David Lucas

David Lucas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises.

Research Topics

• Regulation and Entrepreneurship
• Economic Development
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Homelessness

Entrepreneurship Policy, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth, Institutions, Social Entrepreneurship

Working Papers

• "Public Sponsorship and the Adoption of New Practices in the Homeless Shelter Industry", (with Minniti, M.)

Selected Publications

• "The political economy of the collaborative innovation bloc", Review of Austrian Economics, 32(4), 331--338, 2019
• "Visions of entrepreneurship policy", Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 7(4), 336--356, 2018 (with Fuller, C., Piano, E., Coyne, C.)
• "When warm and cold don’t mix: The implications of climate for the determinants of homelessness", Journal of Housing Economics, 41, 45--56, 2018 (with Corinth, K.)
• "Bounties, grants, and market-making entrepreneurship", The Independent Review, 22(4), 507--528, 2018 (with Fuller, C.)
• "Evidence-based policy as public entrepreneurship", Public Management Review, 20(11), 1602--1622, 2018
• "Rooking the state", International Review of Law and Economics, 55, 12--20, 2018 (with Fuller, C., Piano, E.)
• "The Impact of Federal Homelessness Funding on Homelessness", , 84(2), 548--576, 2017
• "Federal homelessness policy: A robust political economy approach", The Review of Austrian Economics, 30(3), 277--303, 2017
• "Pricing Political Rallies", Economic Affairs, 37(2), 271--278, 2017 (with Fuller, C.)
• "Entrepreneurship: Productive, unproductive, and destructive—Relative to what?", Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 7, 45--49, 2017 (with Fuller, C.)
• "Regulation, Economic Freedom, and Entrepreneurial Job Creation: A Multilevel Governance Approach", Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (with Boudreaux, C.)