
	Friday, December 1
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Format: 25 for authors, 15 minutes for discussants and 5 minutes for Q&A
8:30 am	The Local Origins of Business Formation (slides) Emin Dinlersoz, U.S. Census Bureau Timothy Dunne, Notre Dame University John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER Veronika Penciakova, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Discussant: Emmanuel Yimfor, Columbia University
9:15 am	Great Recession Babies: How Are Startups Shaped by Macro Conditions at Birth? Daniel Bias, Vanderbilt University Alexander Ljungqvist, Stockholm School of Economics Discussant: Malcolm Baker, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:30 am	Moving Forward or Falling Back: Gender Differences in Career Advancement for Former Entrepreneurs Re-Entering the Workforce Tristan L. Botelho, Yale University Daniel Fehder, University of Southern California Milan Miric, University of Southern California Discussant: Camille Hebert, University of Toronto
11:15 am	What Makes a Good Entrepreneur? Emma Lappi, Copenhagen Business School Jose Mata, Copenhagen Business School Luis Cabral, New York University Discussant: Per Stromberg, Stockholm School of Economics
12:00 pm	Lunch - Room Skyline AB
1:00 pm	Death and Turmoil in R&D Teams Thomas Astebro, HEC Paris Olof Ejermo, University of Lund Otto Toivanen, Aalto University Discussant: Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
1:45 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Liquidity Shocks and Private Equity Investment Yingxiang Li, University of British Columbia Discussant: Minmo Gahng, Cornell University
3:00 pm	Do Investors Overvalue Startups? Evidence from the Junior Stakes of Mutual Funds Vikas Agarwal, Georgia State University Brad Barber, University of California at Davis Si Cheng, Syracuse University Allaudeen Hameed, National University of Singapore Harshini Shanker, London Business School Ayako Yasuda, University of California at Davis Discussant: Will Gornall, University of British Columbia
3:45 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Thomas Astebro, HEC Paris
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
Malcolm Baker, Harvard University and NBER
John M. Barrios, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Daniel Bias, Vanderbilt University
Tristan L. Botelho, Yale University
Luis Cabral, New York University
Thomas J. Chemmanur, Boston College
Matthew R. Denes, Carnegie Mellon University
Emin Dinlersoz, U.S. Census Bureau
Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
Joan Farre-Mensa, University of Illinois at Chicago
Daniel Fehder, University of Southern California
Celine Y. Fei, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lee Fleming, University of California, Berkeley
Minmo Gahng, Cornell University
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Naomi Hausman, Hebrew University
Camille Hebert, University of Toronto
Rawley Z. Heimer, Arizona State University
Matthew J. Higgins, University of Utah and NBER
Kose John, New York University
Rembrand M. Koning, Harvard University
Zachary Kroff, U.S. Census Bureau
Spyridon Lagaras, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Emma Lappi, Copenhagen Business School
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Yingxiang Li, University of British Columbia
Tong Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tong Liu, National University of Singapore
Song Ma, Yale University and NBER

Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland
Yifei Mao, Cornell University
Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER
Denis Medvedev, The World Bank
Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University and NBER
Milan Miric, University of Southern California
William Mullins, University of California, San Diego
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Debarshi Nandy, Brandeis University
Temitope S. Oladimeji, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Nicholas Pairolero, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Veronika Penciakova, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Kelly Posenau, Cornell University
S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University, Visiting Professor Yale School of Management
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maria P. Roche, Harvard University
Sarada Sarada, University of California, Los Angeles
Nathan Seegert, University of Utah
Carlos J. Serrano, HEC Paris
Per Stromberg, Stockholm School of Economics
Margarita Tsoutsoura, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Nishant Vats, Washington University in St Louis
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
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
Ayako Yasuda, University of California at Davis
Emmanuel Yimfor, Columbia University
Yao Zeng, University of Pennsylvania
Arvids A. Ziedonis, Boston University
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Boston University and NBER