CHRISTOPHER BOUDREAUX

 

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Research

 

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Publications:

 

1.      “Feeling the Bern? Populism and Entrepreneurial Action: The Role of Pro-Market Institutions and Political Ideology.” (with Daniel Bennett and Boris Nikolaev) Journal of International Business Studies forthcoming -pdf-

2.      “Natural Disasters, Entrepreneurship Activity, and the Moderating Role of Country Governance.” (with Anand Jha and Monica Escaleras) Small Business Economics forthcoming -pdf-

3.      “Entrepreneurial Accessibility and Eudaimonic Wellbeing” (with Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, and David Lucas) Small Business Economics forthcoming -pdf-

4.      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 forthcoming -pdf-

5.      “The Impact of Social Capital on SME’s Productivity: Evidence from Zambia” (with Anand Jha and George Clarke) Small Business Economics forthcoming –pdf-

6.      Weathering the storm: how foreign aid and institutions affect entrepreneurship activity following natural disasters” (with Monica Escaleras, and Anand Jha)” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice forthcoming -pdf-

7.      National regulation, state-level policy, and local job creation in the United States: A multilevel perspectiveResearch Policy (with David Lucas) 49(4) 2020 – pdf-

8.      “Socio-Cognitive Traits and Entrepreneurship: The Moderating Role of Economic Institutions” Journal of Business Venturing (with Boris Nikolaev and Peter Klein) 34(1) 2019: 178-196. –pdf-

9.      “Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Psychological Functioning” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (with Boris Nikolaev and Matthew Wood) 44(3) 2020: 557-586 -pdf-

10.  Informed Voters and Electoral Outcomes: A Natural Experiment Stemming from a Fundamental Information Technological ShiftPublic Choice (with Shane Sanders, Joel Potter, Justin Ehrlich, Justin Perline) 189 2021: 257-277. -pdf-

11.  Natural Disasters and Entrepreneurship Activity” Economics Letters 182 2019: 82-85. –pdf-

12.  Employee Compensation and New Venture Performance: Does Benefit Type Matter?” Small Business Economics 57 2021: 1453-1477. -pdf-

13.  “Ethnic Diversity and Small Business Venturing” Small Business Economics 54(1) 2020: 25-41. –pdf-

14.  “Capital is not enough: Opportunity entrepreneurship and formal institutions” (with Boris Nikolaev) Small Business Economics 53(3) 2019: 709-738 –pdf-

15.  The Importance of Industry to Strategic Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Kauffman Firm SurveyJournal of Industry, Competition and Trade 20(1) 2020: 93-114 –pdf-

16.  "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. -pdf-

17.  "Corruption and Destructive Entrepreneurship" (with Boris Nikolaev and Randall G. HolcombeSmall Business Economics 51(1) 2018: 181-202. -pdf-

18.  "Are Individualistic societies less equal? Evidence from the Parasitic Stress Theory of Value."(with Boris Nikolaev and R. SalahodjaevJournal of Economic Behavior & Organization 138 2017: 30-49. -pdf-

19.  "Institutional Quality and Innovation: Some Cross Country Evidence." Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 6(1) 2017: 26-40. -pdf

20.  "Jumping off of the Great Gatsby Curve: How Institutions Facilitate Entrepreneurship and Intergenerational Mobility" Journal of Institutional Economics 10(2) 2014: 231-255. -pdf-

21.  “Political Leanings and Social Capital.” (with Anand Jha and Vasabjit Banerjee) Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 72 2018: 95-105

22.  The relative wages of offense and defense in the NBA: a setting for win-maximization arbitrage?” (with Shane D. Sanders and Justin Ehrlich) Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 15(3) 2019: 213-224

23.  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.

24.  "Is Institutional Improvement Possible?" (with Randall G. HolcombeApplied Economics Letters 25(11) 2018: 758-761. -pdf-

25.  "Economic Institutions and the Durability of Democracy." (with Randall G. Holcombe) Atlantic Economic Journal 45(1) 2017: 17-28. -pdf-

26.  "Institutional Quality and the Wealth of Autocrats" (with Randall G. Holcombe) European Journal of Government and Economics 6(2) 2017: 106-125.

27.  "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. -pdf-

28.  "Market Institutions and Income Inequality" (with Randall G. HolcombeJournal of Institutional Economics 12(2) 2016: 263-276. -pdf-

29.  "The Evolutionary Effects of Democracy: in the Long Run, We are All Trading?" The International Trade Journal 29(5) 2015: 376-396. -pdf-

30.  "Regulation and Corruption" (with Randall G. HolcombePublic Choice 164(1-2) 2015:  75-85. -pdf-

31.  "Democratic Age and the Size of Government" Economics Bulletin 35(3) 2015: 1531-1542. -pdf-

32.  “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.

33.  "Institutional Quality and the Tenure of Autocrats" (with Randall G. HolcombePublic Choice. 156(3-4) 2013: 409-421. -pdf-

34.  "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. -pdf-

35.  "Bend it like FIFA: Corruption on and off the pitch" (with Gokhan Karahan and R. Morris CoatsManagerial Finance 42(9) 2016: 866-878. -pdf-

36.  "In memoriam: R. Morris Coats, a second wave public choice scholar in camouflage" (with Gary PecquetGokhan KarahanAndrew Luccasen, and Shane D. SandersPublic Choice 166(3-4) 2016: 379-387. -pdf-

37.  "What is Seen and What is Not Seen: The Dark Side of State competition for Foreign Direct Investment" (with R. Morris Coats and Earl DavisSouthern Business and Economic Journal 35(1) 2012: 35-52. -pdf-

38.  "Voting and Abstaining in the U.S. Senate: Mr. Downs Goes to Washington" (with R. Morris Coats and Bhavneet WaliaSouthern Business and Economic Journal 34(1-2) 2011: 55-72. -pdf-

 

  Book Chapter

 

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

 

 Working Papers

 

Connecting the dots between democracy and innovation: The mediating role of economic freedom and press freedom” -pdf-

 

“Natural Disasters and Economic Dynamism: Evidence from U.S. Entrepreneurial Activity” -pdf-

 

“Innovation of POEs and SOEs: The Moderating Role of Marketization” -pdf-

 

“Institutions, entrepreneurship, and growth: Does the level of development matter?” –pdf-

 

 

 

Selected Media Coverage:

·         Measures to tackle black economy are suspiciously totalitarian - (pdf) The Sydney Morning Herald, May 2018

·         The Selfish Way to Combat Inequality - (pdf) The Hindu, September 2017

·         The Senate is turning into the House  -  (pdf) Boston Globe, August 2015

·         Root, Root, Root for the Home Team -  (pdf) Pacific Standard Magazine, September 2015