WEFI
The 7th WEFI student-led workshop will take place virtually (Zoom) on November 10th, 2025. The workshop includes a best paper award of $500.
Program
12:30 pm – Welcoming Remarks
12:35 pm – “Entrepreneurship on a Safety Net: Evidence from the World’s Largest Cash Transfer Program”
Authors: Guilherme Junqueira (University of Florida) and Murillo Campello (University of Florida), and Spyridon Lagaras (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Discussant: Adrien Matray (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
1:10 pm – “When Roll-up Breaks: Serial Private Equity Acquisitions in the Hospital Industry”
Author: Sungil Kim (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University)
Discussant: Yongseok Kim (Tulane University)
1:45 pm – Break
1:55 pm – “Science, Startups, and the Problem of Value Capture: Thin Acquisition Markets, Weak Outside Options”
Author: Roger Masclans (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University)
Discussant: Daisy Wang (Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California)
2:30 pm – “Uncertainty as Opportunity: Political Polarization and Investments in High-Growth Startups”
Author: Adel Khusnulgatin (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Discussant: Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard Business School)
Format
20-minute presentation, 10-minute discussion, and 5-minute Q&A
Registration: Zoom registration required.
Student co-organizers: Alice Eliet-Doillet (EPFL), Yangyang Cheng (Bocconi University), Melissa Crumling (Drexel University), Himal Gautam (BI Norwegian Business School), Blake Jackson (University of Florida), Andy Li (University of Amsterdam), Renyuan Luo (Purdue University), Elif Nisa Guler (Indiana University, Bloomington) Roham Rezaei (UNSW), and Elizaveta Smorodenkova (LSE).
Faculty co-organizers: Michael Ewens, Camille Hebert, Song Ma, and Melanie Wallskog