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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2013 Entrepreneurship Workshop

Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

July 16, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 15:

6:00 pm

Reception, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Ballroom B

Tuesday, July 16:

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

VC and Innovation


9:10 am


Michael Ewens, Carnegie Mellon University
Christian Fons-Rosen, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
The Consequence of Entrepreneurial Firm Founding on Innovation

Discussant: Jeffrey Furman, Boston University and NBER


10:00 am


Ashwini Agrawal, New York University
Alexander Ljungqvist, New York University and NBER
Managerial Labor Market Frictions and Corporate Investment

Discussant: David Robinson, Duke University and NBER

10:45 am

Break

Small Business Performance and Growth Patterns

11:00 am

Achyuta Adhvaryu, Yale University
Namrata Kala, Yale University
Anant Nyshadham, University of Southern California
Booms, Busts, and Household Enterprise: Evidence from Coffee Farmers in Tanzania

Discussant: Supreet Kaur, Columbia University

11:45 am

Lunch

12:45 pm

Marcela Eslava, Universidad de los Andes
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Young Businesses, Entrepreneurship, and the Dynamics of Employment and Output in Colombia’s Manufacturing Industry

Discussant: Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER

1:30 pm

Sarada, Duke University
The Unobserved Returns to Entrepreneurship

Discussant: Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Northwestern University and NBER

2:15 pm

Break

Unemployment Insurance and Insurance for Entrepreneurship

2:30 pm

Mette Ejrnaes, University of Copenhagen
Stefan Hochguertel,
VU University Amsterdam
Insurance, Entrepreneurial Start-Up and Performance

Discussant: John Friedman, Harvard University and NBER

3:15 pm

Johan Hombert, HEC Paris
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
David Sraer, Princeton University and NBER
David Thesmar, HEC Paris
Can Unemployment Insurance Spur Entrepreneurial Activity? Evidence From France

Discussant: Steven Davis, University of Chicago and NBER

4:00 pm

Adjourn