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The cost of health insurance and entry into entrepreneurship

Fossen, Frank M.; Hossain, Md Mobarak; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2021

entrepreneurship. The literature argues that the guaranteed availability of health insurance introduced by the Affordable Care Act (ACA …) of 2010 could reduce this barrier to entrepreneurship and thereby increase entrepreneurial activity. In this paper, we …

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The effects of non-compete agreements on different types of self-employment: evidence from Massachusetts and Utah

Can, Ege; Fossen, Frank M. - 2020

-employment into self-employment with incorporated businesses (as a proxy for entrepreneurship) and self-employment with unincorporated …

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Entrepreneurship over the business cycle in the United States: a decomposition

Fossen, Frank M. - 2019

entry strongly applies to unincorporated entrepreneurship, but only weakly to incorporated entrepreneurship. This highlights … the association of unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship with necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship …

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2D:4D and self-employment using SOEP data : a replication study

Fossen, Frank M.; Neyse, Levent; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2020

The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...

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What makes an employer?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2019

As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important …

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Risk preference and entrepreneurial investment at the top of the wealth distribution

Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2020

We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using novel survey data from the top of the wealth distribution, which have been added to the 2019 German Socio-economic Panel Study. The data include private wealth balance sheets,...

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Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid; … - 2022

Previous estimates indicate that COVID-19 led to a large drop in the number of operating businesses operating early in the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned into permanent closures and whether small businesses were disproportionately hit. This paper...

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Income taxation and hours worked in different types of entrepreneurship

Can, Ege; Fossen, Frank M. - 2023

We investigate the effect of personal income tax (PIT) rates on the number of hours entrepreneurs work weekly. Using the rotating panel data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey from 2003 to 2019, we estimate instrumental variable regressions in first...

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Artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship

Fossen, Frank M.; McLemore, Trevor; Sorgner, Alina - 2024

This survey reviews emerging but fast-growing literature on impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on entrepreneurship …, providing a resource for researchers in entrepreneurship and neighboring disciplines. We begin with a review of definitions of … impacts of AI on en-trepreneurship. Against this background, we present and discuss existing theory and evidence on how AI …

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Entrepreneurs : clueless, biased, poor heuristics, or Bayesian machines?

Åstebro, Thomas; Fossen, Frank M.; Gutierrez, Cédric - 2024

Entrepreneurship scholars are interested in understanding and describing how entrepreneurs make decisions under …

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