NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting
Josh Lerner, Organizer
October 10, 2003
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM R. GLENN HUBBARD, Columbia University and NBER
JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER
Tax Policy and Entry into Entrepreneurialship
Discussant: JULIE CULLEN, University of Michigan and NBER
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM FRANCESCO CASELLI, Harvard University and NBER
NICOLA GENNAIOLI, Harvard University
Discussant: RAY FISMAN, Columbia University and NBER
11:15 AM DAVID MACKENZIE, Stanford University
CHRIS WOODRUFF, UC, San Diego
Do Entry Costs Provide an Empirical Basis for Poverty Traps?
Evidence from Mexican Microenterprises
Discussant: PAUL GOMPERS, Harvard University and NBER
12:15 PM Lunch
1:15 PM AUGUSTIN LANDIER, University of Chicago
Financial Contracting with Optimistic Entrepreneurs: Theory and Evidence
(Joint with DAVID THESMAR, INSEE)
Discussant: JEREMY STEIN, Harvard University and NBER
2:15 PM Break
2:30 PM Panel Discussion:
How Other Fields View Entrepreneurship and What Economists
Can Learn from Them
ANNE MINER, University of Wisconsin
JOEL PODOLNY, Harvard University
SCOTT SHANE, Case-Western Reserve University
3:30 PM Adjourn
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