
	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 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 at 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 at Berkeley
3:30 pm	The Cost of Convenience: Ridesharing and Traffic Fatalities Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER John M. Barrios, Washington University in St. Louis 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

Participants

Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER
John M. Barrios, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University and NBER
Serguey Braguinsky, University of Maryland and NBER
M. Diane Burton, Cornell University
Rolando Campusano, University of Toronto
Thomas J. Chemmanur, Boston College
Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
Shawn Cole, Harvard University and NBER
Patricio Dalton, Tilburg University
Mercedes Delgado, Copenhagen Business School
Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Joan Farre-Mensa, University of Illinois at Chicago
April Franco, University of Toronto
Amanda G. Gregg, Middlebury College
Jorge Guzman, Columbia University and NBER
Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University and NBER
Matthew J. Higgins, University of Utah and NBER
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Jessica Jeffers, HEC Paris
Shulamit Kahn, Boston University
Rembrand M. Koning, Harvard University
Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Gustavo Manso, University of California at Berkeley

Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER
Denis Medvedev, The World Bank
Mike Meurer, Boston University
Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University and NBER
Adair Morse, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Steven Nafziger, Williams College
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Debarshi Nandy, Brandeis University
Sari Pekkala Kerr, Wellesley College
Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame
Manju Puri, Duke University and NBER
S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University, Visiting Professor Yale School of Management
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Roach, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
David T. Robinson, Duke University and NBER
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Sarada Sarada, University of California, Los Angeles
Daniela Scur, Cornell University
Carlos J. Serrano, HEC Paris
Pian Shu, Harvard University
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
Xinxin Wang, University of California at Los Angeles
Christopher Woodruff, University of Oxford
Hanyi (Livia) Yi, Boston College
Arvids A. Ziedonis, Boston University
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Boston University and NBER