Entrepreneurship Working Group
Organized by Josh Lerner and David T. Robinson
Supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
December 2, 2022
Le Meridien, Cambridge, MA
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 and NBER
9:15 am

Why is Entrepreneurial Overconfidence (so) Persistent?

Mu-Jeung Yang, University of Colorado Boulder
Nathan Seegert, Northeastern University
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 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, College Park
Jing Xue, Georgia State University
Liu Yang, University of Maryland, College Park

Discussant:
S. Abraham Ravid, Yeshiva University
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, Santa Clara University
Xuan Tian, Tsinghua University
Jiajie Xu, University of Iowa
Kailei Ye, University of North Carolina at 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 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, Analysis Group
3:45 pm
Adjourn