Programme

19:00

Pre Conference Dinner
Elite Hotel Marina Tower, for conference participants arriving on Friday

08:30-08:45

Registration

08:45-09:00

Welcome address by Magnus Henrekson on behalf of the organising committee

SESSION 1
Chair: Joacim Tåg

09:00-10:00

Integration, Delegation, and Management
Patrick Legros, ECARES and CEPR (with Andy Newman)
Discussant: Yossi Spiegel

10:00-11:00

An Estimated Structural Model of Entrepreneurial Behavior
Sangeeta Pratap, City University of New York (with John Bailey Jones)
Discussant: Nikita Koptyug

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

SESSION 2
Chair: Joacim Tåg

11:30-12:30

Owner Liquidity and Survivorship of Entrepreneurial Firms 
Tobin Hanspal, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Egle Karmaziene

12:30-13:30

The Bank Lending Channel and Corporate Innovation
Spyridon Lagaras, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Laurent Bach

13:30-14:30

Lunch

SESSION 3
CHAIR: Joacim Tåg

14:30-15:30

The Returns to Training in a Low Income Labor Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment and Structural Model​
Vittorio Bassi, University College London (with Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitali)
Discussant: Giacomo De Giorgio

15:30-16:30

Kinship Taxation as a Constraint to Microenterprise Growth: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Munir Squires, London School of Economics
Discussant: Fabiano Schivardi

16:30-16:45

Coffee Break

SESSION 4
Chair: Joacim Tåg

16:45-17:45

Patents and the Success of Venture-Capital Backed Startups: Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects
Patrick Gaulé, CERGE-EI, Prague
Discussant: Thomas Seiler

17:45-18:45

Embracing the Sharks: The Impact of Information Exposure on the Likelihood and Quality of CVC Investments
Pooyan Khashabi, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (with Ali Mohammadi)
Discussant: Samuele Murtinu

19:15

Meet on the staircase outside the entrance door for group photo

19:30-22:00

Short walk to and dinner at the restaurant Docklands, Finnboda harbour

SESSION 5
Chair: Nikita Koptyug

09:00-10:00

(Crowd)funding Innovation: Financing Constraints, Price Discrimination and Welfare
David Zvilichovsky, Tel Aviv University (with Noam Shamir)
Discussant: Lars Persson

10:00-11:00

Antitrust, Patents, and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Bell Labs
Martin Watzinger, University of Munich (with Thomas Fackler, Markus Nagler and Monika Schnitzer)
Discussant: Pehr-Johan Norbäck

11:00-11:30

Coffee (and check-out from the hotel)

SESSION 6
Chair: Nikita Koptyug

11:30-12:30

Do Entrepreneurs Shy Away from Competition? Tournament in Workplaces and Transition to Entrepreneurship
Francesca Melillo, Catholic University of Leuven (with Virgilio Failla and Toke Reichstein)
Discussant: Mirjam van Praag

12:30-13:30

On the Origins of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Sibling Correlations
Theodor Vladasel, Copenhagen Business School (with Matthew J. Lindquist, Joeri Sol, C. Mirjam van Praag)
Discussant: Daniel Metzger

13:30-14:30

Lunch

14:30-14:45

Closing remarks