Friday, December 4
9:45 am
Welcome
Session 1
10:00 am

Did the $660 Billion Paycheck Protection Program and $220 Billion Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program Get Disbursed to Minority Communities in the Early Stages of COVID-19?

Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Frank Fossen, University of Nevada - Reno

Discussant:
Karen G. Mills, Harvard University
10:45 am

Reshaping the Local Marketplace: Brands, Local Stores, and COVID

Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland, College Park
Liu Yang, University of Maryland, College Park

Discussant:
Yi Qian, University of British Columbia and NBER
11:30 am
Break
Session 2
12:15 pm

Small Business Survival Capabilities: Evidence from Oakland

Robert P. Bartlett III, Stanford University
Adair Morse, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Discussant:
William Strange, University of Toronto
1:00 pm

Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups

Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER
Richard R. Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Ting Xu, University of Toronto

Discussant:
Elena Simintzi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1:45 pm
Break
Session 3
2:00 pm

The Virtuous Cycle of Innovation and Capital Flows

Daniel Fehder, University of Southern California
Naomi Hausman, Hebrew University
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER

Discussant:
Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER
2:45 pm

Global Drug Diffusion and Innovation with the Medicines Patent Pool

Lucy Xiaolu Wang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Discussant:
Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
3:45 pm
Happy Hour
4:30 pm
Adjourn