Thursday, December 5
6:00 pm
Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, December 6
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Technology Boom, Labor Reallocation, and Human Capital Depreciation

Johan Hombert, HEC Paris
Adrien Matray, Princeton University and NBER

Discussant:
Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER
9:20 am

The Education-Innovation Gap

Barbara Biasi, Yale University and NBER
Song Ma, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
10:10 am
Break
10:25 am

Confidence Spillovers in Competitive Environments: Evidence from Entrepreneurship (slides)

Kristoph Kleiner, Indiana University
Isaac Hacamo, Indiana University

Discussant:
Robin Greenwood, Harvard University and NBER
11:15 am

Identifying and Boosting “Gazelles”: Evidence from Business Accelerators

Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Santiago Reyes, International Finance Corporation

Discussant:
Ting Xu, University of Toronto
12:05 pm
Lunch - Restaurant Dante
1:00 pm

Do Startup Employees Earn More in the Long-Run?

Olav Sorenson, University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Dahl, Aalborg University Business School
Rodrigo Canales, Boston University
M. Diane Burton, Cornell University

Discussant:
Rebecca Zarutskie, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
1:50 pm
Break
2:05 pm

Be Careful What You Ask For: Fundraising Strategies in Equity Crowdfunding

Thomas F. Hellmann, University of Oxford
Nir Vulkan, University of Oxford

Discussant:
Daniel Fehder, University of Southern California
2:55 pm

Personal Wealth and Self-Employment

Aymeric Bellon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
J. Anthony Cookson, University of Colorado Boulder
Erik P. Gilje, University of Pennsylvania
Rawley Z. Heimer, Arizona State University

Discussant:
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
3:45 pm
Adjourn