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, Camille Hebert, Song Ma and Melanie Wallskog. Our two advisors are Yael Hochberg 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.
Laurent Frésard (USI Lugano)
"Knowledge Cycles and Corporate Investment"
Joan Farre-Mensa (UI Chicago)
"Do Startup Patent Acquisitions Affect Inventor Productivity?"
Amir Sariri (Purdue)
"Does Mentorship Drive Startup Performance?"
Sophie Calder-Wang (Wharton)
"Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams"
Simone Lenzu (NYU Stern)
"Propagation and Amplification of Local Productivity Spillovers"
Sabrina T. Howell (NYU Stern)
Maria P. Roche (HBS)
Jorge Guzman (Columbia)
Emmanuel Yimfor (U Mich)
"Startup Experience, Venture Capital Experience, and First-time Venture Fund Performance"
John M. Barrios (WashU St. Louis)
"Rugged Entrepreneurs: The Geographic and Cultural Contours of New Business Formation"
Wei Jiang (Columbia)
"Surviving the FinTech Disruption"
Camille Hebert (Toronto)
Jay Ritter (Univ. of Florida)
"SPACs"