Entrepreneurship Working Group
Organized by Josh Lerner and David T. Robinson
Supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
December 7, 2018
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Riverfront Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Thursday, December 6
6:00 pm
Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, December 7
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
The Demographics of Entrepreneurship
9:00 am

Job Creation and Survival among Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Universe of U.S. Startups

Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University
Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State

Discussant:
Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame
9:50 am

The Births, Lives, and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia

Steven Nafziger, Williams College
Amanda G. Gregg, Middlebury College

Discussant:
Serguey Braguinsky, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
10:40 am
Break
Entrepreneurship and Social Impact
10:55 am

Contracts with Benefits: The Implementation of Impact Investing (slides)

Christopher Geczy, University of Pennsylvania
Jessica Jeffers, HEC Paris
David Musto, University of Pennsylvania
Anne M. Tucker, Georgia State University

Discussant:
Shawn Cole, Harvard University and NBER
11:45 am

Learning Business Practices from Peers: Experimental Evidence from Small-scale Retailers in an Emerging Market

Bilal Zia, Duolingo
Patricio Dalton, Tilburg University
Julius Rueschenpoehler, University of California, Berkeley
Burak Uras, Tilburg University

Discussant:
Sarada Sarada, University of California, Los Angeles
12:35 pm
Lunch - Dante's Restaurant
1:35 pm

The Leveraging of Silicon Valley

Jesse Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adair Morse, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Xinxin Wang, University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant:
Manju Puri, Duke University and NBER
2:25 pm
Break
Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century
2:40 pm

Amateurs

Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University and NBER

Discussant:
Gustavo Manso, University of California, Berkeley
3:30 pm

The Cost of Convenience: Ridesharing and Traffic Fatalities

Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
John M. Barrios, Yale University and NBER
Livia Hanyi Yi, Boston College

Discussant:
Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:20 pm
Adjourn
FORMAT:
20 min for presenters, 15 for discussants, 15 for general audience