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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

 

Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting

 

Josh Lerner, Organizer

 

July 21, 2009

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Skyline Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

  MONDAY, JULY 20:

 

6:30 pm

Group Dinner

 

Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd. (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

TUESDAY, JULY 21

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

New Databases and New Insights into Entrepreneurship

 

 

 9:00 am

JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

 

RON JARMIN and JAVIER MIRANDA, Bureau of the Census

 

Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young

 

 

 

Discussant: JAMES REBITZER, Case Western Reserve University and NBER

 

 

 9:50 am

DAVID ROBINSON, Duke University

 

Capital Structure Decisions of New Firms

 

(with Alicia Robb)

 

 

 

Discussant: MALCOLM BAKER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

 

Entrepreneurial Spawning

 

 

11:00 am

APRIL FRANCO, University of Toronto

 

Who Leaves, to Go Where and Does It Matter? Employee Mobility, Employee Entrepreneurship, and the Effects on Parent Firm Performance

 

(with Rajshree Agarwal, Benjamin Campbell and Martin Ganco)

 

 

 

Discussant: DAVID SCHARFSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

11:50 am

MATT MARX, MIT

 

Non-Compete Agreements, Technical Expertise, and Staffing Small Firms

 

 

 

Discussant: MIKE MEURER, Boston University

 

 

12:40 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

Entrepreneurship in Developing Nations

 

 

 1:40 pm

MIRIAM BRUHN and IRENA LOVE, World Bank

 

The Economic Impact of Banking the Unbanked: Evidence from Mexico

 

 

 

Discussant: VOJISLAV MAKSIMOVIC, University of Maryland

 

 

 2:30 pm

DAVID MCKENZIE, The World Bank

 

Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

 

(with Suresh De Mel and Christopher Woodruff)

 

 

 

Discussant: SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

 3:20 pm

Break

 

 

 3:35 pm

Panel: Entrepreneurship Education and Research Opportunities

 

 

 

FELDA HARDYMON, Harvard University

 

ANTOINETTE SCHOAR, MIT and NBER

 

ROBERT STROM, Kauffman Foundation

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

5/15/09