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Professor Contact Info (561)
297-3221 Department
of Economics College
of Business Florida
Atlantic University 777 Glades
Road, OD 201B Boca
Raton, FL 33431 USA For consulting inquiries |
Journal Publications Working
Papers Media Coverage
“Intellectual
Property Licensing Among Incorporated and Unincorporated Entrepreneurs”.
With
Rebel Cole
Small Business Economics,
forthcoming.
“Climate risk and informal entrepreneurship in emerging
economies: The moderating effects of entrepreneurs’ resources”
With Shihao Wei, Zhong-Feng Su, Yiyun-Zhang, and Pekka Stenholm.
Journal of Business Research,
forthcoming
Working Paper
The Gender Gap in the Gig Economy: Implications for
Entrepreneurship in the 21st century.”
Industrial and Corporate Change, forthcoming
Working Paper
“Natural Disasters and Economic Dynamism: Evidence
from U.S. Entrepreneurial Activity”
with Omer Bayer and Todd Yarbrough
Contemporary Economic Policy, forthcoming.
“You are Only as
Strong as Your Weakest Link: Founder
and Community Social Capital and Start-Up Survival.” with Steven Bradley, Anand Jha, and
Joao Mazzoni
Small Business Economics 64, 2025: 2133-2152.
with David Yoon and Namil Kim
Research Policy 53, 8 2024: 105057.
“When do state-owned
enterprises innovate? The moderating role of pro-market institutions”
Industry and Innovation 32, 2025: 383-412.
“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
“Government investments and entrepreneurship.”
With Joao Faria, Mauricio Prado, and Laudo Ogura.
Small Business Economics 61, 2023: 1657-1670.
with Boris Nikolaev, Michael Lerman, and Brandon Mueller.
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 47(6), 2023: 2121-2154.
with Daniel Bennett, David Lucas, and Boris Nikolaev.
Small Business Economics 61, 2023: 465-493.
with Vartuhi Tonoyan
Research Policy 52(4), 2023
“Natural Disasters, Entrepreneurship Activity, and the Moderating
Role of Country Governance.”
with Anand Jha and Monica Escaleras
Small Business Economics 60, 2023: 1483-1508.
“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.
with Milena Nikolova and Boris Nikolaev
Small Business Economics 60, 2023: 463-483.
with Anand Jha and George Clarke
Small Business Economics 59, 2022: 955-976.
“Entrepreneurial Accessibility and Eudaimonic Wellbeing”
with Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson, and David Lucas
Small Business Economics 59 2022: 1061-1079
with Monica Escaleras and Anand Jha
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 46(6) 2022: 1843-1868.
with David Lucas
Research Policy 49(4) 2020
“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
“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
with Shane Sanders, Joel Potter, Justin Ehrlich, Justin Perline
Public choice 189 2021: 257-277.
“Natural
Disasters and Entrepreneurship Activity”
with Monica Escaleras and Mark Skidmore
Economics Letters 182 2019: 82-85
“Employee
Compensation and New Venture Performance: Does Benefit Type Matter?”
Small Business Economics 57 2021:
1453-1477
“Ethnic
Diversity and Small Business Venturing”
Small Business Economics 54(1)
2020: 25-41
“Capital is not enough: Opportunity entrepreneurship and formal
institutions”
with Boris Nikolaev
Small Business Economics 53(3) 2019: 709-738
“The Importance
of Industry to Strategic Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Kauffman Firm
Survey”
Journal of Industry,
Competition and Trade 20(1) 2020: 93-114
with Boris Nikolaev and Leslie Palich
Journal of Small
Business Management 56(1) 2018: 243-280
"Corruption and Destructive Entrepreneurship"
with Boris Nikolaev and Randall G. Holcombe
Small Business Economics 51(1) 2018: 181-202
"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
"Institutional Quality and Innovation:
Some Cross Country Evidence."
Journal of Entrepreneurship
and Public Policy 6(1)
2017: 26-40
Journal of Institutional
Economics 10(2) 2014: 231-255
“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
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
"Economic Institutions and the Durability of Democracy."
with Randall G. Holcombe
Atlantic Economic
Journal 45(1)
2017: 17-28
"Institutional Quality and the Wealth of Autocrats"
with Randall G. Holcombe
European Journal of
Government and Economics 6(2) 2017: 106-125.
Journal of Economics and
Finance 41(3)
2017: 553-568.
"Market Institutions and Income
Inequality"
with Randall G. Holcombe
Journal of Institutional
Economics 12(2)
2016: 263-276.
"The Evolutionary Effects of Democracy: in
the Long Run, We are All Trading?"
The International Trade
Journal 29(5) 2015: 376-396.
with Randall G. Holcombe
Public Choice 164(1-2) 2015: 75-85.
"Democratic Age and the Size of
Government"
Economics Bulletin 35(3) 2015: 1531-1542
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
"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
"Bend it like FIFA: Corruption on and
off the pitch"
with Gokhan Karahan and R. Morris Coats
Managerial Finance 42(9) 2016: 866-878
"In memoriam: R. Morris Coats, a second
wave public choice scholar in camouflage"
with Gary Pecquet, Gokhan Karahan, Andrew Luccasen, and Shane D.
Sanders
Public Choice 166(3-4) 2016: 379-387
with R. Morris Coats and Earl
Davis
Southern Business and
Economic Journal 35(1)
2012: 35-52
"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
Book Chapter
"Shattering
the glass ceiling? How the institutional context mitigates the gender gap in
entrepreneurship"
with
Boris Nikolaev.
“Economic
Freedom and Development: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive”