Entrepreneurship Working Group

Josh Lerner and David T. Robinson, Organizers

December 2, 2022

Le Meridien, Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, December 1
6:00 pm
Group Dinner - Le Meridien, Taylor Ballroom
Friday, December 2
8:15 am
Continental Breakfast
8:45 am
Michael Roach, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Henry Sauermann, European School of Management and Technology

Can Early-Stage Startups Hire Talented Scientists and Engineers? Ability, Preferences, and Employee Job Choice
Discussant: Paige Ouimet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:15 am
Mu-Jeung Yang, University of Oklahoma
Nathan Seegert, University of Utah
Maclean Gaulin, University of Utah

Why is Entrepreneurial Overconfidence (so) Persistent?
Discussant: Sheryl Winston Smith, BI Norwegian Business School
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Matthew R. Denes, Carnegie Mellon University
Spyridon Lagaras, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Margarita Tsoutsoura, Washington University in St Louis and NBER

Entrepreneurship and the Platform Economy: Evidence from U.S. Tax Returns
Discussant: Melanie Wallskog, Duke University
11:00 am
Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland
Jing Xue, Georgia State University
Liu Yang, University of Maryland

Seizing Opportunities: Small Businesses, Social Capital, and Banks
Discussant: S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University, Visiting Professor Yale School of Management
11:45 am
Lunch, Taylor Ballroom
12:45 pm
Pulak Ghosh, India Institute of Management Bangalore
Nishant Vats, Washington University in St Louis

Safety Nets, Credit, and Investment: Evidence from a Guaranteed Income Program
Discussant: Natalia Rigol, Harvard University and NBER
1:30 pm
Yifei Mao, Cornell University
Xuan Tian, Tsinghua University
Jiajie Xu, University of Iowa
Kailei Ye, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Resurrecting Dead Capital: The Sharing Economy, Entrepreneurship, and Job Creation
Discussant: Elizabeth Mishkin, Uber
2:00 pm
Break
2:15 pm
Julia Fonseca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jialan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER

How Much Do Small Businesses Rely on Personal Credit?
Discussant: Samuel Hanson, Harvard University and NBER
3:00pm
Panel Discussion - Novel Datasets for Entrepreneurship Research
Robert Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER
Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University
Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State
Zachary Kroff, U.S. Census Bureau

The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among U.S. Startups
3:45 pm
Adjourn