November 19, 2009 |
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8:00 - 9:00 | Registration/Breakfast |
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9:00 - 9:10 | Opening Remarks: Justin Lin (Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, World Bank) |
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9:10 - 11:00 | Session 1: Promoting Business Formalization and Growth |
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| Chair: Asli Demirguc-Kunt (Senior Research Manager, Development Research Group, World Bank) |
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 | Management as a Technology: Evidence from India |
 | Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University), Benjamin Eifert (University of California, Berkeley) Aprajit Mahajan (Stanford University) David McKenzie (World Bank) John Roberts (Stanford University) |
 | Discussant: Ramana Nanda (Harvard Business School) |
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 | Youth Entrepreneurship in Bosnia |
 | Miriam Bruhn (World Bank), Bilal Zia (World Bank) |
 | Discussant: Shawn Cole (Harvard Business School) |
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 | Do Firms Want to Become Formal? |
 | Suresh de Mel (University of Peradeniya), David McKenzie (World Bank) and Christopher Woodruff (University of California, San Diego) |
 | Discussant: Zoltan Acs (George Mason University) |
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11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee Break |
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11:20 - 12:45 | Session 2: Entrepreneurial Finance |
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 | Chair: Shidan Derakhshani (Director, Global Capital Markets Development Department, World Bank and IFC) |
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| Success in Global Venture Capital Investing: Do Institutional and Cultural Differences Matter? |
| Â | Sonali Hazarika (Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, NY) Rajarishi Nahata (Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, NY ) Kishore Tandon (Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, NY) |
| Discussant: Alexander Ljungqvist (New York University) |
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| The Effect of Incentives and Information on Credit Screening |
| Shawn Cole (Harvard Business School) Martin Kanz (Harvard University), Leora Klapper (World Bank) |
| Discussant: Enrichetta Ravina (Columbia University) |
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12:45 - 2:00 | Lunch Break |
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2:00 - 4:00 | PANEL: Promoting High-Growth Entrepreneurship |
 | Chair: Robert Litan (Vice President for Research and Policy, Kauffman Foundation, and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution) |
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| - William Baumol (Professor of Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Stern School of Business, New York University)
          - Nicholas Beim (Partner, Matrix Partners, and Board Member, Endeavor)
         - Orna Berry (Venture Partner, Gemini Israel Funds, Ltd.)
     - Andrei Shleifer (Professor of Economics, Harvard University)
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4:00 - 4:15 | Coffee Break |
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4:15-5:30 | Session 3: Migration and Entrepreneurship |
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 | Chair: Ernesto May (Sector Director, PREM-FPD, South Asia Region, World Bank) |
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| Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom |
| Robert W. Fairlie (University of California, Santa Cruz), Harry Krashinsky (University of Toronto), Julie Zissimopoulos (RAND Corporation), and Krishna B. Kumar (RAND Corporation) |
| Discussant: Anna Paulson (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) |
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| From Rags to Riches: Does Culture Affect Entrepreneurial Activity? |
| Christian Busch (KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Zurich) and Andrea Lassmann (KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Zurich) |
| Discussant: Silvia Ardagna (Harvard University) |
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| November 20, 2009 |
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8:00-9:00 | Breakfast |
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9:00-9:10 | Opening Remarks: Robert Strom (Director for Policy and Research, Kauffman Foundation) |
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9:10 – 11:00 | Session 4: Gender and Entrepreneurship |
| Chair: Amanda Natalie Ellis (Lead Specialist on Gender and Development, Poverty Reduction & Economic Management Network, World Bank) |
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| Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya |
| Pascaline Dupas (University of California, Los Angeles) and Jonathan Robinson (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| Discussant: David McKenzie (World Bank) |
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| Constraints to Female Entrepreneurship: Ideas or Capital? |
| Xavier Gine (World Bank) and Ghazala Mansuri (World Bank) |
| Discussant: Monique Cohen (Microfinance Opportunities) |
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| The Economic Impact of Banking the Unbanked: Evidence from Mexico |
| Miriam Bruhn (World Bank) and Inessa Love (World Bank) |
| Discussant: Camilo Mondragon-Velez (World Bank) |
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11:00- 11:20 | Coffee Break |
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11:20- 12:45 | Session 5: Institutions and Entrepreneurship |
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 | Chair: Cecile Fruman (Manager, Strategy and Analysis, World Bank) |
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| Growth in Post-Soviet Russia: A Tale of Two Transitions |
| Daniel Berkowitz (University of Pittsburgh) and David DeJong (University of Pittsburgh) |
| Discussant: Inessa Love (World Bank) |
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| Who Has the Right Stuff? Human Capital, Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change in China |
| Charles Eesley (Stanford University) |
| Discussant: Larry Chavis (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |
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12:45-2:00 | Lunch Break |
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2:00-4:00 | Session 6: Firms Dynamics and Size |
 | Chair: William Maloney (Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank) |
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| Employee Spinoffs and other Entrants: Stylized Facts from Brazil |
| Oana Hirakawa (University of California, San Diego), Marc-Andreas Muendler (University of California San Diego, Princeton University, CESifo & NBER), and
James Rauch (University of California San Diego, & NBER) |
| Discussant: Daniel Lederman (World Bank) |
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| Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young |
| John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland), Ron Jarmin (Center for Economic Studies, Bureau of the Census, Government of the US), and Javier Miranda, (Center for Economic Studies, Bureau of the Census, Government of the US) |
| Discussant: Reena Aggarwal (Georgetown University) |
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| The Political Economy and Determinants of Firm Size in an Emerging Market
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| Leora Klapper (World Bank) and Christine Richmond (World Bank) |
| Discussant: Mary Hallward-Driemeier (World Bank) |
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