Friday, December 3
8:45 am
Continental Breakfast
9:15 am
Welcome and introduction
9:30 am

Racial Disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program

Sergey Chernenko, Purdue University
David S. Scharfstein, Harvard University and NBER
9:50 am

Fintech and Racial Barriers in Small Business Lending

Celine Yue Fei, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Keer Yang, University of California at Davis
10:10 am
Discussant: Constantine Yannelis, University of Chicago and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Learning from Errors in Entrepreneurship

Camille Hebert, University of Toronto
11:20 am

Understanding Probabilistic Reasoning in Entrepreneurship

Andrea Coali, Bocconi University
Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University
Elena Novelli, Bayes Business School
11:40 am
Discussant: Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 n
Lunch - Skyline Rooms D and E (West Tower, 2nd Floor)
1:00 pm

The Risk and Return of Impact Investing Funds

Jessica Jeffers, HEC Paris
Tianshu Lyu, Yale University
Kelly Posenau, Cornell University

Discussant:
Shawn Cole, Harvard University and NBER
1:45 pm
Break
2:15 pm

Reputation Spillovers in Venture Capital: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

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

Discussant:
Tania Babina, University of Maryland and NBER
3:00 pm

Making Entrepreneurs: Effect of Training Youth in Business Skills on Enterprise and Employment Creation

Laura Chioda, University of California, Berkeley
David Contreras-Loya, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Dana Carney, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant:
Natalia Rigol, Harvard University and NBER
3:45 pm
Adjourn