Christopher Boudreaux

Education

• PhD (2014) Economics, Florida State University
• MS (2011) Economics, Florida State University
• BS (2009) Nicholls State University

Research Interests

• Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Economic Growth, Dynamism, and Competitiveness; Business Economics / Industrial Organization; New Institutional Economics

Intellectual Contributions

• Wei, Shihao; Boudreaux, Christopher; Su, Zhongfeng; Wu, Zhan. (2024). Natural Disasters, Personal Attributes, and Social Entrepreneurship: An Attention Based View, Small Business Economics, 62(4), 1409-1427
• Faria, Joao Ricardo; Prado, Mauricio; Ogura, Laudo; Boudreaux, Christopher. (2023). Government investments and entrepreneurship, Small Business Economics, 61(4), 1657-1670
• Bennett, Daniel; Lucas, David; Nikolaev, Boris; Boudreaux, Christopher. (2023). Taking Mental Models Seriously: Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and the Mediating Role of Socio-Cognitive Traits, Small Business Economics, 61, 465-493
• Nikolaev, Boris; Lerman, Michael; Mueller, Brandon; Boudreaux, Christopher. (2023). Self-Employment and Eudaimonic Well-being: The Mediating Role of Problem- and Emotion-Focused Coping, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47(6), 2121-2154
• Tonoyan, Vartuhi; Boudreaux, Christopher. (2023). Gender Diversity in Firm Ownership: Direct and Indirect Effects on Firm-Level Innovation Across 29 Emerging Economies, Research Policy, 52(4), Article: 104716
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Jha, A.; Escaleras, Monica. (2023). Natural disasters, entrepreneurship activity, and the moderating role of country governance, Small Business Economics, 60(4), 1483-1508
• Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris; Boudreaux, Christopher. (2023). 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, 60, 463-483
• Bennett, Daniel; Boudreaux, Christopher; Nikolaev, Boris. (2023). Populist discourse and entrepreneurship: The role of political ideology and institutions, Journal of International Business Studies, 54(1), 151-181
• Boudreaux, Christopher. (2022). Tilting the playing field? A discourse on state-directed innovation policy. (The Journal of Evolutionary Economics), Springer, 367 pages
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Jha, A.; Escaleras, Monica. (2022). Weathering the storm: How foreign aid affects entrepreneurial activity following natural disasters, Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice, 46(6), 1843-1868
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus; Lucas, David. (2022). Entrepreneurial accessibility, eudaimonic well-being, and inequality, Small Business Economics, 59(3), 1061-1079
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Clarke, George; Jha, Anand. (2022). Social capital and small informal business productivity: the mediating roles of financing and customer relationships, Small Business Economics, 59(3), 955-976
• Boudreaux, Christopher. (2021). Employee Compensation and New Venture Performance: Does Benefit Type Matter?, Small Business Economics, 57, 1453-1477
• Sanders, Shane; Potter, Joel; Ehrlich, Justin; Perline, Justin; Boudreaux, Christopher. (2021). Informed Voters and Electoral Outcomes: A Natural Experiment Stemming from a Fundamental Information Technological Shift, Public Choice, 189, 257-277
• Walia, Bhavneet; Boudreaux, Christopher. (2021). The Cost of Player Injuries to Professional Sports Leagues and Other Sport Organizations, Managerial Finance, 47(6), 779-788
• Ehrlich, Justin; Boudreaux, Christopher; Boudreaux, James; Sanders, Shane. (2020). An Analysis of an Alternative Pythagorean Expected Win Percentage Model Applications Using Major League Baseball Team Quality Simulations, Mathematics and Sports, 1(1), doi.org/10.7910/DVN/X4ANKJ
• Boudreaux, Christopher. (2020). Ethnic Diversity and Small Business Venturing, Small Business Economics, 54(1), 25-41
• Boudreaux, Christopher. (2020). The Importance of Industry to Strategic Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 20(1), 93-114
• Nikolaev, Boris; Boudreaux, Christopher; Wood, Matthew. (2020). Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Psychological Functioning, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 44(3), 557-586
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Lucas, David. (2020). National Regulation, Regional Policy, and Local Job Creation in the United States: A Multilevel Perspective, Research Policy, 49(4)
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Nikolaev, Boris. (2019). Captial is Not Enough: Opportunity Entrepreneurship and Formal Institutions, Small Business Economics, 53(3), 709-738
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Nikolaev, Boris. (2019). Exploring Gender Differences in Entrepreneurship: How the Regulatory Environment Mitigates Differences in Early-Stage Growth Aspirations (forthcoming), Edward Elgar Publishing, U.K.
• Walia, B.; Boudreaux, Christopher. (2019). Hospital Mergers, Acquisitions, and Regulatory Policy Implications: Price, Cost, Access, and Market Power Effects, Managerial Finance, 45(10/11), 1354-1362
• Ehrlich, Justin; Boudreaux, Christopher; Sanders, Shane. (2019). The Relative Wages of Offense and Defense in the NBA: A setting for Win-Maximization Arbitrage?, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sport, 15(3), 213-224
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Escaleras, Monica; Skidmore, M.. (2019). Natural Disasters and Entrepreneurship Activity, Economics Letters, 182, 82-85
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Nikolaev, Boris; Klein, Peter. (2019). Socio-Cognitive Traits and Entrepreneurship: The Moderating Role of Economic Institutions, Journal of Business Venturing, 34(1), 178-196
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Holcombe, R.. (2018). Is Institutional Improvement Possible?, Applied Economics Letters, 25(11), 758-761
• Jha, A.; Boudreaux, Christopher; Banarjee, V.. (2018). Political Leanings and Social Capital, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 72(C), 95-105
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Nikolaev, Boris; Holcombe, Randall. (2018). Corruption and Destructive Entrepreneurship, Small Business Economics, 51(1), 181-202
• Nikolaev, B.; Boudreaux, Christopher; Palich, L.. (2018). Cross-Country Determinants of Early Stage Necessity and Opportunity-Motivated Entrepreneurship: Accounting for Model Uncertainty, Journal of Small Business Management
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Sanders, S.D.; Walia, B.. (2017). A Natural Experiment to Determine the Crowd Effect upon Home Court Advantage?, Journal of Sports Economics, 18(7), 737-749
• Boudreaux, Christopher. (2017). An Economic Analysis of the Trial Penalty: A Comparative Analysis of Three Alternative Trial Settings, Journal of Economics and Finance, 41(3), 553-568
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Nikolaev, B.; Salahodjaev, R.. (2017). Are Indiviualistic societies less equal? Evidence from the Parsitic Stress Theory of Value, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 138, 30-49
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Holcombe, R.. (2017). Economic Institutions and the Durability of Democracy, Atlantic Economic Journal, 45(1), 17-28
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Nikolaev, Boris. (2017). Entrepreneurial Traits, Institutions, and the Motivation to Engage in Entrepreneurship, Academy of Management Proceedings
• Boudreaux, Christopher. (2017). Institutional Quality and Innovation: Some Cross Country Evidence, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 6(1), 26-40
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Holcombe, R.. (2017). Institutional Quality and the Wealth of Autocrats, European Journal of Government and Economics, 6(2), 106-125
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Karahan, G.; Coats, R.. (2016). Bend it like FIFA: Corruption on and off the pitch, Managerial Finance, 42(9), 866-878
• Boudreaux, Christopher. (2016). Economic Behavior, Economic Freedom, and Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Pecquet, G.M.; Karahan, G.; Luccasen, R.; Sanders, S.. (2016). In memoriam: R. Morris Coats, a second wave public choice scholar in camouflage, Public Choice, 166(3-4), 379-387
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Holcombe, R.. (2016). Market Institutions and Income Share of the Economic Elite, Journal of Institutional Economics, 12(2), 263-276
• Boudreaux, Christopher. (2015). Democratic Age and the Size of Government, Economics Bulletin, 35(2)
• Boudreaux, Christopher. (2015). Handbook on the Geopolitcs of Business, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Holcombe, R.. (2015). Regulation and Corruption, Public Choice, 164(1-2), 75-85
• Boudreaux, Christopher. (2015). The evolutionary effects of democracy: In the long run, we are all trading?, Journal of Institutional Economics, 29(5), 376-396
• Boudreaux, Christopher. (2014). Jumping off of the Great Gatsby Curve: How Institutions Facilitate Entrepreneurship and Intergenerational Mobility, Journal of Institutional Economics, 10(2), 231-256
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Holcombe, R.. (2013). Institutional Quality and the Tenure of Autocrats, Public Choice, 156(3-4), 409-421
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Coats, R.; Davis, E.. (2012). What is Seen and What is Not Seen: The Dark Side of State Competition for Foreign Direct Investment, Southern Business and Economic Journal, 35(1), 35-52
• Boudreaux, Christopher; Coats, R.; Walia, B.. (2011). Voting and Abstaining in the U.S. Senate: Mr. Downs Goes to Washington, Southern Business and Economic Journal, 34(1-2), 55-72
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