
	Thursday, December 1
6:00 pm	Group Dinner - Le Meridien, Taylor Ballroom
	Friday, December 2
8:15 am	Continental Breakfast
8:45 am	Can Early-Stage Startups Hire Talented Scientists and Engineers? Ability, Preferences, and Employee Job Choice Michael Roach, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Henry Sauermann, European School of Management and Technology Discussant: Paige Ouimet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:15 am	Why is Entrepreneurial Overconfidence (so) Persistent? Mu-Jeung Yang, University of Oklahoma Nathan Seegert, University of Utah Maclean Gaulin, University of Utah Discussant: Sheryl Winston Smith, BI Norwegian Business School
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Entrepreneurship and the Platform Economy: Evidence from U.S. Tax Returns Matthew R. Denes, Carnegie Mellon University Spyridon Lagaras, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Margarita Tsoutsoura, Washington University in St Louis and NBER Discussant: Melanie Wallskog, Duke University
11:00 am	Seizing Opportunities: Small Businesses, Social Capital, and Banks Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland Jing Xue, Georgia State University Liu Yang, University of Maryland Discussant: S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University, Visiting Professor Yale School of Management
11:45 am	Lunch, Taylor Ballroom
12:45 pm	Safety Nets, Credit, and Investment: Evidence from a Guaranteed Income Program Pulak Ghosh, India Institute of Management Bangalore Nishant Vats, Washington University in St Louis Discussant: Natalia Rigol, Harvard University and NBER
1:30 pm	Resurrecting Dead Capital: The Sharing Economy, Entrepreneurship, and Job Creation Yifei Mao, Cornell University Xuan Tian, Tsinghua University Jiajie Xu, University of Iowa Kailei Ye, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Discussant: Elizabeth Mishkin, Uber
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	How Much Do Small Businesses Rely on Personal Credit? Julia Fonseca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jialan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER Discussant: Samuel Hanson, Harvard University and NBER
3:00pm	Panel Discussion - Novel Datasets for Entrepreneurship Research Robert Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER
	The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among U.S. Startups Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State Zachary Kroff, U.S. Census Bureau
3:45 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
Itzhak Ben-David, The Ohio State University and NBER
Serguey Braguinsky, University of Maryland and NBER
Christian Chacua, Harvard University
Indraneel Chakraborty, University of Miami
Thomas J. Chemmanur, Boston College
Laura Chioda, University of California, Berkeley
Andrea Coali, Bocconi University
John Coates, Harvard University
Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago and NBER
Annamaria Conti, IE Business School
Marcio Cruz, IFC, World Bank Group
Matthew R. Denes, Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Julia Fonseca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Maclean Gaulin, University of Utah
Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Isaac Hacamo, Indiana University
Bronwyn H. Hall, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Samuel Hanson, Harvard University and NBER
Fumio Hayashi, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Camille Hebert, University of Toronto
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Aakash Kalyani, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis
Katja Kisseleva, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Julian Kolev, US Patent and Trademark Office
Nancy Kong, University of technology Sydney
Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago
Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University
Zachary Kroff, U.S. Census Bureau
Spyridon Lagaras, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Hong Luo, University of Toronto

Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland
Yifei Mao, Cornell University
Adrien Matray, Princeton University and NBER
Mike Meurer, Boston University
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Paige Ouimet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daniel Paravisini, London School of Economics
Sari Pekkala Kerr, Wellesley College
Bitsy Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
Felix Poege, Bocconi University
Kelly Posenau, Cornell University
S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University, Visiting Professor Yale School of Management
Michael Roach, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Maria P. Roche, Harvard University
Ed Saiedi, Harvard University
Sarada Sarada, University of California, Los Angeles
Felipe Severino, Dartmouth College
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Margarita Tsoutsoura, Washington University in St Louis and NBER
Nishant Vats, Washington University in St Louis
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
Melanie Wallskog, Duke University
Jialan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Lucy Xiaolu Wang, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sheryl Winston Smith, BI Norwegian Business School
Jiajie Xu, University of Iowa
Ting Xu, University of Toronto
Jing Xue, Georgia State University
Liu Yang, University of Maryland
Mu-Jeung Yang, University of Oklahoma
Emmanuel Yimfor, Columbia University
Jonathan Zandberg, University of Pennsylvania
Yao Zeng, University of Pennsylvania
Arvids A. Ziedonis, Boston University