6th IZA/Kauffman Foundation Workshop on Entrepreneurship Research

Wednesday, September 16:

08:30	-	08:55		Registration
08:55	-	09:00		Welcoming Remarks
				Session A: Jobs & Decisions
				Chair: Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA)
09:00	-	09:35		Robert W. Fairlie (University of California, Santa Cruz and IZA)
				"Taking the Leap: The Determinants of Entrepreneurs Hiring their First Employee"
				Discussant: Nicholas W. Papageorge (Johns Hopkins University)
09:35	-	10:10		Thomas B. Astebro (HEC Paris), Joacim Tag (IFN, Stockholm)
				"Jobs Incorporated: Incorporation Status and Job Creation"
				Discussant: Benjamin Pugsley (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
10:10	-	10:45		Nicholas W. Papageorge (Johns Hopkins University), Barton H. Hamilton (Washington University, St. Louis), Nidhi Pande (University of Dehli)
				"The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship"
				Discussant: Thomas B. Astebro (HEC Paris)
10:45	-	11:15		Coffee Break
				Session B: Institutional Environment I
				Chair: E. J. Reedy (Kauffman Foundation)
11:15	-	11:50		James Brown (Iowa State University), Gustav Martinsson (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm), Christian Thomann (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
				"What if Firms Could Borrow More? Evidence from a Natural Experiment"
				Discussant: Christopher Goetz (U.S. Census Bureau)
11:50	-	12:25		Frank M. Fossen (Free University of Berlin and IZA), Johannes Koenig (Free University of Berlin)
				"Public Health Insurance, Individual Health, and Entry Into Entrepreneurship"
				Discussant: Zuzana Brixiova (University of Cape Town and IZA )
12:25	-	14:00		Lunch
				Session C: Institutional Environment II
				Chair: Alexander S. Kritikos (University of Potsdam, DIW Berlin and IZA)
14:00	-	14:35		Ting Xu (University of British Columbia)
				"Financial Disintermediation and Entrepreneurial Learning: Evidence from the Crowdfunding Market"
				Discussant: Frank M. Fossen (Free University of Berlin and IZA)
14:35	-	15:10		Andreas Mazat (Ifo Institute for Economic Research)
				"Broadband Infrastructure and Entrepreneurship"
				Discussant: Ting Xu (University of British Columbia)
15:10	-	15:40		Coffee Break
				Session D: Macro & Data
				Chair: E. J. Reedy (Kauffman Foundation)
15:40	-	16:15		Christopher Goetz (U.S. Census Bureau), Henry Hyatt (U.S. Census Bureau and IZA), Erika McEntarfer (U.S. Census Bureau), Kristin Sandusky (U.S. Census Bureau)
				"New Public Use Data to Study Entrepreneurship from Linked Employer-Employee Data"
				Discussant: Andreas Mazat (Ifo Institute for Economic Research)
16:15	-	16:50		Benjamin Pugsley (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Fatih Karahan (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Aysegul Sahin (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
				"Understanding the 30-year Decline in Business Formation: A General Equilibrium Approach"
				Discussant: James Brown (Iowa State University)

Thursday, September 17:

				Session E: Developing Economies
				Chair: Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA)
09:00	-	09:35		Zuzana Brixiova (University of Cape Town and IZA ), Mthuli Ncube (University of Oxford)
				"The Business Environment, Education, and Entrepreneurship in Low Income Countries"
				Discussant: Robert W. Fairlie (University of California, Santa Cruz and IZA)
09:35	-	10:10		David McKenzie (World Bank and IZA), Susana Puerto (ILO)
				"The Direct and Spillover Impacts of a Business Training Program for Female Entrepreneurs in Kenya"
				Discussant: Jose Miguel Benavente (Inter-American Development Bank)
10:10	-	10:40		Coffee Break
10:40	-	12:00		Keynote Speech
				Chair: Alexander S. Kritikos (University of Potsdam, DIW Berlin and IZA)
				Antoinette Schoar (MIT Sloan School of Management and IZA)
				"Insights from Behavioral Economics for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries"
12:00	-	13:30		Lunch
13:30	-	16:15		"Policy Panel: Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies"

Thomas B. Astebro (HEC Paris)
Philip Auerswald (Kauffman Foundation and Global Entrepreneurship Research Network)
Zuzana Brixiova (African Development Bank and IZA)
James Brown (Iowa State University)
Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam and IZA)
Robert W. Fairlie (University of California, Santa Cruz and IZA)
Frank M. Fossen (Free University of Berlin and IZA)
Christopher Goetz (U.S. Census Bureau)
Pamela Jakiela (University of Maryland and IZA)
Alexander S. Kritikos (University of Potsdam, DIW Berlin and IZA)
Mario Macis (Johns Hopkins University and IZA)
Andreas Mazat (Ifo Institute for Economic Research)
Isaac M. Mbiti (University of Virginia and IZA)
David McKenzie (World Bank and IZA)
Oscar A. Mitnik (University of Miami and IZA)
Nicholas W. Papageorge (Johns Hopkins University)
Benjamin Pugsley (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
E.J. Reedy (Kauffman Foundation)
Antoinette Schoar (MIT Sloan School of Management and IZA)
Francis Vella (Georgetown University and IZA)
Ting Xu (University of British Columbia)

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