2020 PCOB Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Finance
Venue: Zoom
Time: Friday, August 28th, 12:30 pm CDT – 5:30 pm CDT
Presentation format: 30 minutes presentation; 15 minutes discussion; 15 minutes questions and comments from the audience.
Organizers: Lubo Litov & Jared Stanfield
12:30 pm – 1:30pm CDT
"Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation."
Sabrina T. Howell (NYU), Josh Lerner (HBS), Ramana Nanda (HBS), Richard R. Townsend (UCSD)
Discussant: Will Gornall (UBC)
1:30 pm – 2:30pm CDT
"Barbarians at the Store? Private Equity, Products, and Consumers."
Cesare Fracassi (UT-Austin), Alessandro Previtero (IU), Albert Sheen (Oregon)
Discussant: Davidson Heath (University of Utah)
2:30 pm – 3:30pm CDT
"Merger Waves and Innovation Cycles: Evidence from Patent Expirations."
Matthew Denes (Carnegie Mellon), Ran Duchin (Boston College), Jarrad Harford (UW)
Link to paper
Discussant: Joan Farre-Mensa (UIC)
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm CDT
“Young Firms, Old Capital.”
Song Ma (Yale), Justin Murfin (Cornell), Ryan Pratt (BYU)
Discussant: Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern University)
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm CDT
“Board Dynamics over the Startup Lifecycle.”
Michael Ewens (Caltech), Nadya Malenko (Michigan)
Discussant: Ofer Eldar (Duke University)
