Monday, July 17

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
J. Daniel Kim, University of Pennsylvania
Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University

Discussant:
David T. Robinson, Duke University and NBER

9:45 am

The Intangible Capital of Young Serial Entrepreneurs

Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
Anders Sørensen, Copenhagen Business School

Discussant:
Paul Gompers, Harvard University and NBER

10:30 am

Break

10:45 am

Can Paying Firms More Quickly Affect Aggregate Employment?

Jean-Noel Barrot, HEC Paris
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London

Discussant:
John A. Mondragon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

11:30 am

Correcting Market Failures in Entrepreneurial Finance

Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University
Geoffrey Tate, University of Maryland and NBER
Liu Yang, University of Maryland

Discussant:
David Sraer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

12:15 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Taxes, Regulations of Businesses, and Evolution of Income Inequality in the U.S.

Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto
Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame

Discussant:
Danny Yagan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

2:15 pm

Entrepreneurship and Information on Past Failures: A Natural Experiment

Christophe Cahn, Banque de France
Mattia Girotti, Banque de France
Augustin Landier, HEC Paris

Discussant:
Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER

3:00 pm

Break

3:15 pm

Do Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment Respond to Simpler Fiscal Incentives? Evidence from France

Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
Matthieu Lequien, INSEE
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Dina Pomeranz, University of Zurich

4:00 pm

Adjourn