1st Joint DIW Berlin/IZA Workshop on Entrepreneurship Research

Thursday, February 25:

09:00	-	09:15		Introduction by Marco Caliendo (Research Director of IZA) and Alexander Kritikos (DIW Berlin and IZA)
09:15	-	10:00		Utz Weitzel (Utrecht University), Diemo Urbig (Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena), Sameeksha Desai (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Zoltan Acs (George Mason University), Mark Sanders (Utrecht University)
				"The Good, the Bad, and the Talented: Entrepreneurial Talent and Other-Regarding Behavior"
				Discussant: Milo Bianchi (Paris School of Economics)
10:00	-	10:45		David Croson (SMU Cox School of Business), Maria Minniti (SMU Cox School of Business)
				"Slipping the Surly Bonds: The Value of Autonomy in Self-Employment"
				Discussant: Joana Mendonca (Technical University of Lisbon)
10:45	-	11:00		Coffee Break
11:00	-	11:45		Alina Rusakova (University of Jena), Michael Fritsch (FSU Jena)
				"Entrepreneurship and Cultural Creativity"
				Discussant: Ulrich Kaiser (University of Zurich)
11:45	-	12:30		Frank M. Fossen (DIW Berlin), Marco Caliendo (IZA), Alexander Kritikos (DIW Berlin and IZA)
				"Personality Traits and Entrepreneurship"
				Discussant: Mirjam C. van Praag (University of Amsterdam)
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch
14:00	-	14:45		Marco Vivarelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Gabriele Pellegrino (Università Cattolica di Milano-Piacenza), Mariacristina Piva (Università Cattolica di Milano-Piacenza)
				"How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate?"
				Discussant: Simon C. Parker (University of Western Ontario)
14:45	-	15:30		Georgios A. Panos (University of Aberdeen), Hans K. Hvide (University of Aberdeen and IZA)
				"Are Entrepreneurs Different? A Quasi-Experiment Using Stock Market Data"
				Discussant: Robert W. Fairlie (University of California, Santa Cruz)
15:30	-	15:45		Coffee Break
15:45	-	16:30		Mirjam C. van Praag (University of Amsterdam), Arjen van Witteloostuijn (University of Antwerp), Justin van der Sluis (University of Amsterdam)
				"Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs Vis-à-Vis Wage Employees"
				Discussant: Alicia Robb (University of California, Santa Cruz)
16:30	-	17:15		Katrin Burmeister-Lamp (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Moren Levesque (Schulich School of Business, York University), Christian Schade (Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies and Innovation Management, Humboldt University Berlin)
				"Could it be time to leave your salaried job? An experimental analysis of entrepreneur's time allocation under risk-return tradeoffs"
				Discussant: Frank M. Fossen (DIW Berlin)
19:00				Workshop Dinner

Friday, February 26:

09:30	-	10:45		Keynote David Audretsch (Indiana University) "Entrepreneurs: Why Do They Do it and Why Does it Matter?"
10:45	-	11:00		Coffee Break
11:00	-	11:45		Robert W. Fairlie (University of California, Santa Cruz), Kanika Kapur (University College Dublin), Susan Gates (RAND)
				"Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?"
				Discussant: David Croson (SMU Cox School of Business)
11:45	-	12:30		Simon C. Parker (University of Western Ontario), C. Mirjam van Praag (University of Amsterdam and IZA)
				"The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?"
				Discussant: Georgios A. Panos (University of Aberdeen)
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch
14:00	-	14:45		Ulrich Kaiser (University of Zurich), Nikolaj Malchow-Moller (University of Southern Denmark at Odense)
				"Is Self--Employment Really a Bad Experience? The Effects of Previous Self-Employment on Subsequent Wage-Employment"
				Discussant: Marco Vivarelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
14:45	-	15:30		Joop Hartog (University of Amsterdam), Mirjam van Praag (University of Amsterdam and IZA), Justin van der Sluis (University of Amsterdam)
				"If you are so smart, why aren’t you an entrepreneur? Returns to cognitive and social ability: Entrepreneurs versus employees"
				Discussant: Katrin Burmeister-Lamp (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
15:30	-	15:45		Coffee Break
15:45	-	16:30		Milo Bianchi (Paris School of Economics)
				"Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction"
				Discussant: Alina Rusakova (University of Jena)
16:30	-	17:15		Joana Mendonca (Technical University of Lisbon), Rui Baptista (Technical University of Lisbon), Francisco Lima (Technical University of Lisbon)
				"Differentiating the Role Played by Founders’ Human Capital in the Performance of Firms"
				Discussant: Diemo Urbig (University of Antwerp)