WEFI

SCHEDULE

April 13, 2026

Paper: Commercialization Margins and Uncertainty

Presenter: Elvira Sojli (UNSW)

Coauthors: Leo Liu (UTS) and Wing Wah Tham (UNSW)

Discussant: Alminas Žaldokas (NUS)

April 27, 2026

Paper: The Impact of VC Financing on Entrepreneurial Experimentation: Evidence from Clinical Trials

Presenter: Jennifer Kao (UCLA)

Coauthors: Abhishek Nagaraj (UC Berkeley)

Discussant: Jiajie Xu (Iowa)

May 11, 2026

Paper: Public Funding and Non-Frontier Entrepreneurship

Presenter: Francisco Queiró (Nova SBE)

Coauthors: Miguel A. Ferreira, Marta C. Lopes, and Hugo Reis

Discussant: Matthew Denes (CMU)