NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Entrepreneurship
Working Group Meeting
Josh
Lerner, Organizer
October
20, 2006
NBER
2nd
Floor Conference Room
Cambridge,
Massachusetts
PRELIMINARY
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19:
6:30 pm Group
Dinner
Legal Sea Foods, Kendall Square
5 Cambridge Center, Corner of 6th and Main
Cambridge, MA
FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 20:
8:30 am Shuttle
Vans Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for
8:45 am Continental
Breakfast
Entrepreneurial Entry and
Growth
9:15 am JAVIER MIRANDA, Bureau of the Census
Volatility and
Dispersion in Business Growth Rates: Publicly Traded versus Privately Held
Firms
(Joint
with STEVEN DAVIS, JOHN HALTIWANGER, and RON JARMIN)
Discussant:
RICHARD CAVES, Harvard University
10:15 am Break
10:30 am DAVID
MCKENZIE, The World Bank
CHRIS
WOODRUFF, UC, San Diego
Returns to Capital
in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(Joint
with SURESH DE MEL)
Discussant:
SHAWN COLE, Harvard University
The Dynamics of Venture
Capital
11:25 am THOMAS
HELLMANN, University of British Columbia
The Importance of
Trust for Investment: Evidence from Venture Capital
(Joint
with LAURA BOTTAZZI and MARCO DA RIN)
Discussant:
REBECCA ZARUTSKIE, Duke University
12:20 pm Lunch
1:05 pm MORTEN SORENSEN, University of Chicago
Learning by
Investing: Evidence from Venture Capital
Discussant:
DIRK BERGEMANN,
2:00 pm Panel
Discussion
Where
is the Venture Capital Going? And Does it Matter?
PAUL
GOMPERS,
BILL
HELMAN, Greylock Partners
PHILIP
ROTNER, MIT
3:00 pm Break
3:10 pm YAEL HOCHBERG, Northwestern University
Networking as a
Barrier to Entry and the Competitive Supply of
(Joint
with ALEXANDER LJUNGVIST and YANG LU)
Discussant:
TOBY STUART,
4:05 pm Adjourn
10/2/06