Entrepreneurship Working Group
Organized by Josh Lerner and David T. Robinson
Supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
December 6, 2019
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Longfellow Suites, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
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 and NBER
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