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Christopher Boudreaux

Associate Professor

 

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(561) 297-3221

cboudreaux@fau.edu

 

Department of Economics

College of Business

Florida Atlantic University

777 Glades Road, OD 201B

Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA

 

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Journal Publications

 

Natural Disasters, Personal Attributes, and Social Entrepreneurship: An Attention Based View.”

With Shihao Wei, Zhan Wu, and Zhongfeng Su.

Small Business Economics 62, 2024: 1409-1427

Working Paper

 

Government investments and entrepreneurship.”

With Joao Faria, Mauricio Prado, and Laudo Ogura.

Small Business Economics 61, 2023: 1657-1670.

Working Paper

 

“Self-Employment and Eudaimonic Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Problem-and Emotion-Focused Coping.”

with Boris Nikolaev, Michael Lerman, and Brandon Mueller.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 47(6), 2023: 2121-2154.

Working Paper

 

“Taking Mental Models Seriously: Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and the Mediating Role of Socio-Cognitive Traits.”

with Daniel Bennett, David Lucas, and Boris Nikolaev.

Small Business Economics 61, 2023: 465-493.

Working Paper

 

“Gender diversity in firm ownership: Direct and indirect effects on firm-level innovation across 29 emerging economies.”

with Vartuhi Tonoyan

Research Policy 52(4), 2023

Working Paper

 

“Natural Disasters, Entrepreneurship Activity, and the Moderating Role of Country Governance.”

with Anand Jha and Monica Escaleras

Small Business Economics 60, 2023: 1483-1508.

Working Paper

 

“Populist Discourse and Entrepreneurial Action: The Role of Political Ideology and Institutions.”

with Daniel Bennett and Boris Nikolaev

Journal of International Business Studies 54, 2023: 151-181.

Working Paper

 

“Being your own boss and bossing others: The moderating effect of managing others on work meaning and autonomy for the self-employed and employees”

with Milena Nikolova and Boris Nikolaev

Small Business Economics 60, 2023: 463-483.

Working Paper

 

“Social capital and small informal business productivity: the mediating roles of financing and customer relationships”

with Anand Jha and George Clarke

Small Business Economics 59, 2022: 955-976.

Working Paper

 

“Entrepreneurial Accessibility and Eudaimonic Wellbeing”

with Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, and David Lucas

Small Business Economics 59 2022: 1061-1079

Working Paper

 

Weathering the storm: how foreign aid and institutions affect entrepreneurship activity following natural disasters

with Monica Escaleras and Anand Jha

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 46(6) 2022: 1843-1868.

Working Paper

 

National regulation, state-level policy, and local job creation in the United States: A multilevel perspective

with David Lucas

Research Policy 49(4) 2020

Working Paper

 

“Socio-Cognitive Traits and Entrepreneurship: The Moderating Role of Economic Institutions”

with Boris Nikolaev and Peter Klein

Journal of Business Venturing 34(1) 2019: 178-196

Working Paper

 

“Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Psychological Functioning”

with Boris Nikolaev and Matthew Wood

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 44(3) 2020: 557-586

Working Paper

 

Informed Voters and Electoral Outcomes: A Natural Experiment Stemming from a Fundamental Information Technological Shift

with Shane Sanders, Joel Potter, Justin Ehrlich, Justin Perline

Public choice 189 2021: 257-277.

Working Paper

 

Natural Disasters and Entrepreneurship Activity”

with Monica Escaleras and Mark Skidmore

Economics Letters 182 2019: 82-85

Working Paper

 

Employee Compensation and New Venture Performance: Does Benefit Type Matter?”

Small Business Economics 57 2021: 1453-1477

Working Paper

 

“Ethnic Diversity and Small Business Venturing”

Small Business Economics 54(1) 2020: 25-41

Working Paper

 

“Capital is not enough: Opportunity entrepreneurship and formal institutions”

with Boris Nikolaev

Small Business Economics 53(3) 2019: 709-738

Working Paper

 

The Importance of Industry to Strategic Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey

Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 20(1) 2020: 93-114

Working Paper

 

"Cross-Country Determinants of Early Stage Necessity and Opportunity-Motivated Entrepreneurship: Accounting for Model Uncertainty"

with Boris Nikolaev and Leslie Palich

Journal of Small Business Management 56(1) 2018: 243-280

Working Paper

 

"Corruption and Destructive Entrepreneurship"

with Boris Nikolaev and Randall G. Holcombe

Small Business Economics 51(1) 2018: 181-202

Working Paper

 

"Are Individualistic societies less equal? Evidence from the Parasitic Stress Theory of Value."

with Boris Nikolaev and R. Salahodjaev

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 138 2017: 30-49

Working Paper

 

"Institutional Quality and Innovation: Some Cross Country Evidence."

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 6(1) 2017: 26-40

Working Paper

 

"Jumping off of the Great Gatsby Curve: How Institutions Facilitate Entrepreneurship and Intergenerational Mobility"

Journal of Institutional Economics 10(2) 2014: 231-255

Working Paper

 

“Political Leanings and Social Capital.”

with Anand Jha and Vasabjit Banerjee

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 72 2018: 95-105

 

The relative wages of offense and defense in the NBA: a setting for win-maximization arbitrage?”

with Shane Sanders and Justin Ehrlich

Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 15(3) 2019: 213-224

 

Hospital Mergers, Acquisitions, and Regulatory Policy Implications: Price, Cost, Access, and Market Power Effects.”

with Bhavneet Walia

Managerial Finance 45(10/11) 2019: 1354-1362.

 

"Is Institutional Improvement Possible?" 

with Randall G. Holcombe

Applied Economics Letters 25(11) 2018: 758-761

Working Paper

 

"Economic Institutions and the Durability of Democracy."

with Randall G. Holcombe

Atlantic Economic Journal 45(1) 2017: 17-28

Working Paper

 

"Institutional Quality and the Wealth of Autocrats" 

with Randall G. Holcombe

European Journal of Government and Economics 6(2) 2017: 106-125.

 

"An Economic Analysis of the Trial Penalty: A Comparative Analysis of Three Alternative Trial Settings"

Journal of Economics and Finance 41(3) 2017: 553-568.

Working Paper

 

"Market Institutions and Income Inequality"

with Randall G. Holcombe

Journal of Institutional Economics 12(2) 2016: 263-276.

Working Paper

 

"The Evolutionary Effects of Democracy: in the Long Run, We are All Trading?"

The International Trade Journal 29(5) 2015: 376-396.

Working Paper

 

"Regulation and Corruption"

with Randall G. Holcombe

Public Choice 164(1-2) 2015:  75-85.

Working Paper

 

"Democratic Age and the Size of Government"

Economics Bulletin 35(3) 2015: 1531-1542

Working Paper

 

“Does Aging Make Us Grittier? Disentangling the Age and Generation Effect on Passion and Perseverance.”

with Shane Sanders, Nuwan Gedara, Bhavneet Walia, and Merril Silverstein

Journal of Data Science forthcoming.

 

"Institutional Quality and the Tenure of Autocrats"

with Randall G. Holcombe

Public Choice. 156(3-4) 2013: 409-421

Working Paper

 

"A Natural Experiment to Determine the Crowd Effect Upon Home Court Advantage."

with Shane D. Sanders and Bhavneet Walia

Journal of Sports Economics 18(7) 2017: 737-749

Working Paper

 

"Bend it like FIFA: Corruption on and off the pitch"

with Gokhan Karahan and R. Morris Coats

Managerial Finance 42(9) 2016: 866-878

Working Paper

 

"In memoriam: R. Morris Coats, a second wave public choice scholar in camouflage"

with Gary PecquetGokhan KarahanAndrew Luccasen, and Shane D. Sanders

Public Choice 166(3-4) 2016: 379-387

Working Paper

 

"What is Seen and What is Not Seen: The Dark Side of State competition for Foreign Direct Investment"

with R. Morris Coats and Earl Davis

Southern Business and Economic Journal 35(1) 2012: 35-52

Working Paper

 

"Voting and Abstaining in the U.S. Senate: Mr. Downs Goes to Washington"

with R. Morris Coats and Bhavneet Walia

Southern Business and Economic Journal 34(1-2) 2011: 55-72

Working Paper

 

Book Chapter

 

"Shattering the glass ceiling? How the institutional context mitigates the gender gap in entrepreneurship"

with Boris Nikolaev.

Working Paper

 

“Economic Freedom and Development: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive”

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