NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH



Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting



Josh Lerner, Organizer



March 19, 2004



NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PROGRAM



THURSDAY, MARCH 18:



6:30 PM Group Dinner

Davios at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA



FRIDAY, MARCH 19:



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:00 AM BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER

The Pre-Producers



Discussant: DAVID EVANS, NERA



10:00 AM Break



10:15 AM SIMON JOHNSON, MIT and NBER

Unbundling Institutions

(Joint with DARON ACEMOGLU)



Discussant: ENRICO PEROTTI, University of Amsterdam



11:15 AM PHILIPPE AGHION, University College London and NBER

Entry and Innovation: Theory and Evidence from UK and India



Discussant: FIONA SCOTT-MORTON, Yale University and NBER



12:15 PM Lunch







1:00 PM ROBERT FAIRLIE, UC, Santa Cruz

Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than

White-Owned Businesses?

The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital

(Joint with ALICIA ROBB)



Discussant: TIMOTHY BATES, Wayne State University



2:00 PM Break



2:15 PM BRUCE FALLICK and CHARLES FLEISCHMAN, Federal Reserve Board

JAMES REBITZER, Case Western Reserve University and NBER

Job Hopping in Silicon Valley:

The Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster



Discussant: DAVID SCHARFSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER

3:15 PM Panel: What is the State of Entrepreneurship Data, and What Should

We be Doing About It?

DIANE BURTON, MIT

JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

ROBERT LITAN, Kauffman Foundation



4:15 PM Adjourn









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