Fall 2023 Program

12:00pm – “Strategic Investment in Competitors: Theory and Evidence from Technology Startups”
Author: Mario Leccese (University of Maryland)
Discussant: Merih Sevilir (European School of Management and Technology)

12:35pm – “How Can Monitoring Benefit Investors? Evidence from 85 Billion Cell Phone Signals”
Author: Jack Xiaoyong Fu (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Hyeik Kim (University of Alberta)

1:10pm – 15 min break

1:25pm – “The Effect of Returnee Inventors on Home Country Innovation”
Author: Sherry Xue (LSE)
Discussant: Caroline Fry (University of Hawai’i)

2:00pm – “Public R&D and Growth”
Authors: Arnaud Dyèvre (LSE)
Discussant: Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern)

Organizers

Student co-organizers: Liudmila Alekseeva (IESE Business School), Tarikua Erda (Columbia University), Silvia Dalla Fontana (USI Lugano and SFI), Minmo Gahng (University of Florida), Caroline Genc (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL), Xiameng Hua (UCSD), Seula Kim (University of Maryland), Ellen Xiyue Li (UBC Sauder), Yingxiang Li (UBC Sauder), Hedieh Rashidi Ranjbar (Michigan Ross), Roham Rezaei (UNSW), and Sophia Jing Xue (University of Maryland).

Faculty co-organizers: Michael Ewens, Camille Hebert, Song Ma, and Melanie Wallskog