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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SI 2012 Entrepreneurship Workshop

 

Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar, and Nicholas Bloom, Organizers

 

July 17, 2012

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Ballroom A – West Tower

40 Edwin Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 16:

6:00 pm

Group Dinner – Riverfront Room at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in the East Tower

Tuesday, July 17:

8:30 am

Coffee and pastries


9:00 am


Ramana Nanda, Harvard University
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Harvard University
Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

Discussant: Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER


9:45 am


Samuel Lee, New York University
Petra Persson, Columbia University
Financing from Family and Friends

Discussant: Thomas Noe, Oxford University


10:30 am


Break


11:30 am


Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Sari Pekka. Kerr, Wellesley College
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Discussant: Xavier Giroud, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


12:15 pm


Lunch


1:15 pm


Bo Zhao, University of Michigan
Rosemarie Ziedonis, University of Oregon
State Governments as Financiers of Technology Startups: Implications for Firm Performance

Discussant: Heidi Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER


2:00 pm


Break


2:15 pm


Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard University
Xin Meng, Australian National University
Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER
Xiaoxue Zhao, Yale University
Private Sector Employment and Labor Demand in China: Evidence from Urban Housing Reforms

Discussant: Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER


3:00 pm


Break


3:15 pm


Panel: The Role of Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Economy

 

Yasheng Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tarun Khanna, Harvard University
James Liang, Stanford University


4:30 pm


Adjourn