
	Monday, July 15
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Does One-Size-Fits-All Minimum Wage Cause Financial Stress to Small Businesses? Evidence from 15 Million Establishments Sudheer Chava, Georgia Tech Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER Manpreet Singh, Georgia Institute of Technology Discussant: Barton H. Hamilton, Washington University in St Louis
9:45 am	The Post Entry Growth and Survival of Business Startups: The Role of Founding Teams Joonkyu Choi, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Nathan Goldschlag, U.S. Census Bureau John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER J. Daniel Kim, University of Pennsylvania Discussant: Jorge Guzman, Columbia University and NBER
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER Jason Mao, State Street Global Exhange Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Nan Zhang, State Street Global Exhange Discussant: Steven N. Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
11:30 am	More Cash Flows, More Options? The Effect of Cash Windfalls on Small Firms Jacelly C. Cespedes, University of Minnesota Xing Huang, Washington University in St Louis Carlos R. Parra, PUC Chile Discussant: Toni Whited, University of Michigan and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Common Ownership and Startup Growth Ofer Eldar, University of California, Berkeley Jill Grennan, Emory University Kate Waldock, Georgetown University Discussant: Martin C. Schmalz, University of Oxford
2:15 pm	Gender, Race, and Entrepreneurship: A Randomized Field Experiment on Venture Capitalists and Angels Ilya A. Strebulaev, Stanford University and NBER Will Gornall, University of British Columbia Discussant: Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Founder-CEO Compensation and Non-Diversifiable Risk in Venture-Capital Backed Firms Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER Discussant: Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
4:00 pm	Adjourn

Participants

James D. Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and NBER
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics
Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
Nicaise Aman, University Cheick Anta Diop (UCAD)
Natee Amornsiripanitch, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
Amar Bhide, Columbia University
Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University and NBER
Albert Bravo-Biosca, Innovation Growth Lab (IGL) & BSE
Emily Breza, Harvard University and NBER
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Christian Catalini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Xiao Cen, Texas A&M University
Jacelly C. Cespedes, University of Minnesota
Scarlet Chen, Stanford University
Wendy Chen, Texas Tech University
Joonkyu Choi, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University and NBER
Lin William Cong, Cornell University and NBER
Annamaria Conti, IE Business School
Steven J. Davis, Stanford University and NBER
Ryan A. Decker, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Mercedes Delgado, Copenhagen Business School
Weiran Deng, Amazon.com Inc
Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto
Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Pablo Egaña-delSol, Adolfo Ibanez University
Mahdi Eghbali, University of Iowa
Ofer Eldar, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
Joan Farre-Mensa, University of Illinois at Chicago
Barbara M. Fraumeni, Central University of Finance and Economics and NBER
Erica Fuchs, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Jeffrey L. Furman, Boston University and NBER
Alberto Galasso, University of Toronto and NBER
Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Nathan Goldschlag, U.S. Census Bureau
Will Gornall, University of British Columbia
Oleg Gredil, Tulane University
Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
Jorge Guzman, Columbia University and NBER
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Naomi Hausman, Hebrew University
Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER
Matthew J. Higgins, University of Utah and NBER
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Travis Howe, Kauffman Foundation
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
David H. Hsu, University of Pennsylvania
Xing Huang, Washington University in St Louis
Sunwoo Hwang, Korea University Business School
Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
William Janeway, University of Cambridge
Jessica Jeffers, HEC Paris
Zhao Jin, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Sukhun Kang, UC Santa Barbara
Steven N. Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
Matthias Kehrig, Duke University and NBER
Bekhzod Khoshimov, Wisconsin School of Business
J. Daniel Kim, University of Pennsylvania
Arthur Korteweg, University of Southern California
Elisabeth Kremp, Banque de France DGSER and NBER
Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan
Renata Lemos, The World Bank
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Jinlin Li, Harvard University
Shannon X. Liu, University of Toronto
Jessica L. Looze, Kauffman Foundation
Hong Luo, University of Toronto
ALINA MALKOVA, Florida Institute of Technology

Song Ma, Yale University and NBER
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Jacques Mairesse, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics and NBER
Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland
Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER
Adrien Matray, Princeton University and NBER
Denis Medvedev, The World Bank
Mike Meurer, Boston University
Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University and NBER
Alexander JM. Montag, University of Oxford
Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER
William Mullins, University of California, San Diego
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Debarshi Nandy, Brandeis University
Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Krisztina Orban, Monash University
Paige Ouimet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Carlos R. Parra, PUC Chile
Sari Pekkala Kerr, Wellesley College
Jacquelyn Pless, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame
Yi Qian, University of British Columbia and NBER
Francisco Queiro, Nova School of Business and Economics
Chhavi Rastogi, IFC, World Bank Group
S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University, Visiting Professor Yale School of Management
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Roach, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
David T. Robinson, Duke University and NBER
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Sampsa Samila, IESE Business School
Sarada Sarada, University of California, Los Angeles
Henry Sauermann, European School of Management and Technology
Martin C. Schmalz, University of Oxford
Monika Schnitzer, University of Munich
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Erin L. Scott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carlos J. Serrano, HEC Paris
Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
Pian Shu, Harvard University
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Manpreet Singh, Georgia Institute of Technology
Stanislav Sokolinski, Michigan State University
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Mingzhu Tai, University of Hong Kong
Valentina Tartari, Stockholm School of Economics
Geoffrey Tate, University of Maryland and NBER
Peter Thompson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Marie C. Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Richard R. Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Yusuke Tsujimoto, University of Alberta
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Kaushik Vasudevan, Purdue University
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
Rodrigo A. Wagner, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Melanie Wallskog, Duke University
Jialan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Toni Whited, University of Michigan and NBER
Sheryl Winston Smith, BI Norwegian Business School
Christopher Woodruff, University of Oxford
Jane Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jiajie Xu, University of Iowa
Ting Xu, University of Toronto
Jing Xue, Georgia State University
Ayako Yasuda, University of California at Davis
Jonathan Zandberg, University of Pennsylvania
Nan Zhang, State Street Global Exhange
Xiang Zheng, University of Connecticut
Yulia Zhestkova, University of Chicago
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Boston University and NBER