Simon C. Parker
Associate Professor
Director, Driving Growth Through Entrepreneurship & Innovation Cross-Enterprise Leadership Research Centre
MBA '80 Professor in Entrepreneurship

Professor Parker is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Richard Ivey School of Business. He is a Research Professor at the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany; a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour, IZA, in Bonn, Germany; and a Fellow of the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Small Business Economics, a Co-editor of the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, and is a member of the editorial boards of the International Small Business Journal and Foundations & Trends in Entrepreneurship. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in economics, entrepreneurship and management journals and has edited several books on the Economics of Entrepreneurship. His book, The Economics of Self-employment and Entrepreneurship, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2004; an updated version entitled The Economics of Entrepreneurship will appear in 2009. He is regularly invited as a keynote speaker at international conferences and workshops.

Prior to joining Ivey, Professor Parker was Head of Department of Economics & Finance and was a full Professor of Economics at Durham Business School in England. Professor Parker was a visiting professor and Lansdowne Fellow at the University of Victoria, Canada. He teaches various classes in the Entrepreneurship group at Ivey and has previously taught a wide variety of courses in economics, finance, econometrics, statistics and entrepreneurship to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK.

PROGRAM TEACHING

New Venture Creation, HBA
Managing High Growth Companies, HBA

RESEARCH/COURSE DEVELOPMENT

The economics of entrepreneurship

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• “What happens to gazelles?” (with A. van Witteloostuijn and D. J. Storey), Small Business Economics, forthcoming 2010.
• “Intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship?”, Journal of Business Venturing, forthcoming 2010.
• "Contracting out, entrepreneurship and public policy", Scottish Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming 2010.
• "Status and entrepreneurship" (with C. Mirjam van Praag), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, forthcoming.
• "A general contingency measure of fit" (with A. van Witteloostuijn), Organization Science, forthcoming.
• “Entrepreneurship and policy: challenges and directions for future research” (with Paul A Robson and F. Wijbenga), International Small Business Journal, Vol. 27(5), pp. 531-535, 2009
• "Emerging firms and the allocation of control rights: A Bayesian approach" (with Sharon Alvarez), Academy of Management Review, Vol. 34(2), pp. 209-227, 2009.
• "Can cognitive biases explain venture team homophily?", Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Vol. 3, pp. 67-83, 2009.
• "Why do small firms produce the entrepreneurs?", Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol. 38(3), pp. 484-494, 2009.
• "The economics of formal business networks", Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 23(6), pp. 627-640, 2008.
• "Entrepreneurship among married couples in the United States: A simultaneous probit approach", Labour Economics, Vol. 15(3), pp. 515-537, 2008.
• "Which firms do the entrepreneurs come from?", Economics Bulletin, Vol. 10(10), pp. 1-9, 2007.
• "Self-employment and the retirement decision" (with Jonathan Rougier), Applied Economics, Vol. 39, pp. 697-713, 2007.
• "Entrepreneurial learning and the existence of credit markets", Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organisation, Vol. 62(1), pp. 37-46, 2007.
• "Schooling, capital constraints and entrepreneurial performance: The endogenous triangle" (with Mirjam van Praag), Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol. 24(4), pp. 416-31, 2006.
• "What happens to nascent entrepreneurs?" (with Yacine Belghitar), Small Business Economics, Vol. 27, pp. 81-101, 2006.
• "Learning about the unknown: how fast do entrepreneurs adjust their beliefs?", Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 21(1), pp. 1-26, 2006.
• "Explaining regional variations in entrepreneurship as multiple equilibria", Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 45, pp. 829-850, 2005.
• "Wage uncertainty and self-employed labour supply" (with Tim Barmby and Yacine Belghitar), Economic Journal, Vol. 115, pp. C190-207, 2005.
• "The Economics of Entrepreneurship: What we know and what we don’t", Vol 1, No.1, pp. 1-55, Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, May 2005.
• "Explaining international variations in self-employment: evidence from a panel of OECD countries" (with Martin Robson), Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 71, pp. 287-301, 2004.
• "Introduction to the Special Issue on Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation" (with William B Gartner), Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Vol. 28, pp. 413-17, 2004.
• "Asymmetric information, occupational choice and government policy", Economic Journal, Vol. 113, pp. 861-82, 2003.
• "Does tax evasion affect occupational choice?", Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, Vol. 65, pp. 379-94, 2003.
• "The distribution of wealth among older self-employed Britons", Fiscal Studies, Vol. 24, pp. 23-43, 2003.
• "Do banks ration credit to new enterprises? And should governments intervene?" Presidential Address to the Scottish Economic Society, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 49, pp. 162-95, 2002.
• "Family finance and new business start-ups" (with Anuradha Basu), Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, Vol. 63, pp. 333-58, 2001.
• "Measuring social mobility as unpredictability" (with Jonathan Rougier), Economica, Vol. 68, pp, 63-76, 2001.
• "Risk, self-employment and differential taxation", Manchester School, Vol. 69, pp. 1-15, 2001.
• "Evasion of borrowing constraints and small business entry and exit", Small Business Economics, Vol. 15, pp. 223-32, 2000.
• "The inequality of employment and self-employment incomes: a decomposition analysis for the UK", Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 263-274, 1999.
• "The optimal linear taxation of employment and self-employment incomes", Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 73, pp. 107-123, 1999.
• "The generalised beta as a model of the earnings distribution", Economics Letters, Vol. 62, pp. 197-200, 1999.
• "The effects of risk on self-employment", Small Business Economics, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 512-522, 1997.
• "Modelling regional house prices in the UK" (with John Ashworth), Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 225-246, 1997.
• "The distribution of self-employment income in the UK, 1976-91", Economic Journal, Vol. 107, No. 441, pp. 455-66, 1997. [15 ISI-SSCI citations]
• "Spatial variations in the determinants and effects of births and deaths" (with Peter Johnson), Regional Studies, Vol. 30, No. 7, pp. 679-688, 1996.
• "A time-series model of self-employment under uncertainty", Economica, Vol. 63, No. 251, pp. 459-75, 1996.
• "The inter-relationships between births and deaths: the case of UK retailing in the 1980s" (with P. Johnson), Small Business Economics, Vol. 6, pp. 283-90, 1994.
• "Optimal release dates of new product breakthroughs", Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 2, pp. 257-62, 1993.
• "Significantly concentrated markets: theory and evidence for the UK", International Journal of Industrial Organisation, Vol. 9, pp. 585-90, 1991.

EXPERIENCE

Previous positions: Full Professor of Economics, Durham University 1999-2008; Reader in Economics, Brunel and Durham Universities, 1996-1998; Lecturer in Economics, Durham University, 1991-1996

Previous activities: Member of the PSED II consortium; judge of the annual CBI-sponsored UK Growing Business Awards competition, London, UK; external contributor to University of Louisville, USA, PhD in Entrepreneurship programme (Economics of Entrepreneurship); member of the International Scientific Committee of the World Entrepreneurship Summit, 2009

EXPERTISE

Entrepreneurship as an occupational choice; nascent entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship; female entrepreneurship