HEC Paris Entrepreneurship Workshop

Date: December 10-11, 2021

Location: HEC Paris, France

Organizers: Johan Hombert, Jean-Noël Barrot

Program
Friday, December 10
Session 1: Beliefs (13.30 - 16.00 CET)
Partisan Entrepreneurship
Joseph Engelberg (UC San Diego), Jorge Guzman* (Columbia), Runjing Lu (U. Alberta), William Mullins (UC San Diego)
Discussant: Nataliya Gerasimova (NHH)
Entrepreneur Debt Aversion and Financing Decisions: Evidence from COVID-19 Support Programs
Mikael Paaso* (Erasmus), Vesa Pursiainen (St. Gallen), Sami Torstila (Aalto)
Discussant: Kim Peijnenburg (EDHEC)
Learning from Errors in Entrepreneurship
Camille Hébert* (U. Toronto)
Discussant: Laurent Bach (ESSEC)
Session 2: Fintech (16.20 - 18.00 CET)
Measuring the Welfare Cost of Asymmetric Information in Consumer Credit Markets
Anthony A. DeFusco (Northwestern-Kellogg), Huan Tang (LSE), Constantine Yannelis* (Booth)
Discussant: Alberto Manconi (Bocconi)
FinTech Lending and Cashless Payments
Pulak Ghosh (Indian Inst. of Management), Boris Vallée* (HBS), Yao Zeng (Wharton)
Discussant: Ansgar Walther (Imperial)
Saturday, December 11
Session 3: Labor/Talent (9.00 - 10.40 CET)
How Innovating Firms Manage Knowledge Leakage: A Natural Experiment on the Threat of Worker Departure
Hyo Kang* (U. Southern California), Wyatt Lee (U. Toronto)
Discussant: Vicente Cunat (LSE)
Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China
Chong-en Bai (Tsinghua), Ruixue Jia* (LSE), Hongbin Li (Stanford), Xin Wang (CUHK)
Discussant: Daniel Metzger (Erasmus)
Session 4: Patents (11.00 - 12.40 CET)
Transportation Networks and the Rise of the Knowledge Economy in 19th Century France
Georgios Tsiachtsiras* (U. of Barcelona)
Discussant: Carlos Serrano (Pompeu Fabra)
The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Independent Inventors: An Experiment at the US Patent and Trademark Office
Charles deGrazia* (EMLV), Nicholas A. Pairolero (USPTO), Peter-Anthony Pappas (USPTO), Mike H.M. Teodorescu (Boston College), Andrew A. Toole (ZEW)
Discussant: Colleen Cunningham (LBS)
Session 5: Financing (14.00 - 16.30 CET)
Discrimination in the Venture Capital Industry: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials
Ye Zhang* (SSE)
Discussant: Paul Beaumont (U. Toronto)
The Real Effects of Banking the Poor: Evidence from Brazil
Julia Fonseca (U. IIlinois at Urbana-Champaign), Adrien Matray* (Princeton)
Discussant: Rebecca deSimone (LBS)
Credit Conditions when Lenders are Commonly Owned
Mattia Colombo (U. Mannheim), Laura Grigolon (U. Mannheim), Emanuele Tarantino* (LUISS)
Discussant: Evren Ors (HEC Paris)
*Presenting author
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