NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

International Differences in Entrepreneurship Pre-conference

 

Joshua Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

 

February 1 and 2, 2008

 

Mansion on Forsyth Park

700 Drayton Street

Savannah, Georgia

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, JANUARY 31:

 

 7:00 PM          Reception and Group Dinner

                       

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1:

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 9:00 am          Colombia

CAMILO MONDRAGON VELEZ and XIMENA PENA, Georgetown University

Entrepreneurship Types and Informal Markets: 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

Loan Guarantee Programs to Foster Small Business Growth 

 

                        Discussant: SHAWN COLE, 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

 

 1:15 pm          90 Countries

                        RAFFI AMIT and MAURO GUILLEN, University of Pennsylvania

                        LEORA KLAPPER, The World Bank

                        Entrepreneurship and Economic Development           

 

                        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          India

                        RAJKAMAL IYER, University of Amsterdam

ANTOINETTE SCHOAR, MIT and NBER

Are there Cultural Determinants of Entrepreneurship?

 

                        Discussant: MORTEN SORENSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 4:30 pm          China

                        YASHENG HUANG, MIT

            Why is Entrepreneurship Missing in Shanghai?         

 

                        Discussant: RANDALL MORCK, University of Alberta and NBER

 

 5:30 pm          Adjourn

 

 7:00 pm          Reception and Group Dinner

 

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2:

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 9:00 am          38 developed & developing nations    

                        SILVIA ARDAGNA, Harvard University

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:  ROHINI PANDE, Harvard University

 

11:00 am         Break

 

11:15 am         Sri Lanka and Mexico

SURESH DE MEL, University of Peradeniya

DAVID MCKENZIE, The World Bank

CHRISTOPHER WOODRUFF, UC, San Diego

Small Scale Enterprise Owners in Developing Countries:

Entrepreneurs or Subsistence Workers?

 

                        Discussant:  TAVENEET SURI, MIT

 

12:15 pm         Lunch

 

 1:15 pm          Brazil

SIMEON DJANKOV, The World Bank

YINGYI QIAN and GÉRARD ROLAND, UC, Berkeley

EKATERINA ZHURAVSKAYA, CEFIR

Entrepreneurship in Brazil      

 

                        Discussant:  PAOLA SAPIENZA, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 2:15 pm          Adjourn                                                                                                           

 

 

 

 

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