SI 2017 Entrepreneurship

Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

July 17, 2017

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 17
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
J. Daniel Kim, University of Pennsylvania
Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University

Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Discussant: David T. Robinson, Duke University and NBER
9:45 am
Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
Anders Sørensen, Copenhagen Business School

The Intangible Capital of Young Serial Entrepreneurs
Discussant: Paul Gompers, Harvard University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Jean-Noel Barrot, HEC Paris
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London

Can Paying Firms More Quickly Affect Aggregate Employment?
Discussant: John A. Mondragon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
11:30 am
Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University
Geoffrey Tate, University of Maryland and NBER
Liu Yang, University of Maryland

Correcting Market Failures in Entrepreneurial Finance
Discussant: David Sraer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto
Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame

Taxes, Regulations of Businesses, and Evolution of Income Inequality in the U.S.
Discussant: Danny Yagan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2:15 pm
Christophe Cahn, Banque de France
Mattia Girotti, Banque de France
Augustin Landier, HEC Paris

Entrepreneurship and Information on Past Failures: A Natural Experiment
Discussant: Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
Matthieu Lequien, INSEE
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER

Do Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment Respond to Simpler Fiscal Incentives? Evidence from France
Discussant: Dina Pomeranz, University of Zurich
4:00 pm
Adjourn