Wednesday, March 30, 2011 |
8:30 AM | Breakfast |
9:00 AM | Opening Remarks |
| | Janamitra Devan, Vice President and Head of Financial & Private Sector Development Network (World Bank) |
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9:15 AM | SESSION 1: FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR ENTREPRENEURS I |
| | Chair: Janamitra Devan, Vice President and Head of Financial & Private Sector Development Network (World Bank) |
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| | "Business and Financial Literacy for Young Entrepreneurs – Evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina"
Authors: Miriam Bruhn (World Bank) and Bilal Zia (World Bank) [Presentation]
Discussant: Margaret Miller (World Bank) [Presentation] |
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| | "Money or Ideas? A Field Experiment on Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Rural Pakistan"
Authors: Xavier Gine (World Bank) and Ghazala Mansuri (World Bank) [Presentation]
Discussant: Elena Bardasi (World Bank) (Presentation) |
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| | "Keeping it Simple – Financial Literacy and Rules of Thumb"
Authors: Alejandro Drexler (University of Texas, Austin), Greg Fischer (London School of Economics) and Antoinette Schoar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) [Presentation]
Discussant: Jonathan Robinson (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
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10:45 AM | Coffee break |
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11:00 AM | SESSION 2: IMPROVING THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT |
| | Chair: Simon Bell, Sector Manager of Finance & Private Sector Development, Middle East & North Africa Region (World Bank) |
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| | "The Impact of Business Environment Reforms on New Firm Registration"
Authors: Leora Klapper (World Bank) and Inessa Love (World Bank) [Presentation]
Discussant: Mary Hallward-Driemeier (World Bank) [Presentation] |
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| | "What is the Cost of Formality? Experimentally Estimating the Demand for Formalization"
Authors: Suresh de Mel (University of Peradeniya), David McKenzie (World Bank) and Christopher Woodruff (University of Warwick) [Presentation]
Discussant: Leora Klapper (World Bank) [Presentation] |
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| | "Do Entry Regulations Deter Entrepreneurship and Job Creation? Evidence from Recent Reforms in Portugal"
Authors: Lee Branstetter (Carnegie Mellon University), Francisco Lima (Technical University of Lisbon) Lowell Taylor (Carnegie Mellon University) and Ana Venancio (Carnegie Mellon University) [Presentation]
Discussant: Carmen Pages (Inter-American Development Bank) [Presentation] |
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12:30 PM | Lunch break |
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1:45 PM | EXPERT DISCUSSION SESSION |
| | Moderated by: Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Chief Economist, Financial & Private Sector Development Network and Senior Research Manager, Finance & Private Sector, Development Research Group (World Bank) |
| | Panelists: Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Antoinette Schoar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Monika Weber-Fahr (International Finance Corporation), Marilou Uy (World Bank) |
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3:00 PM | SESSION 3: FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR ENTREPRENEURS II |
| | Chair: Tilman Ehrbeck, Director, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (World Bank) |
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| | "Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-up and Growth in Sri Lanka"
Authors: Suresh de Mel (University of Peradeniya), David McKenzie (World Bank), Christopher Woodruff (University of Warwick) [Presentation]
Discussant: Rita Almeida (World Bank) [Presentation] |
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| | "Business Literacy and Development: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Rural Mexico"
Authors: Gabriela Calderon (Stanford University), Jesse Cunha (Naval Postgraduate School) , Giacomo De Giorgi (Stanford University) [Presentation]
Disscussant: Silvia Prina (Case Western Reserve University) [Presentation] |
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| | "Publicly Funded Business Advisory Services and Entrepreneurial Outcomes"
Authors: Douglas Cumming (York University), Eileen Fischer(York University) [Presentation]
Discussant: Louise Fox (World Bank) |
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4:30 PM | Coffee break |
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4:45 PM | SESSION 4: FIRM ORGANIZATION AND DYNAMICS |
| | Chair: Justin Lin, Senior Vice President & Chief Economist, Development Economics (World Bank) |
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| | "The Life Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico"
Authors: Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago), Pete Klenow (Stanford University) [Presentation]
Discussant: Aart Kraay (World Bank) [Presentation] |
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| | "Bribes for Sales: Evidence from the Second Set of Books"
Authors: Shawn Cole (Harvard University), Anh Tran (Indiana University)
Discussant: Siddarth Sharma (World Bank) [Presentation] |
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| | "Fighting Procrastination in the Workplace: An Experiment"
Authors: Ximena Cadena (Harvard University), Alexandra Cristea (Ideas42), Heber M. Delgado-Medrano (Innovations for Poverty Action), Antoinette Schoar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) [Presentation]
Discussant: Santosh Anagol (University of Pennsylvania) [Presentation] |
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