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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Entrepreneurship Working Group
Meeting
Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers
December 11, 2009
NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10:
6:00 pm Group Dinner - Bambara
Restaurant,
(across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11:
8:15 am Shuttle Vans Depart from The Royal
Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am Continental
Breakfast
Entrepreneurship, Risk, and Policy
9:00 am ROBERT FAIRLIE, UC,
Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to
Entrepreneurship?
Discussant:
JOSEPH DOYLE, MIT and NBER
9:45 am MEGHANA AYYAGARI,
ASLI DEMIRGUC-KUNT, The
World Bank
VOJISLAV
MAKSIMOVIC,
Are Innovating
Firms Victims or Perpetrators?
Tax Evasion, Bribe Payments and the Role of External Finance in Developing Countries
Discussant: MIHIR DESAI,
10:30 am Break
10:45 am THOMAS ASTEBRO, HEC, Paris
Preference for Skew in Lotteries: Evidence from the
Laboratory
Discussant:
FLORIAN EDERER, UC,
New Insights into Venture Capital
11:30 am AMITAY ALTER,
The Organization of Venture Capital Firms
Discussant: BERK SENSOY,
12:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm XUAN
TIAN,
TRACY
WANG,
Tolerance for Failure and Corporate Innovation
Discussant:
AMIT SERU,
2:00 pm Break
The Geography of Entrepreneurship
2:15 pm OLA
BENGTSSON,
AVRI
RAVID,
Geography and Financial
Contracts
Discussant:
JOHN COATES,
3:00 pm MERCEDES
DELGADO,
MICHAEL
PORTER,
SCOTT
STERN, Northwestern University and NBER
Discussant:
REBECCA HENDERSON,
3:45 pm Adjourn
12/2/09