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







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