NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting

 

Josh Lerner, Organizer

 

March 14, 2008

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 13:

 

 6:00 pm          Group Dinner

                        Dante

                        Royal Sonesta Hotel

                        40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

                        Cambridge, MA

                       

FRIDAY, MARCH 14:

 

 8:15 am          Shuttle Van Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 8:30 am          Shuttle Van Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 8:45 am          Continental Breakfast

 

            Entrepreneurial Networks

 

 9:20 am          ASIM KHWAJA, Harvard University

                        The Value of Business Networks

                        (Joint with Atif Mian and Abid Qamar)

                       

                        Discussant: ERICA FIELD, Harvard University

 

10:10 am         Break

 

10:25 am         AMAR BHIDE, Columbia University

                        Founders and Staff: Global At Home

 

                        Discussant: WILLIAM KERR, Harvard University

 

            Public Policy and Entrepreneurship

 

11:15 am         AARON CHATTERJI, Duke University

                        The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Minority

                        Self-Employment

                        (Joint with Kenneth Chay, and Robert Fairlie)

 

                        Discussant: BARTON HAMILTON, Washington University in St. Louis

 

12:05 pm         Lunch

 

            Entrepreneurial Success and Failure

 

 1:00 pm          ULRIKE MALMEDIER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

                        With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends:  Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship

                        (Joint with Josh Lerner)

 

                        Discussant: DAVID ROBINSON, Duke University

 

 1:50 pm          Break

 

 2:05 pm          BRENT GOLDFARB, University of Maryland

                        Are Angels Preferred Venture Investors?

                        (Joint with Gerard Hoberg, David Kirsch, and Alexander Triantis)

 

                        Discussant: ENRICO PEROTTI, University of Amsterdam

 

 2:55 pm          DEBARSHI NANDY, York University

                        How Does Venture Capital Financing Improve Efficiency in Private Firms? A Look beneath the Surface

                        (Joint with Thomas Chemmanur and Karthik Krishnan)

 

                        Discussant: REBECCA ZARUTSKIE, Duke University

 

 3:45 pm          Adjourn

 

 

 

 

3/13/08