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Working Papers

2023

1. Gender Diversity in Ownership and Firm Innovativeness in Emerging Markets. The Mediating Roles of R&D Investments and External Capital
   Papers, arXiv.org
2. Government Investments and Entrepreneurship
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Government investments and entrepreneurship, Small Business Economics, Springer (2023) View citations (3) (2023)

2022

3. Natural Disasters and Entrepreneurship Activity: the Moderating Role of Country Governance
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (5)
4. Natural Disasters, Entrepreneurship Activity, and the Moderating Role of Country Governance
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article Natural disasters, entrepreneurship activity, and the moderating role of country governance, Small Business Economics, Springer (2023) View citations (5) (2023)
5. Populist Discourse and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Political Ideology and Institutions
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (6)
   See also Journal Article Populist discourse and entrepreneurship: The role of political ideology and institutions, Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan (2023) View citations (11) (2023)

2021

6. Being Your Own Boss and Bossing Others: The Moderating Effect of Managing Others on Work Meaning and Autonomy for the Self-Employed and Employees
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (3)
   Also in GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO) (2021) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Being your own boss and bossing others: the moderating effect of managing others on work meaning and autonomy for the self-employed and employees, Small Business Economics, Springer (2023) View citations (7) (2023)
7. Entrepreneurial Accessibility, Eudaimonic Well-Being, and Inequality
   Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Entrepreneurial accessibility, eudaimonic well-being, and inequality, Small Business Economics, Springer (2022) View citations (4) (2022)
8. Social capital and small business productivity: The mediating roles of financing and customer relationships
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (2)
9. Weathering the Storm: How Foreign Aid and Institutions Affect Entrepreneurship Following Natural Disasters
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (7)

2019

10. Do private enterprises outperform state enterprises in an emerging market? The importance of institutional context in entrepreneurship
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
11. Entrepreneurship, Institutions, and Economic Growth: Does the Level of Development Matter?
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (4)
    Also in Papers, arXiv.org (2019) View citations (6)
12. The Interdependence of Hierarchical Institutions: Federal Regulation, Job Creation, and the Moderating Effect of State Economic Freedom
    Papers, arXiv.org View citations (1)
13. When does privatization spur entrepreneurial performance? The moderating effect of institutional quality in an emerging market
    Papers, arXiv.org

2018

14. Federal Regulation, Job Creation, and the Moderating Effect of State Economic Freedom
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
15. Shattering the glass ceiling? How the institutional context mitigates the gender gap in entrepreneurship
    Papers, arXiv.org View citations (1)
    Also in MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany (2018) View citations (1)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Natural disasters and economic dynamism: Evidence from U.S. entrepreneurial activity
   Contemporary Economic Policy, 2025, 43, (3), 470-494
2. When do state-owned enterprises innovate? The moderating role of pro-market institutions
   Industry and Innovation, 2025, 32, (4), 383-412
3. You are only as strong as your weakest link: Founder and community social capital and start-up survival
   Small Business Economics, 2025, 64, (4), 2133-2152

2024

4. Connecting the dots between democracy and innovation: The role of pro-market institutions and information processing
   Research Policy, 2024, 53, (8) View citations (2)
5. Natural disasters, personal attributes, and social entrepreneurship: an attention-based view
   Small Business Economics, 2024, 62, (4), 1409-1427 View citations (1)

2023

6. Being your own boss and bossing others: the moderating effect of managing others on work meaning and autonomy for the self-employed and employees
   Small Business Economics, 2023, 60, (2), 463-483 View citations (7)
   See also 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, IZA Discussion Papers (2021) View citations (3) (2021)
7. Gender diversity in firm ownership: Direct and indirect effects on firm-level innovation across 29 emerging economies
   Research Policy, 2023, 52, (4) View citations (7)
8. Government investments and entrepreneurship
   Small Business Economics, 2023, 61, (4), 1657-1670 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Government Investments and Entrepreneurship, Papers (2023) View citations (4) (2023)
9. Natural disasters, entrepreneurship activity, and the moderating role of country governance
   Small Business Economics, 2023, 60, (4), 1483-1508 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper Natural Disasters, Entrepreneurship Activity, and the Moderating Role of Country Governance, Papers (2022) View citations (5) (2022)
10. Populist discourse and entrepreneurship: The role of political ideology and institutions
    Journal of International Business Studies, 2023, 54, (1), 151-181 View citations (11)
    See also Working Paper Populist Discourse and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Political Ideology and Institutions, Papers (2022) View citations (6) (2022)
11. Self-Employment and Eudaimonic Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Problem- and Emotion-Focused Coping
    Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2023, 47, (6), 2121-2154 View citations (1)
12. Taking mental models seriously: institutions, entrepreneurship, and the mediating role of socio-cognitive traits
    Small Business Economics, 2023, 61, (2), 465-493 View citations (6)

2022

13. Entrepreneurial accessibility, eudaimonic well-being, and inequality
    Small Business Economics, 2022, 59, (3), 1061-1079 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper Entrepreneurial Accessibility, Eudaimonic Well-Being, and Inequality, Working Paper Series (2021) View citations (4) (2021)
14. Social capital and small informal business productivity: the mediating roles of financing and customer relationships
    Small Business Economics, 2022, 59, (3), 955-976 View citations (5)
15. Tilting the playing field? A discourse on state-directed innovation policy
    Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2022, 32, (5), 1575-1579 View citations (1)
16. Weathering the Storm: How Foreign Aid and Institutions Affect Entrepreneurship Activity Following Natural Disasters
    Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2022, 46, (6), 1843-1868 View citations (3)

2021

17. Employee compensation and new venture performance: does benefit type matter?
    Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, (3), 1453-1477 View citations (5)
18. Informed voters and electoral outcomes: a natural experiment stemming from a fundamental information-technological shift
    Public Choice, 2021, 189, (1), 257-277 View citations (1)

2020

19. Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Psychological Functioning
    Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2020, 44, (3), 557-586 View citations (31)
20. Ethnic diversity and small business venturing
    Small Business Economics, 2020, 54, (1), 25-41 View citations (6)
21. National regulation, state-level policy, and local job creation in the United States: A multilevel perspective
    Research Policy, 2020, 49, (4) View citations (18)
22. The Importance of Industry to Strategic Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey
    Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 2020, 20, (1), 93-114 View citations (4)

2019

23. Capital is not enough: opportunity entrepreneurship and formal institutions
    Small Business Economics, 2019, 53, (3), 709-738 View citations (52)
24. Natural disasters and entrepreneurship activity
    Economics Letters, 2019, 182, (C), 82-85 View citations (20)
25. Socio-cognitive traits and entrepreneurship: The moderating role of economic institutions
    Journal of Business Venturing, 2019, 34, (1), 178-196 View citations (136)
26. The relative wages of offense and defense in the NBA: a setting for win-maximization arbitrage?
    Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2019, 15, (3), 213-224 View citations (3)

2018

27. Corruption and destructive entrepreneurship
    Small Business Economics, 2018, 51, (1), 181-202 View citations (41)
28. Cross‐Country Determinants of Early‐Stage Necessity and Opportunity‐Motivated Entrepreneurship: Accounting for Model Uncertainty
    Journal of Small Business Management, 2018, 56, (S1), 243-280 View citations (7)
29. Is institutional improvement possible?
    Applied Economics Letters, 2018, 25, (11), 758-761 View citations (3)
30. Political leanings and social capital
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2018, 72, (C), 95-105 View citations (6)

2017

31. A Natural Experiment to Determine the Crowd Effect Upon Home Court Advantage
    Journal of Sports Economics, 2017, 18, (7), 737-749 View citations (25)
32. An economic analysis of the trial penalty: a comparative analysis of three alternative trial settings
    Journal of Economics and Finance, 2017, 41, (3), 553-568
33. Are individualistic societies less equal? Evidence from the parasite stress theory of values
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 138, (C), 30-49 View citations (36)
34. Economic Institutions and the Durability of Democracy
    Atlantic Economic Journal, 2017, 45, (1), 17-28 View citations (2)
35. Institutional quality and innovation: some cross-country evidence
    Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2017, 6, (1), 26-40 View citations (29)

2016

36. Market institutions and income inequality
    Journal of Institutional Economics, 2016, 12, (2), 263-276 View citations (15)

2015

37. Democratic age and the size of governmen
    Economics Bulletin, 2015, 35, (3), 1531-1542 View citations (1)
38. Handbook on the Geopolitics of Business by Joseph Mark S. Munoz
    The International Trade Journal, 2015, 29, (5), 454-456
39. Regulation and corruption
    Public Choice, 2015, 164, (1), 75-85 View citations (36)
40. The Evolutionary Effects of Democracy: In the Long Run, We are All Trading?
    The International Trade Journal, 2015, 29, (5), 376-396

2014

41. Jumping off of the Great Gatsby curve: how institutions facilitate entrepreneurship and intergenerational mobility
    Journal of Institutional Economics, 2014, 10, (2), 231-255 View citations (28)

2013

42. Institutional quality and the tenure of autocrats
    Public Choice, 2013, 156, (3), 409-421 View citations (17)

Chapters

2025

1. Economic Freedom and Development: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive
   Springer

2024

2. When “What Works” Does Not Work: The United States’ Mission to End Homelessness
   Springer

2022

3. Assessing the impact of natural disasters on industry gross domestic product in the United States
   Chapter 10 in Handbook on the Economics of Disasters, 2022, pp 193-207