NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting

 

Josh Lerner, Organizer

 

March 10, 2006

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 9:

 

 6:30 pm          Group Dinner

                        Location to Be Announced

                       

FRIDAY, MARCH 10:

 

 8:15 am          Shuttle Van Departs The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Ave.

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

Entrepreneurship in the Service Sector

9:00 am           FRANCINE LAFONTAINE, University of Michigan

Firm Survival and Growth in Retail and Service Industries:

Evidence from Franchised Chains

(Joint with RENATA KOSOVA)

Discussant: ERIC VAN DEN STEEN, MIT

10:00 am         Break

10:15 am         IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

Business Method Patents: What Are They Good for?  Patenting and the Survival Of Internet-Related IPOs

(Joint with STEFAN WAGNER)

Discussant: BARUCH LEV, New York University

DAVID BLANCHFLOWER, Dartmouth College and NBER

JON WAINWRIGHT, NERA Economic Consulting

An Analysis of the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs on Self-Employment in the Construction Industry

Discussant: To be announced 

12:15 pm         Lunch

 

Entrepreneurial Finance

 

 1:15 pm          ANTOINETTE SCHOAR, MIT and NBER

Judge Specific Differences in Chapter 11 and the Effect on Firm Outcomes?

 

Discussant: KARIN THORBURN, Dartmouth College

 

 2:15 pm          Break

 

 2:30 pm          ROBERT FAIRLIE, UC, Santa Cruz

                        HARRY KRASHINSKY, University of Toronto

Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited

 

Discussant: ANNAMARIA LUSARDI, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER

An Estimated Model of the Market for Venture Capital

(Joint with BALAZS SZENTES)

 

Discussant: LUCY WHITE, Harvard University

 

 4:30 pm          Adjourn

 

 

 

3/2/06