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 Mannheim
Keer Yang, University of California, 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 and NBER

Reputation Spillovers in Venture Capital: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Discussant: Tania Babina, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
3:00 pm
Laura Chioda, University of California, Berkeley
David Contreras-Loya, Tecnológico de Monterrey
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