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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth Conference

David T. Robinson and Manuel Adelino, Organizers

October 14 and 15, 2016

The Bullpen
3rd Floor, Imperial Tobacco Building
215 Morris Street
Durham, NC

PROGRAM

Friday, October 14
8:45 am	Continental breakfast
9:30 am	Chuck Eesley, Stanford University Yong Suk Lee, Stanford University The Effects of University Entrepreneurship Initiatives on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
	Discussant: Aaron Chatterji, Duke University and NBER
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Sabrina T. Howell, New York University Learning in Entrepreneurship
	Discussant: Richard Townsend, UC San Diego
11:45 am	Lunch
12:30 pm	Keynote address and panel discussion: The role of entrepreneurship in urban revitalization Kevyn Orr, Jones Day and Former Emergency Manager of the City of Detroit Michael J. Goodmon, Capitol Broadcasting Company
2:15 pm	Titan M. Alon, Northwestern University David W. Berger, Northwestern University and NBER Robert C. Dent, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Benjamin Pugsley, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Older and Slower: The Startup Deficit's Lasting Effects on Productivity Growth
	Discussant: Geoffrey Tate, UNC Chapel Hill and NBER
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Jorge Guzman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER The State of American Entrepreneurship: Evidence from 15 States
	Discussant: Song Ma, Yale University
4:30 pm	Adjourn
7:00 pm	Dinner, The Counting House Restaurant 111 N Corcoran St, Durham, in the 21C Hotel ·
Saturday, October 15
8:45 am	Continental breakfast
9:00 am	Mark Curtis, Wake Forest University Ryan Decker, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Entrepreneurship and State Policy
	Discussant: Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Duke University and NBER
10:00 am	Konrad Burch. Burchardi, Stockholm University Thomas Chaney, University of Chicago Tarek Alexander Hassan, University of Chicago and NBER Migrants, Ancestors, and Foreign Investments
	Discussant: Joshua D. Gottlieb, University of British Columbia and NBER
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Jean-Noel Barrot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ramana Nanda, Harvard University and NBER Can Paying Firms Quicker Affect Aggregate Employment?
	Discussant: Mauricio Larrain, Columbia University
12:15 pm	Adjourn (box lunch provided)