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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting

Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

December 4, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Riverfront Room

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Thursday, December 3:
6:00 pm	Group Dinner
	Café ArtScience 650 E Kendall Street in Kendall Square Cambridge, MA
Friday, December 4:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND EMPLOYMENT
9:00 am	Deborah Goldschmidt, Boston University Johannes F. Schmieder, Boston University and NBER The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure Discussant: David Thesmar, HEC Paris
9:50 am	Tania Babina, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Paige Ouimet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Rebecca Zarutskie, Federal Reserve Board Going Entrepreneurial? IPOs and New Firm Creation Discussant: Debarshi Nandy, Brandeis University
10:40 am	Break
INFORMATION AGGREGATION
11:00 am	Ulf Axelson and Igor Makarov, London School of Economics Informational Black Holes in Auctions Discussant: John Yiran Zhu, University of Pennsylvania
11:50 am	Thomas J. Chemmanur, Boston College Gang Hu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Chaopeng Wu, Xia Men University High Differentiation and Low Standardization: The Role of Venture Capitalists in Transforming the Management and Governance of Private Family Firms Discussant: Manju Puri, Duke University and NBER
12:40 pm	Lunch – Somerset Room
NETWORK EFFECTS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
2:00 pm	Serguey Braguinsky, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER David A. Hounshell, Carnegie Mellon University History and Nanoeconomics in Strategy and Industry Evolution Research: Lessons from the Meiji-Era Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry Discussant: David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
2:50 pm	Break
2:40 pm	William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER Martin Mandorff, Swedish Competition Authority Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship Discussant: Robert Fairlie, University of California at Santa Cruz
4:00 pm	Adjourn