
	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 Liu Yang, University of Maryland 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, University of California at Berkeley 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

Participants

James D. Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and NBER
Manuel Adelino, Duke University and NBER
Nicaise Aman, University Cheick Anta Diop (UCAD)
Mateja Andric, University of St. Gallen
Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER
Thomas Astebro, HEC Paris
Ulf Axelson, London School of Economics
Meghana Ayyagari, George Washington University
Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
John M. Barrios, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Robert P. Bartlett III, University of California at Berkeley
Aymeric Bellon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER
David G. Blanchflower, Dartmouth College and NBER
Maxime Bonelli, London Business School
Laura Bottazzi, Bologna University
Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University and NBER
Ant Bozkaya, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Serguey Braguinsky, University of Maryland and NBER
Albert Bravo-Biosca, Innovation Growth Lab (IGL) & BSE
Christian Catalini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Indraneel Chakraborty, University of Miami
Thomas J. Chemmanur, Boston College
Wendy Chen, Texas Tech University
Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
Assa Cohen, University of Pennsylvania
Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University and NBER
Shawn Cole, Harvard University and NBER
Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago and NBER
Annamaria Conti, IE Business School
Ana Cusolito, The World Bank
Michael S. Dahl, Aalborg University Business School
Patricio Dalton, Tilburg University
Mercedes Delgado, Copenhagen Business School
David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
Weiran Deng, Amazon.com Inc
Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Chuck Eesley, Stanford University
Mahdi Eghbali, University of Iowa
Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marcela Eslava, Universidad de los Andes
Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Joan Farre-Mensa, University of Illinois at Chicago
Daniel Fehder, University of Southern California
Christian Fons-Rosen, University of California at Merced
Frank M. Fossen, University of Nevada, Reno
April Franco, University of Toronto
Chiara Franzoni, Politecnico di Milano
Luca Gius, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Robin Greenwood, Harvard University and NBER
Isaac Hacamo, Indiana University
Barton H. Hamilton, Washington University in St. Louis
Pengfei Han, Peking University
Dietmar Harhoff, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Naomi Hausman, Hebrew University
Rawley Z. Heimer, Arizona State University
Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University and NBER
Matthew J. Higgins, University of Utah and NBER
Ouafaa Hmaddi, City College of New York
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
David H. Hsu, University of Pennsylvania
Allen Hu, Yale University
Agustin Hurtado, University of Maryland
Sunwoo Hwang, University of Cambridge
Leonardo Iacovone, The World Bank
Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
Stephen Michael Impink, HEC Paris
Mazhar Islam, Tulane University
Victoria Ivashina, Harvard University and NBER
Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER
Mark Jansen, University of Utah
Aakash Kalyani, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis
Sukhun Kang, UC Santa Barbara
Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
Seula Kim, Princeton University
Katja Kisseleva, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Kristoph Kleiner, Indiana University
Arthur Korteweg, University of Southern California
Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University
Camelia M. Kuhnen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBER
Elena Kulchina, North Carolina State University
Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto and NBER
Claire LeLarge, University of Paris Saclay
Michael Leatherbee, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Nils Haakon Lehr
Renata Lemos, The World Bank
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Jinlin Li, Harvard University
Frank R. Lichtenberg, Columbia University and NBER
Jack Liebersohn, University of California Irvine
Laura Lindsey, Arizona State University
Canyao Liu, Yale University
Tong Liu, National University of Singapore
Yunbo Liu, University of California at Berkeley
Francesca Lotti, Bank of Italy
Hong Luo, Harvard University
Elizabeth Lyons, University of California at San Diego
ALINA MALKOVA, Florida Institute of Technology
Song Ma, Yale University and NBER

Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland
Alan Marco, Georgia Institute of Technology
Gerald R. Marschke, State University of New York at Albany and NBER
Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER
Adrien Matray, Princeton University and NBER
David McKenzie, The World Bank
Denis Medvedev, The World Bank
Mike Meurer, Boston University
Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University and NBER
Karen G. Mills, Harvard University
Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University
Alexander JM. Montag, University of Oxford
Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER
Adair Morse, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
Sanghamitra W. Mukherjee, University of Oxford
William Mullins, University of California, San Diego
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Debarshi Nandy, Brandeis University
Thomas H. Noe, University of Oxford
Jean J. Oh, Columbia Business School
Krisztina Orban, University of Chicago
Leonardo Ortega, Georgia Institute of Technology
Paige Ouimet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER
Derek Ozkal, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Daniel Paravisini, London School of Economics
Anna A. Pechenina, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Sari Pekkala Kerr, Wellesley College
Maria Fabiana Penas, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Marta Prato, Bocconi University
Manju Puri, Duke University and NBER
Yi Qian, University of British Columbia and NBER
Xincheng Qiu, Arizona State University
Chhavi Rastogi, IFC, World Bank Group
S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Roach, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
David T. Robinson, Duke University and NBER
Maria P. Roche, Harvard University
Benjamin N. Roth, Harvard University
Julius Rueschenpoehler, University of California, Berkeley
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Sarada Sarada, University of California, Los Angeles
Henry Sauermann, European School of Management and Technology
Martin C. Schmalz, University of Oxford
Monika Schnitzer, University of Munich
Rachel Schuh, Stanford University
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
Robert Seamans, New York University
Carlos J. Serrano, HEC Paris
Simin Seury, York University
Felipe Severino, Dartmouth College
Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
Yuan Shi, University of Michigan
Seowon Shin, University of Washington
Elena Simintzi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Morten Sorensen, Dartmouth College and NBER
William Strange, University of Toronto
Per Stromberg, Stockholm School of Economics
Florenta Teodoridis, University of Southern California
Grid Thoma, University of Camerino
Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Thompson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Andrew Toole, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Russell Toth, University of Sydney
Richard R. Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Yusuke Tsujimoto, University of Alberta
Prabhava Upadrashta, Duke University
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Kaushik Vasudevan, Purdue University
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Federal Reserve Board and NBER
Nir Vulkan, University of Oxford
Rodrigo A. Wagner, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Stefan Wagner, ESMT Berlin
Simon Wakeman, New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
Melanie Wallskog, Duke University
Chunbei Wang
Lucy Xiaolu Wang, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Martin Watzinger, University of Muenster
Verena C. Wiedemann, University of Oxford
Sheryl Winston Smith, BI Norwegian Business School
Nataliya L. Wright, Columbia University
Chaopeng Wu, Xiamen University
Jane Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ruichi Xiong, University of Toronto
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
Jiajie Xu, University of Iowa
Ting Xu, University of Toronto
Jing Xue, Georgia State University
Liu Yang, University of Maryland
Ayako Yasuda, University of California at Davis
Zhen Ye, University of Maryland
Jonathan Zandberg, University of Pennsylvania
Jingxuan Zhang, University of Alberta
Xiang Zheng, University of Connecticut
Yulia Zhestkova, University of Chicago
Bilal Zia, Duolingo
Arvids A. Ziedonis, Boston University
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Boston University and NBER