NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting

 

Josh Lerner, Organizer

 

March 9, 2007

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 8:

 

 6:00 pm          Group Dinner

                        Dante

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

                        Cambridge, MA

                       

FRIDAY, MARCH 9:

 

 8:00 am          Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

 

 8:15 am          Shuttle Vans Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

 

Revisionist Views of the Technology Bubble

 

 9:00 am          BRENT GOLDFARB, University of Maryland

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, Brown University and NBER

 

10:55 am         Break

 

Capital Constraints Revisited

 

11:10 am         KAIVIN MUNSHI, Brown University and NBER

                        From Farming to International Business:

The Social Auspices of Entrepreneurship in a Growing Economy

 

Discussant:  ASIM IJAZ KHWAJA, Harvard University

 

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, Harvard University

RAMANA NANDA, MIT

Banking Deregulation, Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

 

Discussant, PHIL STRAHAN, Boston College and NBER

 

 3:05 pm          CAMILO MONDRAGON-VELEZ, Georgetown University

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