NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

International Differences in Entrepreneurship Conference

Joshua Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

February 1 and 2, 2008

Mansion on Forsyth Park

Viennese 2

700 Drayton Street

Savannah, Georgia

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, JANUARY 31:

7:00 PM Reception and Group Dinner

Room – Viennese 2

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1:

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

9:00 am Colombia

CAMILO MONDRAGON VELEZ, International Finance Corporation

XIMENA PENA, Universidad de los Andes

Business Ownership and Self-Employment in Developing Economies - The Colombian Case

Discussant: RAMANA NANDA, Harvard University

10:00 am France

CLAIRE LELARGE, French Ministry of Industry

DAVID SRAER, INSEE

DAVID THESMAR, HEC Paris

Entrepreneurship and Credit Constraints Evidence from a French Loan Guarantee Program

Discussant: SHAWN COLE, Harvard University

11:00 am Break

11:15 am India

RAJKAMAL IYER, University of Amsterdam

ANTOINETTE SCHOAR, MIT and NBER

Are there Cultural Determinants of Entrepreneurship?

Discussant: MORTEN SORENSEN, University of Chicago and NBER

12:15 pm Lunch – Marble Garden Courtyard

1:15 pm 90 Countries

LEORA KLAPPER, The World Bank

RAFFI AMIT and MAURO GUILLEN, University of Pennsylvania

Entrepreneurship and Firm Formation across Countries

Discussant: LAURA ALFARO, Harvard University and NBER

2:15 pm Asian businesses in US, UK, Canada

ROBERT W. FAIRLIE, UC, Santa Cruz

JULIE ZISSIMOPOULOS, RAND Corporation

The International Asian Business Success Story? A Comparison of Chinese, Indian and Other Asian Businesses in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom

Discussant: WILLIAM KERR, Harvard University

3:15 pm Break

3:30 pm Sri Lanka and Mexico

SURESH DE MEL, University of Peradeniya

DAVID MCKENZIE, The World Bank

CHRISTOPHER WOODRUFF, UC, San Diego

Who are the Microenterprise Owners?: Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto

Discussant: TAVNEET SURI, MIT and NBER

4:30 pm China

YI QIAN, Northwestern University

Is Entrepreneurship Missing in Shanghai?

(Joint with YASHENG HUANG, MIT)

Discussant: RANDALL MORCK, University of Alberta and NBER

5:30 pm Adjourn

7:00 pm Reception and Group Dinner

Room – Viennese 1

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2:

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

9:00 am 38 developed & developing nations

SILVIA ARDAGNA, Harvard University

ANNAMARIA LUSARDI, Dartmouth College and NBER

Explaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints

Discussant: BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER

10:00 am Peru

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, MIT and NBER

PHILIPP SCHNABL, Harvard University

Business Simplification in Peru

Discussant: ASIM IJAZ KHWAJA, Harvard University

11:00 am Break

11:15 am Canada

JAMES BRANDER, EDWARD EGAN and THOMAS HELLMANN,

University of British Columbia

Government Sponsored Venture Capital in Canada:

Effects on Value Creation, Competition and Innovation

Discussant: SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER

12:15 pm Lunch – Marble Garden Courtyard

1:15 pm Brazil

SIMEON DJANKOV, The World Bank

YINGYI QIAN and GÉRARD ROLAND, UC, Berkeley

EKATERINA ZHURAVSKAYA, CEFIR

What Makes an Entrepreneur?

Discussant: PAOLA SAPIENZA, Northwestern University and NBER

2:15 pm Adjourn

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