Bernard Tawiah, Victoria University of Wellington

Michael O’Connor Keefe, Victoria University of Wellington

Shima Amini, Leeds University Business School

Abdul Mohamed, Leeds University Business School

Armin Schwienbacher, SKEMA Business School-Université Côté d’Azur

Nicholas Wilson, Leeds University Business School

Kweku Arthur-Annobil, The Open University Business School

Idan Hodor, Monash University

Guillaume Andrieu, Montpellier Business School

Maurizio la Rocca, University of Calabria

Tiziana La Rocca, University of Messina

Raffaele Stagliano, University of Messina

Marius Berger, TUM School of Management

Johannes Bersch, Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Andrea Odille Bosio, Università Carlo Cattaneo

Anna Gervasoni, Università Carlo Cattaneo

Francesco Bollazi, Università Carlo Cattaneo

Jovana Cadenovic, University of Antwerp

Marc Deloof, University of Antwerp and Antwerp Management School

Ine Paeleman, University of Antwerp

Orçun Kaya, ZHAW School of Management and Law

Ibrahim Bostan, Zayed University

G.Mujtaba Mian, Zayed University

Christian Fisch, University of Trier

Michele Meoli, University of Bergamo

Joern Block, University of Trier

Silvio Vismara, University of Bergamo

Messaoud Chibane, NEOMA Business School

Nathalie Janson, NEOMA Business School

Sasan Mansouri, Goethe-University

Paul P. Momtaz, Goethe-University

Francesco Collevecchio, Università Politechnica delle Marche

Francesco Cappa, LUISS Guido Carli University

Raffaele Oriani, LUISS Guido Carli University

Enzo Peruffo, LUISS Guido Carli University

Rafael P. Ribas, University of Amsterdam

Philipp Ehrl, Catholic University of Brasilia

Max Berre, Audencia Business School

Benjamin Le Pendeven, Audencia Business School

Marc Cowling, University of Derby

Alex Sclip, University of Udine

Dhruv Aggarwal, Yale University

Offer Eldar, Duke University

Yael V. Hochberg, Rice University & NBER

Lubomir P. Litov, University of Oklahoma

Tina Oreski,Swiss Finance Institute

Jiajie Xu,Boston College

Tetiana Davydiuk, Carnegie Mellon University

Deeksha Gupta, Carnegie Mellon University

Samuel Rosen, Fox School of Business

Pulak Ghosh, Indian Institute of Management

Boris Vallee, Harvard Business School

Yao Zeng, Wharton

Edmond Baranes, University of Montpellier

Ulrich Hege, Toulouse School of Economics

Jin-Hyuk Kim, University of Colorado

Paul Belmont,Desautels Faculty of Management

Huan Tang, London School of Economics

Eric Vansteenberghe, Paris School of Economics

Vladimir Vladimirov, University of Amsterdam

Spyros Terovitis, University of Amsterdam

Felix Zhiyu Feng, Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington

Sharjil M. Haque, University of North Carolina

Aleksandrina Ralcheva, Rotterdam School of Management

Qianqian Yu, Lehigh University

Oghenovo A. Obrimah, FISK University

Michael Ewens, California Institute of Technology and NBER

Nadya Malenko, University of Michigan, CEPR, and ECGI

Maxime Bonelli, HEC Paris

Jack Liebersohn, UC Irvine

Victor Lyonnet, Ohio State University

Fabrizio Core, Erasmus School of Economics

Evan Dudley, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University

Keynote Address

17:00 CEST- 18:00 CEST

Public entrepreneurial finance in an era of crisis?

Josh Lerner                                                                                                

Jacob H.Schiff Professor of Investment Banking

Harvard Business School

He graduated from Yale College with a special divisional major. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. He then earned a Ph.D. from Harvard’s Economics Department. He co-directs the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program and serves as co-editor of their publication.

Josh’s research, which has received extensive awards and appeared in leading journals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies and others, focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations.

Josh teaches Venture Capital and Private Equity in the MBA Programs, Theoritical and Empirical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship in the Doctoral Programs, Private Equity and Venture Capital and Owner/President Management Program in the Executive Education Program.

Hai Long, Anhui International Studies University

Qian Gao, University of Science and Technology of China

Nico Lehnertz, Heinrich-Heine University

Carolin Plagmann, Heinrich-Heine University

Eva Lutz, Heinrich-Heine University

Walid Saffar, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Longfei Shang, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Claire Champenois, Audencia Business School

Michel Devigne, Institut Mines-Telecom Atlantique

Benjamin Le Pendeven, Audencia Business School

François-Régis Puyou, University of St Andrews

Elodie Manthé, University Savoie-Mont-Blanc

Fabrice Hervé, University of Bourgogne

Alice Rossi, University of Bergamo,

Tom Vanacker, Ghent University

Silvio Vismara, University of Bergamo

Jörg Prokop, University of Oldenburg,

Dandan Wang, University of Oldenburg

Anish Tiwari, DCU Business School

Teresa Hogan, DCU Business School

Damien Dupré, DCU Business School

Carlos Krause, University of Trier

Jörn Block, University of Trier

Alexandra Moritz, University of Trier

Nataliya Gerasimova, Norwegian School of Economics

Maximilian Rohrer, Norwegian School of Economics

Vincenzo Butticè, Politecnico di Milano

Annalisa Croce, Politecnico di Milano

Elisa Ughetto, Poltecnico di Torino

Theresa Veer, University of Tübingen

Katja Bringmann, University of Ghent

Michel Dietsch, University of Strasbourg

Olivier Gonzalez, Banque de France

Joël Petey, University of Strasbourg

Job J. Andreoli, Nyenrode Business University

René P. Orij, Nyenrode Business University

Sheila O Donohoe, Waterford Institute of Technology

Denis Walsh, Waterford Institute of Technology

Wei Wang, Cleveland State University

Chris Yung, University of Virginia

Incheol Kim, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Timothy E.Trombley, Illinois State University

Ludovic Vigneron, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France

Douglas Cumming, Florida Atlantic University

Andrea Martinez Salgueiro, University of Santiago de Compostela

Ahmed Sewaid,  Insper Institute of Education and Research

Simone Fantaccini, Politecnico di Milano

Laura Grassi, Politecnico di Milano

Emmanuel Yimfor, University of Michigan

Wei Wang, Cleveland State University

Chris Yung, University of Virginia

Santanu Kundu, University of Mannheim

Clemens Mueller, University of Mannheim

Massimo G. Colombo, Politecnico di Milano

Christian Fisch, Trier University

Paul P. Momtaz, Goethe University

Silvio Vismara, University of Bergamo

Tatja Karkkainen, University of Glasgow

Laura Toschi, University of Bologna

Elisa Ughetto, Politecnico di Torino

Andrea Fronzetti Colladon, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Benjamin Le Pendeven, Audencia Business School

Catherine Morel, Audencia Business School

Gaël Leboeuf, Lyon 2 University

Onur Sefiloglu, Cass Business School City, University of London

Niklas Kurth, RWTH Aachen University

Andrea Greven, RWTH Aachen University

Malte Brettel, RWTH Aachen University

Overview & Research Ideas Session 16:00 CEST- 18:00 CEST

16:00 CEST- 17:00 CEST

 A Blockchain Analysis of the Bitcoin Market (joint with Igor Makarov)

Antoinette Schoar                                                                                                  

Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship

MIT Sloan School of Management

She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Cologne, Germany. She is the co-chair of the NBER Corporate Finance group.

Antoinette’s research interests span from entrepreneurship and financing of small businesses in emerging markets to household finance and intermediation in retail financial markets. She received several awards, including the Brattle Prize for best paper in the Journal of finance and the Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship in 2009. She has published numerous papers in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economic, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and others.

Her work has been featured in the Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

17:00 CEST- 17:15 CEST: BREAK

17:15 CEST- 18:00 CEST

The Conundrum of Small Business Subsidies: Should Government ‘Pick Winners’ or Fund ‘Winner-Pickers’?

Sabrina Howell                                                                                                      

Assistant Professor of Finance

New York University Stern School of Business

She received her B.A. from Yale University in 2008 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2015. In between, she worked as an energy consultant for Charles River Associates in Houston, and on energy security policy for Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) in Washington DC. She is the recipient of the ASR Top Finance Graduate Award at Copenhagen Business School, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowshop, the Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship, and the AQR asset Management Institute Young Researcher Award.

Sabrina is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focuses on entrepreneurial finance, innovation, energy fintech, and China. A theme throughout her work is a focus on analysis that is relevant for policymakers and practitioners. She has published numerous papers in the American Economic Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science and others.

Sabrina teaches Applications in Entrepreneurial Finance: Fintech.