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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting

 

Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

 

July 26, 2011

 

Charles Suite

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 25:

6:00 pm

Group Dinner at Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
(Across the street from the Sonesta)

Tuesday, July 26:

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries


9:00 am


Miriam Bruhn, The World Bank
Bilal Zia, The World Bank
Business and Financial Literacy for Young Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina

Discussant: Nava Ashraf, Harvard University and NBER


9:45 am


Robert Fairlie, University of California at Santa Cruz
Dean Karlan, Yale University
Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College and NBER
GATE Opens, GATE Shuts: Short- and Long-Term Effects of Entrepreneurship Training in a Randomized Evaluation

Discussant: David Sraer, Princeton University

10:30 am

Break


10:45 am


Rocco Macchiavello, Warwick University
Development Uncorked: Reputation Acquisition in the New Market for Chilean Wines

Discussant:
Marina Halac, Columbia University

11:30 am

Suresh de Mel, University of Peradeniya
David McKenzie, The World Bank
Christopher Woodruff, University of California at San Diego and NBER
What is the Cost of Formality? Experimentally Estimating the Demand for Formalization

Discussant: Rema Hanna, Harvard University and NBER

12:15 pm

Lunch


1:15 pm


David Robinson, Duke University and NBER
Berk Sensoy, Ohio State University
Private Equity in the 21st Century: Cash Flows, Performance and Contract Terms from 1984 -2010

Discussant: Steve Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER

2:00 pm

Break


2:15 pm


Adair Morse, University of Chicago
Large Investors' Influence in Private Equity Funds

Discussant: Daniel Bergstresser, Harvard University


3:00 pm


Ajay Agrawal,
University of Toronto
Christian Catalini,
University of Toronto
Avi Goldfarb,
University of Toronto
The Geography of Crowdfunding

Discussant: Yael Hochberg, Northwestern University and NBER

3:45 pm

Adjourn