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Frank Fossen

Professor of Economics, Charles N. Mathewson Professorship in Entrepreneurship

Summary

Frank Fossen is a Professor of Economics and the Charles N. Mathewson Professor in Entrepreneurship in the Department of Economics at the 91·çÃùÄñ³ª. He is also the Field Editor for “Economics and Entrepreneurship” at the Journal of Business Venturing. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin in 2008.

Frank Fossen’s research covers the economics of entrepreneurship, public economics, and labor economics. For example, he investigates how public policies affect entrepreneurship, the importance of credit and wealth, the impacts of innovative technologies such as AI, and the roles of economic preferences and personality in entrepreneurship. He has published more than forty 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 (2025):  Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics 3(2) , 303-343.
  • Frank M. Fossen, Md Mobarak Hossain, Sankar Mukhopadhyay, and Peter Toth (2025): “,” Small Business Economics 64, 383-405.
  • Frank M. Fossen, Trevor McLemore, and Alina Sorgner (2024):  Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship 20(8), 781-904. Preprint available as .
  • 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

  • Md Mobarak Hossain, Frank M. Fossen, and Sankar Mukhopadhyay (2025): “An Estimated Model of Employer and Non-Employer Entrepreneurship,” .
  • Robert Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen, Andrew C. Johnston, and Ke Lyu (2025): “The Effects of Local Taxes and Incentives on Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Universe of U.S. Startups,” .
  • Yifan Yang, Magnus Johannesson, Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, and Felix Holzmeister (2025): “Heterogeneity in Gender Differences in Self-reported Political Preferences, Trust, and Well-being across 39 European Countries,” .
  • Yifan Yang, Magnus Johanneson, Anna Dreber, Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, and Felix Holzmeister (2025): “Does Having Daughters Affect Political Preferences? A High-powered Meta-analysis of Many Surveys,” .
  • Thomas Åstebro, Frank M. Fossen, and Cédric Gutierrez (2024): “Entrepreneurs: Clueless, Biased, Poor Heuristics, or Bayesian Machines?” .
  • 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 2025

  • ECON 102: Principles of Microeconomics (undergraduate course)
  • ECON 743: Applied Microeconometric Methods (graduate course)

Spring 2026

  • ECON 758: Empirical Public Economics (graduate course)
  • ECON/ENT 473/673: Economics of Entrepreneurship (undergraduate and graduate course)

All syllabi and course materials are provided on .