NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Entrepreneurship
Working Group Meeting
Josh
Lerner, Organizer
October
15, 2004
NBER
1050
Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge,
Massachusetts
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14:
7:00 PM Group Dinner
Davios at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
8:45 AM Ideas and Entrepreneurship
THOMAS HELLMANN, University of British Columbia
The Circulation of
Ideas: Firms versus Markets
(Joint with ENRICO PEROTTI)
Discussant: SCOTT STERN, Northwestern
University and NBER
MARIE THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Shirking, Sharing
Risk, and Shelving:
The Role of University License Contracts
(Joint with JERRY THURSBY and EMMANUEL DECHENAUX)
Discussant: FIONA MURRAY, MIT
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM Corruption and Entrepreneurship
RAFAEL DI TELLA, Harvard University
Why Doesn't
Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?
(Joint with ROBERT MACCULLOCH)
and
Property Rights and
Beliefs: Evidence from the
Allocation of Land Titles to Squatters
(Joint with SEBASTIAN GALIANI and ERNESTO SCHARGRODSKY)
Discussant: NITTAI BERGMAN, MIT
12:00 N Lunch
12:45 PM Stock Market Bubbles and Their Impact
JOHN GRAHAM, Duke University
Corporate Survival
and Managerial Experiences During the Great Depression
(Joint with KRISHNA NARASIMHAN)
Discussant: YAEL HOCHBERG, Cornell University
PIETRO VERONESI, University of Chicago and NBER
Was there a Nasdaq
bubble in the late 1990s?
(Joint with LUBOS PASTOR)
Discussant: JOHN CAMPBELL, Harvard University
and NBER
2:45 PM Break
3:00 PM Panel Discussion:
The NASDAQ Bubble and Its Implications:
What Don't We Understand
TIM BRESNAHAN, Stanford University
and NBER
WILLIAM JANEWAY, Warburg Pincus
LUIGI ZINGALES, University of Chicago and NBER
4:00 PM Adjourn
10/4/04