Conference Agenda

Session

Entrepreneurship and Labor Market Shocks

Time:

Friday, 13/Mar/2026:

8:00am - 9:45am

Session Chair: William Mann, Emory University

Location: Pacific 1

Presentations

Entrepreneur Experience and Success: Causal Evidence from Immigration Wait Lines

Abhinav Gupta¹, Franklin Qian¹, Yifan Sun²

¹University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; ²University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Natee Amornsiripanitch (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

Aiming Low: Necessity Entrepreneurs and the Choice to Incorporate

Philippe d'Astous¹, Frank-Olivier Garane², Barry Scholnick³

¹HEC Montreal; ²Université du Québec à Montréal; ³University of Alberta

Discussant: Leandro Sanz (University of Notre Dame)

The "Great Reshuffling" and Entrepreneurship

Matthew Denes¹, Spyridon Lagaras², Margarita Tsoutsoura³

¹Carnegie Mellon University; ²University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; ³Washington University in St. Louis

Discussant: Daniel Bias (Vanderbilt University)