Entrepreneurship Working Group

Josh Lerner and David T. Robinson, Organizers

December 1, 2023

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, December 1
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Format: 25 for authors, 15 minutes for discussants and 5 minutes for Q&A
8:30 am
Emin Dinlersoz, U.S. Census Bureau
Timothy Dunne, Notre Dame University
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Veronika Penciakova, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

The Local Origins of Business Formation (slides)
Discussant: Emmanuel Yimfor, Columbia University
9:15 am
Daniel Bias, Vanderbilt University
Alexander Ljungqvist, Stockholm School of Economics

Great Recession Babies: How Are Startups Shaped by Macro Conditions at Birth?
Discussant: Malcolm Baker, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:30 am
Tristan L. Botelho, Yale University
Daniel Fehder, University of Southern California
Milan Miric, University of Southern California

Moving Forward or Falling Back: Gender Differences in Career Advancement for Former Entrepreneurs Re-Entering the Workforce
Discussant: Camille Hebert, University of Toronto
11:15 am
Emma Lappi, Copenhagen Business School
Jose Mata, Copenhagen Business School
Luis Cabral, New York University

What Makes a Good Entrepreneur?
Discussant: Per Stromberg, Stockholm School of Economics
12:00 pm
Lunch - Room Skyline AB
1:00 pm
Thomas Astebro, HEC Paris
Olof Ejermo, University of Lund
Otto Toivanen, Aalto University

Death and Turmoil in R&D Teams
Discussant: Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
1:45 pm
Break
2:15 pm
Yingxiang Li, University of British Columbia

Liquidity Shocks and Private Equity Investment
Discussant: Minmo Gahng, Cornell University
3:00 pm
Vikas Agarwal, Georgia State University
Brad Barber, University of California at Davis
Si Cheng, Syracuse University
Allaudeen Hameed, National University of Singapore
Harshini Shanker, London Business School
Ayako Yasuda, University of California at Davis

Do Investors Overvalue Startups? Evidence from the Junior Stakes of Mutual Funds
Discussant: Will Gornall, University of British Columbia
3:45 pm
Adjourn