SI 2019 Entrepreneurship

Josh Lerner and David T. Robinson, Organizers

July 15, 2019

Ballroom

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 15
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Sudheer Chava, Georgia Tech
Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Manpreet Singh, Georgia Institute of Technology

Does One-Size-Fits-All Minimum Wage Cause Financial Stress to Small Businesses? Evidence from 15 Million Establishments
Discussant: Barton H. Hamilton, Washington University in St Louis
9:45 am
Joonkyu Choi, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Nathan Goldschlag, U.S. Census Bureau
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
J. Daniel Kim, University of Pennsylvania

The Post Entry Growth and Survival of Business Startups: The Role of Founding Teams
Discussant: Jorge Guzman, Columbia University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Jason Mao, State Street Global Exhange
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Nan Zhang, State Street Global Exhange

Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity
Discussant: Steven N. Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
11:30 am
Jacelly C. Cespedes, University of Minnesota
Xing Huang, Washington University in St Louis
Carlos R. Parra, PUC Chile

More Cash Flows, More Options? The Effect of Cash Windfalls on Small Firms
Discussant: Toni Whited, University of Michigan and NBER
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Ofer Eldar, University of California, Berkeley
Jill Grennan, Emory University
Kate Waldock, Georgetown University

Common Ownership and Startup Growth
Discussant: Martin C. Schmalz, University of Oxford
2:15 pm
Ilya A. Strebulaev, Stanford University and NBER
Will Gornall, University of British Columbia

Gender, Race, and Entrepreneurship: A Randomized Field Experiment on Venture Capitalists and Angels
Discussant: Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER

Founder-CEO Compensation and Non-Diversifiable Risk in Venture-Capital Backed Firms
Discussant: Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
4:00 pm
Adjourn