NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

International Differences in Entrepreneurship Pre-conference

 

Joshua Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

 

May 11, 2007

 

NBER

3rd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, MAY 10:

 

 7:00 PM          Group Dinner

                        The Elephant Walk

2067 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

617/492-6900

 

FRIDAY, MAY 11:

 

 8:15 am          Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 9:00 am          Sri Lanka and Mexico

SURESH DE MEL, University of Peradeniya

DAVID MCKENZIE, The World Bank

CHRISTOPHER WOODRUFF, UC, San Diego

Small Scale Enterprise Owners in Developing Countries:

Entrepreneurs or Subsistence Workers?                   

 

 9:30 am          France

CLAIRE LELARGE, French Ministry of Industry

DAVID SRAER, INSEE

DAVID THESMAR, HEC Paris

Loan Guarantee Programs to Foster Small Business Growth 

 

10:00 am         90 Countries

RAFFI AMIT and MAURO GUILLEN, University of Pennsylvania

LEORA KLAPPER, The World Bank

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development           

 

10:30 am         Break

 

10:45 am         Canada

JAMES BRANDER, EDWARD EGAN and THOMAS HELLMANN,

University of British Columbia

Government Sponsored Venture Capital in Canada: Effects on Value Creation, Competition and Innovation                              

 

11:15 am         Colombia

CAMILO MONDRAGON VELEZ and XIMENA PENA, Georgetown University

Entrepreneurship Types and Informal Markets: The Colombian Case                       

 

11:45 am         Asian businesses in US, UK, Canada

ROBERT W. FAIRLIE, UC, Santa Cruz

JULIE ZISSIMOPOULOS, RAND Corporation

The International Asian Business Success Story:

A Comparison of Chinese, Indian and Other Asian Businesses in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom

 

12:15 pm         Lunch

 

 1:15 pm          China

                        YASHENG HUANG, MIT

            Why is Entrepreneurship Missing in Shanghai?         

 

 1:45 pm          38 developed & developing nations    

                        SILVIA ARDAGNA, Harvard University      

                        ANNAMARIA LUSARDI, Dartmouth College and NBER

Explaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship:

The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints.                 

 

 2:15 pm          Break

 

 2:30 pm          Brazil

SIMEON DJANKOV, The World Bank

YINGYI QIAN and GÉRARD ROLAND, UC, Berkeley

EKATERINA ZHURAVSKAYA, CEFIR

Entrepreneurship in Brazil      

 

 3:00 pm          Peru

                        SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, MIT and NBER

PHILIPP SCHNABL, Harvard University

Business Simplification in Peru

 

 3:30 pm          India

                        RAJKAMAL IYER, University of Amsterdam

ANTOINETTE SCHOAR, MIT and NBER

Are there Cultural Determinants of Entrepreneurship?

 

4:00pm            Adjourn

 

 

4/30/07