4th IZA Workshop on Entrepreneurship Research

Tuesday, July 09:

08:30	-	08:55		Registration and Welcome Coffee
08:55	-	09:00		Welcoming Remarks Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA) Alexander S. Kritikos (University of Potsdam, DIW Berlin and IZA)
				Session A
				Chair: Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA)
09:00	-	09:35		Peter Thompson (Florida International University), Joacim Tag (IFN - Research Institute of Industrial Economics), Thomas Astebro (HEC Paris)
				"Hierarchies, the Small Firm Effect, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swedish Microdata"
				Discussant: Michael Ewens (Carnegie Mellon University)
09:35	-	10:10		Luca Flabbi (Georgetown University and IZA), Mario Macis (Johns Hopkins University and IZA), Fabiano Schivardi (LUISS Guido Carli University), Andrea Moro (Vanderbilt University)
				"Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Firm Performance and Gender Gaps in Wages and Promotions"
				Discussant: Stephan Heblich (University of Stirling and IZA)
10:10	-	10:40		Coffee Break
				Session B
				Chair: Alicia Robb (Kauffman Foundation)
10:40	-	11:15		Manuela Angelucci (University of Michigan and IZA), Karina Cordova (University of Arizona)
				"Choice and Performance Under Stress: Are Men and Women Different?"
				Discussant: Henry Sauermann (Georgia Institute of Technology)
11:15	-	11:50		Anisa Shyti (HEC Paris)
				"Overconfidence and Entrepreneurial Choice under Ambiguity: Evidence from the Lab"
				Discussant: Philipp Koellinger (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
11:50	-	12:25		Amy Nguyen-Chyung (University of California, Berkeley)
				"How Entrepreneurial Do You Choose to Be? Talent, Risk Attitudes, Overconfidence "
				Discussant: Monica Garcia-Perez (St. Cloud State University)
12:25	-	14:00		Lunch
				Session C
				Chair: Alexander S. Kritikos (University of Potsdam, DIW Berlin and IZA)
14:00	-	14:35		Miriam Bruhn (World Bank), Dean Karlan (Yale University), Antoinette Schoar (MIT Sloan School of Management and IZA)
				"The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico"
				Discussant: Johan Hombert (HEC Paris)
14:35	-	15:10		Julie Delanote (K.U.Leuven), Dirk Czarnitzki (K.U. Leuven)
				"R&D Subsidies to Small Young Companies: Should the Independent and High-tech Ones Be Favored?"
				Discussant: Martin Weißenberger (University of Potsdam)
15:10	-	15:40		Coffee Break
				Keynote Speech
				Chair: Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA)
15:40	-	17:00		Robert W. Fairlie (University of California, Santa Cruz and IZA)
				"Economic Conditions, Race, Training, and Entrepreneurship"
18:00				Dinner

Wednesday, July 10:

08:30	-	09:00		Coffee
				Session D
				Chair: Alexander S. Kritikos (University of Potsdam, DIW Berlin and IZA)
09:00	-	09:35		Steffen Künn (IZA), Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA), Jens Hogenacker (IZA), Frank Wießner (Institute for Empoyment Research (IAB), Nuremberg)
				"Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups"
				Discussant: Miriam Bruhn (World Bank)
09:35	-	10:10		Johan Hombert (HEC Paris), Antoinette Schoar (MIT Sloan School of Management and IZA), David Sraer (Princeton University), David Thesmar (HEC Paris)
				"Should the Government Make It Safe to Start a Business? Evidence from a French Reform"
				Discussant: Julie Delanote (K.U.Leuven)
10:10	-	10:45		Martin Weißenberger (University of Potsdam), Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA), Steffen Künn (IZA)
				"The Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed and the Role of “Unobserved” Characteristics for Matching Estimators"
				Discussant: Luca Flabbi (Georgetown University and IZA)
10:45	-	11:15		Coffee Break
				Session E
				Chair: Sarah Bohn (Public Policy Institute of California)
11:15	-	11:50		Stephan Heblich (University of Stirling and IZA), Oliver Falck (University of Munich), Robert Gold (IfW - Institute for the World Economy)
				"Lifting the Iron Curtain: Schooling and Entrepreneurial Intentions of Students"
				Discussant: Amy Nguyen-Chyung (University of California, Berkeley)
11:50	-	12:25		Michael Ewens (Carnegie Mellon University), Christian Fons-Rosen (Pompeu Fabra University)
				"The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Firm Founding on Innovation"
				Discussant: Manuela Angelucci (University of Michigan and IZA)
12:25	-	13:00		Henry Sauermann (Georgia Institute of Technology)
				"Fire in the Belly? Employee Motives and Innovative Performance in Startups versus Established Firms"
				Discussant: Steffen Künn (IZA)
13:00	-	14:00		Lunch
				Session F
				Chair: Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA)
14:00	-	14:35		Philipp Koellinger (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Julija Mell (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Irene Pohl (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Christian Roessler (University of Vienna), Theresa Treffers (University of Munich)
				"Self-Employed but Looking: A Labor Market Experiment"
				Discussant: Peter Thompson (Florida International University)
14:35	-	15:10		Monica Garcia-Perez (St. Cloud State University), Christopher Goetz (St. Cloud State University), John C. Haltiwanger (University of Maryland and IZA), L. Kristin Sandusky (U.S. Census Bureau)
				"Don't Quit Your Day Job: Using Wage and Salary Earnings to Support a New Business"
				Discussant: Anisa Shyti (HEC Paris)

Recent Discussion Papers

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  Aaron K. Chatterji, Kenneth Y. Chay, Robert W. Fairlie
  IZA Discussion Paper No. 7298, March 2013.
  
  
• Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
  Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti
  IZA Discussion Paper No. 7459, June 2013.
  
  
• Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?
  Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman
  IZA Discussion Paper No. 7386, May 2013.
  
  
• Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
  Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn
  IZA Discussion Paper No. 7460, June 2013.