Entrepreneurship Working Group

Josh Lerner and David T. Robinson, Organizers

December 3, 2021

Cambridge, MA and Zoom

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, December 3
8:45 am
Continental Breakfast
9:15 am
Welcome and introduction
9:30 am
Sergey Chernenko, Purdue University
David S. Scharfstein, Harvard University and NBER

Racial Disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program
9:50 am
Celine Yue Fei, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Keer Yang, University of California at Davis

Fintech and Racial Barriers in Small Business Lending
10:10 am
Discussant: Constantine Yannelis, University of Chicago and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Camille Hebert, University of Toronto

Learning from Errors in Entrepreneurship
11:20 am
Andrea Coali, Bocconi University
Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University
Elena Novelli, Bayes Business School

Understanding Probabilistic Reasoning in Entrepreneurship
11:40 am
Discussant: Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 n
Lunch - Skyline Rooms D and E (West Tower, 2nd Floor)
1:00 pm
Jessica Jeffers, HEC Paris
Tianshu Lyu, Yale University
Kelly Posenau, Cornell University

The Risk and Return of Impact Investing Funds
Discussant: Shawn Cole, Harvard University and NBER
1:45 pm
Break
2:15 pm
Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER
Kunal Mehta, Independent Researcher
Richard R. Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Ting Xu, University of Toronto

Reputation Spillovers in Venture Capital: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Discussant: Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
3:00 pm
Laura Chioda, University of California, Berkeley
David Contreras-Loya, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Dana Carney, University of California, Berkeley

Making Entrepreneurs: Effect of Training Youth in Business Skills on Enterprise and Employment Creation
Discussant: Natalia Rigol, Harvard University and NBER
3:45 pm
Adjourn