different Types of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Utah and Massachusetts,”Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy11(2/3), 223-252.
- Marco Caliendo, w88 casino M. Fossen, and Alexander S. Kritikos (2022):&w88 casino;Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Hire,”Industrial and Corporate Change31(3), 736-761.
- w88 casino M Fossen, Daniel Samaan, and Alina Sorgner (2022):&w88 casino;How are Patented AI, Software and Robot Technologies Related to Wage Changes in the United States?”Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 5.
- Robert W. Fairlie and w88 casino M. Fossen (2022):&w88 casino;The 2021 Paycheck Protection Program Reboot: Loan Disbursement to Employer and Nonemployer Businesses in Minority Communities,”AEA Papers and Proceedings112, 287-291.
- Robert W. Fairlie and w88 casino M. Fossen (2022): &w88 casino;The Early Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Business Sales,”Small Business Economics 58, 1853-1864.
- Robert W. Fairlie and w88 casino M. Fossen (2022):&w88 casino;Did the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program Get Disbursed to Minority Communities in the Early Stages of COVID-19?”Small Business Economics58(2), 829-842.
- w88 casino M. Fossen and Alina Sorgner (2022):&w88 casino;New Digital Technologies and Heterogeneous Wage and Employment Dynamics in the United States: Evidence from Individual-level Data,”Technological Forecasting and Social Change175, 121381.
- w88 casino M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Magnus Johannesson, and Anna Dreber (2022):&w88 casino;2D:4D and Self-Employment: A Preregistered Replication Study in a Large General Population Sample,”Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice46(1), 21-43.
Recent working papers
- Thomas Åstebro, w88 casino M. Fossen, and Cédric Gutierrez (2024): “Entrepreneurs: Clueless, Biased, Poor Heuristics, or Bayesian Machines?”IZA Discussion Paper 17231.
- w88 casino M. Fossen, Trevor McLemore, and Alina Sorgner (2024): “Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship,” IZA Discussion Paper 17055.
- Emilio Congregado, w88 casino 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 w88 casino M. Fossen (2023): “Income Taxation and Hours Worked in Different Types of Entrepreneurship,” IZA Discussion Paper 16683.
- w88 casino 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).
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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.