Conference Discussions
2025 UBC Summer Finance Conference, The Green Value of BigTech Credit, by D. Su, P. Wang, X. Wang, and X. Yu
2025 SFS Cavalcade, Financing the Next VC-Backed Startup: The Role of Gender, by C. Hebert, H. Tookes, and E. Yimfor
2025 AFA, The Cost of Regulatory Compliance in the United States, by F. Trebbi, M. Zhang, and M. Simkovic
2024 WUSTL Olin Finance Conference, Entrepreneur Experience and Success: Causal Evidence from Immigration Wait Lines, by A. Gupta, F. Qian, and Y. Sun
2024 CICF, Digital Platforms and the Real Economy: Entrepreneurship, Development, and Industry Clustering, by L. W. Cong, B. Liu, X. Yang, and X. Zhang
2024 FIRS, The Silicon Divide: High-Technology IPOs and the Widening Socioeconomic Gap, by W. Zhao
2024 ECGI/Univ. of Delaware Corporate Governance Symposium, Regulatory Costs and Vertical Integration: Evidence from Supply Chain Disclosure Regulations, by E, Yu
2024 MFA, Alumni Networks in Venture Capital Financing, by J. Garfinkel, E. Mayer, I. Strebulaev, and E. Yimfor
2024 ITAM Finance Conference, Human Capital Reallocation and Agglomeration of Innovation: Evidence from Technological Breakthroughs, by J. Xue
2023 USC Macro Finance Conference, Labor Mobility, Human Capital Investment, and Technological Change, by S. Ma, W. Wang, and Y. Wu
2023 NFA, Venture Labor: A Nonfinancial Signal for Start-up Success, by S. Cao, J. He, Z. Lin, and X. Ren
2023 NFA, The Effect of Student Loans on Entrepreneurial Firm Risk-taking and Access to Venture Capital, by T. Chemmanur, K. Krishnan, H. Rajaiya, and P. Wang
2023 CICF, Technological Obsolescence, by S. Ma
2023 CICF, Entrepreneurial Teams: Prior Industry Experience and Early-Stage Growth, by F. D'Acunto, G. Tate, and L. Yang
2023 Mitsui Finance Symposium, Specialization and Performance in Private Equity: Evidence from the Hotel Industry, by C. Spaenjers and E. Steiner
2023 FIRS, Great Recession Babies: How Are Startups Shaped by Macro Conditions at Birth?, by D. Bias and A. Ljungqvist
2023 FIRS, Corporate Diversity Culture Spillover, by X. Cen, Y. Qiu, and T. Wang
2023 MFA, Entrepreneurship and the Platform Economy: Evidence from U.S. Tax Returns, by M. Denes, S. Lagaras, and M. Tsoutsoura
2023 MFA, Shared Culture and Technological Innovation: Evidence from Corporate R&D Teams, by T. Fitzgerald and X. Liu
2022 NFA, Learning from Errors in Entrepreneurship, by C. Hebert.
2022 Labor and Finance Group Conference, Capital Investment and Labor Demand, by M. Curtis, D. Garrett, E. Ohrn, K. Roberts, and J. Serrato.
2022 EFA, The Effect of Tax Incentives on Local Private Investments and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, by J. Xu.
2022 CICF, Board Knowledge Diversity and Radical Innovation, by G. Bernile, V. Bhagwat, A. Genin, and W. Ma
2022 CICF, Resurrecting Dead Capital: The Sharing Economy, Entrepreneurship, and Job Creation, by Y. Mao, X. Tian, J. Xu, and K. Ye
2022 SoCal PE Conference, The Value-Add of Venture Capital Due-diligence for Venture Performance, by J. González-Uribe, R. Klingler-Vidra, S. Wang, and X. Yin
2022 AFA, Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance, by M. Giorcelli and B. Li
2021 NFA, Mapping US-China Technology Decoupling, Innovation, and Firm Performance, by P. Han, W. Jiang, and D. Mei
2021 CICF, Thy Neighbor’s Vote: Peer Effects in Proxy Voting, by J. Huang
2021 MFA, Determinants of International Buyout Investments, by S. Aldatmaz, G. Brown, and A. Demirguc-Kunt
2021 MFA, Is There a Trade-off Between Protecting Investors and Promoting Entrepreneurial Activity? Evidence from Angel Financing, by J. Xu
2020 SFS Cavalcade, Patent Quality and Firm Value: Evidence from Patent Examiners Busyness, by T. Shu, X. Tian, and X. Zhan
2020 MFA, Family Comes First: Reproductive Health and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship, by J. Zandberg
2019 NBER Entrepreneurship, Identifying and Boosting “Gazelles”: Evidence from Business Accelerators, by J. González Uribe and S. Reyes
2019 Yale Junior Finance Conference, Local Taxes and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Evidence from 27 Million Job Postings, by M. Campello , J. Gao, and Q. Xu
2019 UBC Summer Finance Conference, The Role of High-Skilled Foreign Labor in Startup Performance: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments, by J. Chen, S. Hshieh , and F. Zhang
2019 Duke/UNC Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference, Shocks and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Electronic Payment Systems, by N. Crouzet, A. Gupta, and F. Mezzanotti
2019 NFA, More Cash Flows, More Options? The Effect of Cash Windfalls on Small Firms, by J. Cespedes, X. Huang, and C, Parra
2019 MFA, Contracts with Benefits: The Implementation of Impact Investing, by C. Geczy, J. Jeffers, D. Musto, and A. Tucker
2019 MFA, Geographic Concentration of Venture Capital Investors, Corporate Monitoring, and Firm Performance, by JK. Kang, Y. Li, and S. Oh
2018 WFA, Unconventional Monetary Policy and Bank Lending Relationships, by C. Cahn, A. Duquerroy, and W. Mullins
2018 FIRS, Angels, Entrepreneurship, and Employment Dynamics: Evidence from Investor Accreditation Rules, by L. Lindsey and L. Stein
2018 ECGI Conference on Differential Voting Rights, The LifeCycle of Dual Class Firm Valuations, by M. Cremers, B. Lauterbach, and A. Pajuste
2018 Darden-Cambridge Entrepreneurship Conference, Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents, by D. Autor, D. Dorn, G. Hanson, G. Pisano, and P. Shu
2018 CICF, Initial Coin Offering and Platform Building, by J. Li and W. Mann
2018 CICF, Payday before Mayday: CEO Compensation Contracting for Distressed Firms, by M.E. Carter, E. Hotchkiss, and M. Mohseni
2018 CICF, “Trading” Political Favors: Evidence from the Impact of the STOCK Act, by R. Huang and Y. Xuan
2018 FMA Asia-Pacific, Do Venture Capital Investors Learn from Public Markets?, by B. Liu and X. Tian
2017 SFS Cavalcade, The Usual Suspects: Experienced Backers and Early Stage Venture Success, by E. Li and S. Martin
2017 NFA, Angels or Sharks: The Role of Personal Characteristics in Angel Investment Decisions, by T. Boulton, T. D. Shohfi, and P. Zhu
2017 CICF, When is Good News Not Good News: Conflict of Interests Among Shareholders in the Choice of Innovation Policies, by P. Hsu, S. Huang, M. Massa, and H Zhang
2017 CICF, Mutual Fund Investments in Private Firms, S. Kwon, M. Lowry, and Y. Qian
2016 NFA, A Text-Based Analysis of Corporate Innovation, by G. Bellstam, S. Bhagat, and A. Cookson
2015 LBS Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, The Real Effect of External Financing Consequences of the 2012 Chinese IPO Moratorium, by Y. Sun
2015 IZA/Kauffman Entrepreneurship Workshop, Broadband Infrastructure and Entrepreneurship, by O. Falck, A. Mazat, B. Stockinger