HEC Paris Entrepreneurship Workshop

Date: December 14-15, 2023

Location: HEC Paris, France

Organizers: Johan Hombert, Jessica Jeffers

 

The HEC Paris Entrepreneurship Workshop is a small-scale workshop that brings together researchers working in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation. It offers great opportunities for research discussions and interactions inside and outside the seminar room.

This year, for those interested in AI and the intersection of entrepreneurship and AI, the workshop is scheduled back-to-back with the HEC Paris Workshop on AI and Entrepreneurship, organized by Tom Astebro and Carlos Serrano, which will be held on Saturday, December 16.

 

Program

Thursday, December 14
Session 1: Technology and Business Dynamics
Technological Stickiness: Switching and Entry in the Long Transition from Water to Steam Power
Richard Hornbeck (Chicago), Shanon Hsuan-Ming Hsu (Chicago), Anders Humlum (Chicago), Martin Rotemberg* (NYU)
Discussant: Luise Eisfeld (HEC Lausanne)
New Technology and Business Dynamics
Hans K. Hvide* (University of Bergen), Tom G. Meling (Ohio State University)
Discussant: Thorsten Martin (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)
The Impact of Cloud Computing and AI on Industry Dynamics and Competition
Yao Lu (Tsinghua), Gordon Phillips* (Dartmouth College), Jia Yang (Tsinghua)
Discussant: Simon Bunel (Banque de France)
Session 2: R&D
Excess Commitment in R&D
Marius Guenzel* (Wharton), Tong Liu (MIT Sloan)
Discussant: Discussant: David Robinson (Duke)
Friday, December 15
Session 3: Venture Capital
Tolerating Losses for Growth: How US Venture Capitalists Invest Abroad
Thomas Hellmann* (Oxford University), Alexander Montag (Indiana University), Joacim Tåg (IFN)
Discussant: Katarina Warg (CBS)
Catching Outliers: Committee Voting and the Limits of Consensus when Financing Innovation
Andrey Malenko (University of Michigan), Ramana Nanda (Imperial College), Matt Rhodes-Kropf (MIT Sloan), Savitar Sundaresan* (Imperial College)
Discussant: Markus Parlasca (WU Vienna)
Session 4: Under-Represented Innovators
Are Patents with Female Inventors Under-Cited? Evidence from Causal Text Estimation
Yael V. Hochberg (Rice), Ali Kakhbod (UC Berkeley), Peiyao Li (UC Berkeley), Kunal Sachdeva* (Rice)
Discussant: Matthias Qian (ESMT)
America's Missing Entrepreneurs
Raj Chetty (Harvard), Gaia Dossi (LSE), Matthew Smith (US Treasury), John Van Reenen (LSE, MIT), Owen Zidar (Princeton), Eric Zwick* (Chicago Booth)
Discussant: Fabiano Schivardi (LUISS)
Session 5: Financing & Firm Growth
Great Recession Babies: How Are Startups Shaped by Macro Conditions at Birth?
Daniel Bias* (Vanderbilt), Alexander Ljungqvist (Stockholm School of Economics)
Discussant: Noémie Pinardon-Touati (Columbia)
Finance and Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Deniz Aydin (WUSTL), Olivia S. Kim* (HBS)
Discussant: Kim Fe Cramer (LSE)
*Presenting author

Previous Workshop Programs

2022 Program

2021 Program

2019 Program

2018 Program