Entrepreneurship Working Group
Organized by Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
Supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
December 8, 2017
Cambridge
Thursday, December 7
6:00 pm
Group Dinner at Bambara Restaurant (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, December 8
8:15 am
Shuttle Van Leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER (taxis and uber for overflow)
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
Human Capital and Entrepreneurship
9:00 am

Human Capital, Competition, and Entrepreneurial Success in Manufacturing

Meghana Ayyagari, The George Washington University
Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland, College Park

Discussant:
Pian Shu, Sight Sphere
9:50 am

Are Early Stage Investors Biased Against Women?

Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
Richard Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Discussant:
Anusha Chari, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBER
10:40 am
Break
Entrepreneurship and Product Development
10:55 am

Developing Novel Drugs

Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER

Discussant:
Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
11:45 am

Killer Acquisitions

Colleen M. Cunningham, University of Utah
Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Song Ma, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:35 pm
Lunch
1:35 pm

Connecting to Power: Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics

Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Francesca Lotti, Banca d'Italia

Discussant:
Serdar Dinc, Rutgers University
2:25 pm
Break
Finance and Entrepreneurship
2:40 pm

When Owner and Customer Incentives Diverge: Private Equity in Higher Education

Charlie Eaton, University of California, Merced
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
Constantine N. Yannelis, University of Cambridge

Discussant:
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:30 pm

Debtor Protection and Firm Dynamics

Geraldo Cerqueiro, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
Maria Fabiana Penas, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Robert Seamans, New York University

Discussant:
Felipe Severino, Dartmouth College
4:20 pm
Adjourn
FORMAT:
20 min for presenters, 15 for discussants, 15 for general audience