The NBER and the Indian School of Business (ISB) inaugurated an annual meeting series on December 17–18, 2022, with a conference on Entrepreneurship, Public Policy, and Economic Outcomes. The program, organized by Shilpa Aggarwal of ISB and Amit Seru of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the NBER, featured 10 papers addressing various aspects of small business creation and the role of new enterprises in India and North America.
NBER Board Chair John Lipsky and ISB Dean Madan Pillutla participated in the conference and delivered welcoming remarks. The conference was the first in what will be a yearly series of meetings focusing on topics of interest to research economists in both India and North America.