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NBER/CRIW Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges

John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

December 16-17, 2014

JW Marriott
Salon III (
Ballroom Level)
1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC

PROGRAM


Participant List

Tuesday, December 16:

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

Measuring Entrepreneurship


9:00 am


John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Ron Jarmin,
U.S. Census Bureau
Robert Kulick, University of Maryland
Javier Miranda,
U.S. Census Bureau
High Growth Young Firms: Contribution to Job Growth, Revenue Growth and Productivity

Discussant:  Timothy Dunne, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

9:50 am

Break

10:10 am


Jorge Guzman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance

Discussant:  Ramana Nanda, Harvard University and NBER

11:00 am

Christopher Goetz, U.S. Census Bureau
Henry Hyatt, U.S. Census Bureau
Erika McEntarfer, U.S. Census Bureau
Kristin Sandusky, U.S. Census Bureau
New Public Use Data to Study Entrepreneurship from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Discussant:  Rajshree Agarwal,
University of Maryland


11:50 am


Lunch – Salon G

 


Financing and Entrepreneurship


1:00 pm


Steven Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Venture Capital Data:  Opportunities and Challenges

Discussant:  Richard Townsend, Dartmouth College

1:50 pm




Arthur Kennickell, Federal Reserve Board
Myron Kwast, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Jonathan Pogach, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Small Businesses and Small Business Finance during the Financial Crisis and the Great Recession: New Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances

Discussant:  Alicia Robb, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

2:40 pm

Break

3:00 pm




J. David Brown, U.S. Census Bureau
John Earle, George Mason University
Yana Morgulis,
University of California at San Diego
Job Creation, Small vs. Large vs. Young, and the SBA

Discussant:  Manuel Adelino, Duke University

3:50 pm

Panel:  Knowledge Gaps for Entrepreneurship

Moderator:  John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER

Panelists:
Gerald Cohen, U.S. Department of Treasury
Mark Doms,
Undersecretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs
Karen Mills,
Harvard University, Former Administrator of Small Business Administration
Betsey Stevenson, Council of Economic Advisers


5:00 pm


Adjourn

5:00 pm

CRIW Membership Meeting

6:30 pm

Dinner for Presenters and Executive Committee Members

 



Wednesday, December 17:

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast




Characteristics of Entrepreneurs

9:00 am

 

 

 


9:50 am

 

Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
Benjamin Pugsley, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Wealth, Tastes, and Entrepreneurial Choice

Discussant:  Patrick Kline, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

Break

10:10 am

Victor Bennett, Duke University
Megan Lawrence, Harvard University
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Are Founder CEOs Good Managers?

Discussant:  Jonathan Haskel, Imperial College London

 

 

Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance


11:00 am


Johan Hombert, HEC Paris
Antoinette Schoar,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
David Sraer, Princeton University and NBER

David Thesmar, HEC Paris
Can Unemployment Insurance Change the Selection into Entrepreneurship?

Discussant:  Mark Roberts,
Pennsylvania State University and NBER

11:50 am

Lunch – Salon G

1:00 pm

Tiantian Yang, Duke University
Rebecca Zarutskie, Federal Reserve Board
How Did Young Firms Fare During the Great Recession? Evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey

Discussant:  Shai Bernstein, Stanford University


1:50 pm

 

Sari Kerr, Wellesley College
William Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Discussant:  Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College and NBER


2:40 pm


Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

Format:

The meeting format for each paper will be a 20-minute presentation by the author, followed by one 15-minute discussion,
and then another 15 minutes for open discussion.