PROGRAM

Thursday, July 29, 2021

8:30 am - 9:30 am (EST), 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm (IST): The Ties that Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory (Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon and Swati Sharma)

9.45 am - 10.45 am (EST), 7:15 pm - 8:15 pm (IST): Keynote by Raymond Fisman

11.00 am - 12.00 pm (EST), 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm (IST): Mixer

12.15 pm - 1.15 pm (EST), 9:45 pm - 10:45 pm (IST): The Community Origins of Private Enterprise in China (Ruochen Dai , Dilip Mookherjee , Kaivan Munshi and Xiaobo Zhang)

Friday, July 30, 2021

8.30 am - 9.30 am (EST), 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm (IST): Fund What you Trust? Social Capital in Crowdfunding (Tse-Chun Lin and Vesa Pursiainen)

9.45 am - 10.45 am (EST), 7:15 pm - 8:15 pm (IST): Keynote on "Deconstructing Bias in Social Preferences" by Rachel Kranton

11.00 am - 12.00 pm (EST), 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm (IST): Social Proximity to Capital: Implications for Investors and Firms (Theresa Kuchler, Yan Li, Lin Peng, Johannes Stroebel and Dexin Zhou)

12.15 pm - 1.15 pm (EST), 9:45 pm - 10:45 pm (IST): Elections, Connections, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from India (Manaswini Bhalla, Ishani Chatterjee, Manisha Goel and Gaurav Khanna)

Saturday, July 31, 2021

7:30 am - 8:30 am (EST), 5:00 pm- 6:00 pm (IST): Shame Shared is Shame Halved: The Peer Effect on Consumer Credit Default Choice (Emma Li, Li Liao, Zhenwei Wang and Xincheng Wang)

8.45 am - 9.45 am (EST), 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm (IST): Layoffs and Productivity at a Bangladeshi Sweater Factory (Robert Akerlof , Anik Ashraf, Rocco Macchiavello and Atonu Rabbani)

9.45 am - 10.45 am (EST), 7:15 pm - 8:15 pm (IST): Mixer

11.00 am -12.00 pm (EST), 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm (IST): The Role of Social Networks in Bank Lending (Oliver Rehbein and Simon Rother)