NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH
Entrepreneurship Working Group
Meeting
Josh Lerner,
Organizer
March 9,
2007
NBER
2nd Floor Conference
Room
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, MARCH
8:
6:00 pm
Group Dinner
Dante
Royal
Sonesta Hotel
FRIDAY, MARCH
9:
8:00 am
Shuttle
Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for
8:15 am
Shuttle
Vans Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
Revisionist Views of the
Technology Bubble
9:00 am
BRENT GOLDFARB,
Was there too Little
Entry in the Dot Com Era?
(joint
with DAVID KIRSCH and DAVID MILLER)
Discussant: SHANE GREENSTEIN,
Northwestern University and NBER
10:00 am
LUBOS PASTOR, University of Chicago and NBER
Entrepreneurial
Learning, the IPO Decision, and the Post-IPO Drop in Firm
Profitability
(joint with PIETRO VERONESI and LUCIAN
TAYLOR),
Discussant: IVO WELCH,
10:55 am
Break
Capital Constraints
Revisited
11:10 am
KAIVIN MUNSHI,
From Farming to
International Business:
The Social Auspices of Entrepreneurship in a Growing Economy
Discussant: ASIM IJAZ KHWAJA,
12:05 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
LEORA KLAPPER, The World Bank
The Origins of
Self-Employment
(joint
with ASLI DEMIRGUC-KUNT and GEORGIOS PANOS)
Discussant: SIMON JOHNSON, MIT and
NBER
1:55 pm
Break
The Growth and Evolution of
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets
2:10 pm
WILLIAM KERR,
RAMANA NANDA,
MIT
Banking Deregulation,
Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
Discussant, PHIL STRAHAN,
3:05 pm
CAMILO MONDRAGON-VELEZ,
The Transition to
Entrepreneurship:
Human Capital, Wealth and the Role of Liquidity Constraints
Discussant: FRANCISCO BUERRA,
Northwestern University
4:00 pm
Adjourn
3/6/07