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 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Journal of Financial Intermediation.
Refereed journal publications since 2020
- Frank M. Fossen, Md Mobarak Hossain, Sankar Mukhopadhyay, and Peter Toth (2024): “The Cost of Health Insurance and Entry into Entrepreneurship,” Small Business Economics.
- Frank M. Fossen and Levent Neyse (2023): Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
- Frank M. Fossen, Johannes König, and Carsten Schröder (2023): 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.
- Frank M. Fossen (2021): Small Business Economics 57, 1837-1855.
- Frank M. Fossen and Alina Sorgner (2021): Journal of Business Research 125, 548-563.
- Frank M. Fossen, Ray Rees, Davud Rostam-Afschar, and Viktor Steiner (2020): International Tax and Public Finance 27(6), 1321-1363.
- Nadja Dwenger, Frank M. Fossen, and Martin Simmler (2020): Journal of Financial Intermediation 41(1).
Recent working papers
- 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, Levent Neyse, and Carsten Schroeder (2023): “Does Cognitive Reflection Relate to Preferences and Socio-Economic Outcomes?” Available at .
- 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 2023
- 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 2024
- ECON 758: Empirical Public Economics (graduate course)
All syllabi and course materials are provided on .