Monday, July 15
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
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8:30 am

America's Missing Entrepreneurs

Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Gaia Dossi, University College London
Matthew Smith, Department of the Treasury
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER
Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
9:15 am

Career Choice of Entrepreneurs, Inventors and Economic Growth

Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
Harun Alp, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Jeremy Pearce, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Marta Prato, Bocconi University

Discussant:
Morten Sorensen, Dartmouth College and NBER
10:00 am

Sexual Orientation, Entrepreneurship, and Firm Survival

Mikaela Backman, Jӧnkӧping International Business School
Christopher S. Carpenter, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Erwan Dujeancourt, Stockholm University
Samuel Mann, RAND Corporation

Discussant:
Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
10:45 am
Break
11:15 am

Can Small Businesses Survive Chapter 11?

Edie Hotchkiss, Boston College
Benjamin Iverson, Brigham Young University
Xiang Zheng, University of Connecticut

Discussant:
Ofer Eldar, University of California, Berkeley
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Moral Hazard in Experiment Design: Implications for Financing Innovation

Patrick Bolton, Columbia University
Shannon X. Liu, University of Toronto
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Savitar Sundaresan, Imperial College London

Discussant:
Benjamin N. Roth, Harvard University
1:45 pm

Stock Market Wealth and Entrepreneurship

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
Plamen T. Nenov, Norges Bank
Vitor Santos, Norwegian Business School
Alp Simsek, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
Tania Babina, University of Maryland and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm

The Changing Nature of Entrepreneurship in the U.S.: Evidence from Shopify

Lisa Abraham, RAND Corporation
Benjamin K. Master, RAND Corporation
Brian Phillips, RAND Corporation
Gabriel Hassler, RAND Corporation

Discussant:
Andrey Fradkin, Boston University
3:45 pm

Startups in Africa

Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago and NBER
Marcio Cruz, IFC, World Bank Group
Mariana Pereira-Lopez, World Bank
Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER
Chun Zhao, Stanford University

Discussant:
Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics
4:30 pm
Adjourn
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