Entrepreneurship Working Group

Josh Lerner and David T. Robinson, Organizers

December 7, 2018

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Riverfront Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, December 6
6:00 pm
Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, December 7
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
The Demographics of Entrepreneurship
9:00 am
Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University
Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State

Job Creation and Survival among Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Universe of U.S. Startups
Discussant: Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame
9:50 am
Steven Nafziger, Williams College
Amanda G. Gregg, Middlebury College

The Births, Lives, and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia
Discussant: Serguey Braguinsky, University of Maryland and NBER
10:40 am
Break
Entrepreneurship and Social Impact
10:55 am
Christopher Geczy, University of Pennsylvania
Jessica Jeffers, HEC Paris
David Musto, University of Pennsylvania
Anne M. Tucker, Georgia State University

Contracts with Benefits: The Implementation of Impact Investing (slides)
Discussant: Shawn Cole, Harvard University and NBER
11:45 am
Bilal Zia, Duolingo
Patricio Dalton, Tilburg University
Julius Rueschenpoehler, University of California, Berkeley
Burak Uras, Tilburg University

Learning Business Practices from Peers: Experimental Evidence from Small-scale Retailers in an Emerging Market
Discussant: Sarada Sarada, University of California, Los Angeles
12:35 pm
Lunch - Dante's Restaurant
1:35 pm
Jesse Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adair Morse, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Xinxin Wang, University of California at Los Angeles

The Leveraging of Silicon Valley
Discussant: Manju Puri, Duke University and NBER
2:25 pm
Break
Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century
2:40 pm
Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University and NBER

Amateurs
Discussant: Gustavo Manso, University of California at Berkeley
3:30 pm
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
John M. Barrios, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Livia Hanyi Yi, Boston College

The Cost of Convenience: Ridesharing and Traffic Fatalities
Discussant: Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:20 pm
Adjourn
FORMAT:
20 min for presenters, 15 for discussants, 15 for general audience