Workshop on Entrepreneurial
Finance and Innovation
A bi-weekly, virtual workshop featuring research in entrepreneurial finance and innovation. The workshop is open to submissions at contact@workshop-efi.com.
The WEFI organizers are Michael Ewens, Yael Hochberg, Song Ma and David Robinson.
40 minute presentation (Zoom)
15 minute invited discussion
10 min moderated Q&A (collect questions during presentations)
Use this sign-up form join the mailing list for workshop announcements and the call for papers. We will send separate RSVPs for the presentations.
Seminar: October 4th, 2021
"Startup Experience, Venture Capital Experience, and First-time Venture Fund Performance" (Register)
Authors: David Brophy, Shane Miller, and Emmanuel Yimfor
Presenter: Emmanuel Yimfor (Univ. of Michigan)
Discussant: Sophie Calder-Wang (Wharton)
Seminar: October 18th, 2021
"Entrepreneurial Migration" (Register)
Authors: Kevin A. Bryan and Jorge Guzman
Presenter: Jorge Guzman (Columbia)
Discussant: Cameron LaPoint (Yale)
Seminar: November 1st, 2021
"Beefing IT up for your Investor? Open Sourcing and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub"(Register)
Authors: Annamaria Conti, Christian Peukert, and Maria Roche
Presenter: Maria P. Roche (HBS)
Discussant: TBD
Seminar: December 6th, 2021
"Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of ‘Bottom-Up’ Reforms to U.S. Defense Research" (Register)
Authors: Sabrina T. Howell, Jason Rathje, John Van Reenen and Jun Wong
Presenter: Sabrina T. Howell (NYU)
Discussant: Daniel P. Gross (Duke)
David Robinson (Duke)
Ramana Nanda (HBS)
Bo Bian (UBC)
"Did Western CEO Incentives Contribute to China's Technological Rise?"
Authors: Bo Bian and Jean-Marie Meier
Presenter: Bo Bian (Univ. of British Columbia)
Discussant: Moqi Groen-Xu (Queen Mary Univ. of London)
John M. Barrios (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Rugged Entrepreneurs: The Geographic and Cultural Contours of New Business Formation"
Presenter: John M. Barrios (Washington University in St. Louis)
Discussant: Samuel Bazzi (UC San Diego)
Wei Jiang (Columbia)
"Surviving the FinTech Disruption"
Camille Hebert (Toronto)
Jay Ritter (Univ. of Florida)
"SPACs"