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, City University of Hong Kong

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