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
Discussant: DAVID EVANS, NERA
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM SIMON JOHNSON, MIT and NBER
(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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