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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2016 Entrepreneurship

Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

July 18, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Ballroom A
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Monday, July 18
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER Hans Hvide, University of Bergen The Roles of Nature and Nurture in Entrepreneurial Success Discussant: Geoff Tate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBER
9:45 am	Francisco Queiro, Harvard University The Effect of Manager Education on Firm Growth Discussant: Geoff Tate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBER
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Kyle Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota Gordon Phillips, Dartmouth College and NBER Ethan Cohen-Cole, University of Maryland The Impact of Consumer Credit Access on Employment, Earnings and Entrepreneurship Discussant: Jialan Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne
11:30 am	Ilya Strebulaev, Stanford University and NBER Paul Gompers, Harvard University and NBER William Gornall, University of British Columbia Steven Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? Discussant: Felda Hardymon, Bessemer Venture Partners
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	David Clingingsmith, Case Western Reserve University Scott Shane, Case Western Reserve University Training Aspiring Entrepreneurs to Pitch Experienced Investors: Evidence from a Field Experiment Discussant: Sabrina Howell, New York University
2:15 pm	Ramana Nanda, Harvard University and NBER Sampsa Samila, National University of Singapore Olav Sorenson, Yale University The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital Discussant: Arthur Korteweg, University of Southern California
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Joshua Gottlieb, University of British Columbia and NBER Richard Townsend, Dartmouth College Ting Xu, University of British Columbia Experimenting with Entrepreneurship: The Effect of Job-Protected Leave Discussant: Adrien Matray, Princeton University
4:00 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, July 20
12:00 n	Lunch
	Joint session with the Innovation group
1:00 pm	Abhishek Nagaraj, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Private Impact of Public Maps – Landsat Satellite Imagery and Gold Exploration Discussant: TBA
1:45 pm	Jonas Hjort, Columbia University and NBER Jonas Poulsen, Uppsala University The Arrival of Fast Internet and Skilled Job Creation in Africa Discussant: Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Michela Giorcelli, Stanford University The Long-Term Effects of Management and Technology Transfer: Evidence from the US Productivity Program Discussant: Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
3:45 pm	Joan Farre-Mensa, Harvard University Deepak Hegde, New York University Alexander Ljungqvist, New York University and NBER The Bright Side of Patents Discussant: Heidi Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
4:30 pm	Adjourn