HEC Paris Entrepreneurship Workshop

Date: December 9-10, 2022

Location: HEC Paris, France

Organizers: Johan Hombert, Simon Mayer

Program
Friday, December 9
Session 1: Venture Capital and Angels (13.30 - 16.00)
Who Becomes a Business Angel?
Laurent Bach (ESSEC), Ramin Baghai (Stockholm School of Economics), Per Strömberg (Stockholm School of Economics), Katarina Warg* (Stockholm School of Economics)
Discussant: Ludovic Phalippou (Oxford-Saïd)
The Value-Add of Venture Capital Due-diligence: Information Frictions, Startup Growth and Failed Fundraising Campaigns
Juanita González-Uribe* (LSE), Robyn Klingler-Vidra (King's College London), Su Wang (ShanghaiTech University), Xiang Yin (Tsinghua University)
Discussant: Ye Zhang (Stockholm School of Economics)
Private Equity and Venture Capital Fund Performance: Evidence from a Large Sample of Israeli Limited Partners
Alon Brav (Duke University), Guy Lakan* (The Hebrew University), Yishay Yafeh (The Hebrew University)
Discussant: Johan Cassel (Vanderbilt University)
Session 2: Private Equity (16.20 - 18.00)
Private Equity Debt Funds: Who Wins, Who Loses?
Axel Buchner (University of Passau), Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes* (SKEMA Business School), Armin Schwienbacher (SKEMA Business School)
Discussant: Young Soo Jang (Chicago Booth)
Owner Incentives and Performance in Healthcare: Private Equity Investment in Nursing Homes
Atul Gupta (Wharton), Sabrina Howell (NYU Stern), Abhinav Gupta (UNC Chapel Hill), Constantine Yannelis* (Chicago Booth)
Discussant: Stefan Obernberger (Erasmus University)
Saturday, December 11
Session 3: Innovation (9.00 - 10.40)
More Competition, Better Products: Evidence from a Novel Classification of Patents
Colin Davison* (University of Notre Dame)
Discussant: Antonin Bergeaud (HEC Paris)
Research and/or Development? Financial Frictions and Innovation Investment
Filippo Mezzanotti* (Kellogg School of Management), Timothy Simcoe (Boston University)
Discussant: Ramin Baghai (Stockholm School of Economics)
Session 4: Diversity and Trust (11.00 - 12.40)
Trust and Innovation within the Firm: Evidence from Matched CEO-Firm Data
Kieu-Trang Nguyen* (Kellogg School of Management)
Discussant: Anastasia Girshina (Stockholm School of Economics
Racial Diversity in Private Capital Fundraising
Johan Cassel (Vanderbilt University), Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School), Emmanuel Yimfor* (Ross School of Business)
Discussant: Carlos Serrano (HEC Paris)
Session 5: Fintech (14.00 - 15.40)
Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry: Early Evidence from Open Banking
Tania Babina (Columbia Business School), Greg Buchak* (Stanford University), Will Gornall, (University of British Columbia)
Discussant: Ansgar Walther (Imperial College)
The Adoption of Artificial Intelligence by Venture Capitalists
Maxime Bonelli* (HEC Paris)
Discussant: Roxana Mihet (HEC Lausanne)
*Presenting author
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