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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth Pre-Conference

David T. Robinson and Manuel Adelino, Organizers

February 12, 2016

The Bullpen

3rd floor, Imperial Tobacco Building

215 Morris Street

Durham, NC

PROGRAM

Thursday, February 11
7:30 pm	Dinner, The Counting House, 111 Corcoran St, Durham, NC
Friday, February 12
9:00 am	Can Tian, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Cyclical Patterns of Business Entry and Exit Dynamics in the US Economy
9:30 am	Yong Suk Lee, Stanford University Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses, and Economic Growth in Cities
10:00 am	Break
10:30 am	Brian Baugh, The Ohio State University Itzhak Ben-David, Ohio State University and NBER Hoonsuk Park, The Ohio State University Can Taxes Shape an Industry? Evidence from the Implementation of the “Amazon Tax”
11:00 am	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
11:30 am	Jorge Guzman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER The State of American Entrepreneurship: Evidence from 15 States
12:00 noon	Lunch
1:00 pm	Mark Curtis, Wake Forest University Ryan Decker, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Entrepreneurship and State Policy
1:30 pm	Konrad Burch. Burchardi, Stockholm University Thomas Chaney, University of Chicago Tarek Alexander Hassan, University of Chicago and NBER Migrants, Ancestors, and Investments
2:00 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Jean-Noel Barrot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ramana Nanda, Harvard University and NBER Accelerating Payments to Small Businesses
3:00 pm	Sabrina T. Howell, New York University Very Early Venture Finance: An Evaluation of Pitch Competitions
3:30 pm	Adjourn