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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting

Supported by Ewing M. Kauffman Foundation

Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

December 9, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Riverfront Room

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Thursday, December 8:
6:00 pm	Group Dinner at Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd. in Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, December 9:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
	Taxation and Entrepreneurship
9:00 am	Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Duke University and NBER Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China
9:50 am	Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, London School of Economics Daniel Paravisini, London School of Economics How Sensitive is Investment to the Cost of Outside Equity? Evidence from a UK Tax Relief Joint Discussant: Bronwyn Hall, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
10:40 am	Break
	Small Businesses
10:55 am	Morten Bennedsen, INSEAD Margarita Tsoutsoura, University of Chicago Daniel Wolfenzon, Columbia University and NBER Drivers of Effort: Evidence from Employee Absenteeism Discussant: Ray Fisman, Boston University and NBER
11:45 am	Sabrina T. Howell, New York University Learning and Success in Entrepreneurship Discussant: Augustin Landier, Toulouse School of Economics
12:35 pm	Lunch – Somerset Room
1:35 pm	William Mullins, University of Maryland Patricio Toro, Central Bank of Chile Credit Guarantees and Credit Constraints Discussant: Jean-Noel Barrot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:25 pm	Break
	Private Equity
2:40 pm	Michael Weisbach,Ohio State University and NBER Daniel Cavagnaro, California State University Fullerton Berk Sensoy, Ohio State University Yingdi Wang, California State University Fullerton Measuring Institutional Investors' Skill from Their Investments in Private Equity
3:30 pm	Aleksander Andonov, Erasmus University Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER Joshua Rauh, Stanford University and NBER Political Representation and Governance: Evidence from the Investment Decisions of Public Pension Funds Joint Discussant: Victoria Ivashina, Harvard University and NBER
4:20 pm	Adjourn