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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting

 

Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

 

December 3, 2010

 

NBER

Feldstein Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2:

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3:

 

 

 8:30 am

Shuttle Vans Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 

 8:45 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 

Theme one: Entry and public policy

 

 

9:15 am

Geraldo Cerqueiro, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa

 

Maria Fabiana Penas, Tilburg University

 

How Does Personal Bankruptcy Law Affect Start-ups?

 

 

 

Discussant:  Ramana Nanda, Harvard University

 

 

10:00 am

Lee Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

Francisco Lima, Technical University of Lisbon

 

Ana Venancio, Technical University of Lisbon

 

Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Do Entry Regulations Deter Entrepreneurship and Job Creation? Evidence from Recent Reforms in Portugal

 

 

 

Discussant: Margarita Tsoutsoura, University of Chicago

 

 

10:45 am

Break

 

 

 

Theme two: Entry and capital providers

 

 

11:00 am

John Asker, New York University and NBER

 

Joan Farre-Mensa, New York University

 

Alexander Ljungqvist, New York University

 

Does the Stock Market Harm Investment Incentives?

 

 

 

Discussant:  Joshua Rauh, Northwester University and NBER

 

 

11:45 am

Lunch

 

 

12:45 pm

Marc-Andreas Muendler, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

James Rauch, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

Mobilizing Social Capital Through Employee Spinoffs: Evidence from Brazil

 

 

 

Discussant:  Rajkamal Iyer, MIT

 

 

1:30 pm

Break

 

 

1:45 pm

Annamaria Conti, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Marie Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Frank Rothaermel, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Show Me the Right Stuff: Signals for High-Tech Startups

 

 

 

Discussant: Laura Lindsey, Arizona State University

 

 

 

Theme three: Special discussion: Perspectives on entrepreneurship  policy

 

 

2:30 pm

Mark Doms, Chief Economist, US Department of Commerce

 

Winslow Sargeant, Chief Council for Advocacy, Office of Advocacy,

 

                                US Small Business Administration

 

 

3:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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