The 2020 conference is supported by the Linde Institute at Caltech.
Hotel
Courtyard in Pasadena, CA
180 North Fair Oaks Avenue
Pasadena, California 91103
Friday March 6th (Caltech Athenaeum [map])
Parking: the best lot is here ($6/day) and is a short walk to the conference (directions).
The conference has limited space, particularly for meals, so RSVP required. Please contact Mike at mewens@caltech.edu for information.
Presentation format: 20 minutes for presentation, 15 minutes for discussant and 15 minutes for group discussion.
8:15am: Meet in Courtyard lobby if you want to take vans to Caltech.
8:30am – 9:15am: Light breakfast and coffee.
Paper 1 9:15am-10:05am: Optimal Allocation to Private Equity (Nicola Giommetti and Morten Sørensen)
Discussant: Mark Westerfield (University of Washington)
10:05 – 10:40am: Coffee break
Paper 2 10:40 – 11:30am: Credit Market Equivalents and the Valuation of Private Firms (Niklas Huther, Lukas Schmid and Roberto Steri)
Discussant: Arpit Gupta (NYU)
11:45am – 1:15pm: Lunch
Paper 3 1:15 – 2:05pm: The Returns to Early-Stage Investment (Katja Kisseleva, Aksel Mjøs and David T. Robinson)
Discussant: Will Gornall (UBC)
2:05- 2:30pm Break
Paper 4 2:30-3:20pm: Financing Entrepreneurship: Tax Incentives for Early-Stage Investors (Matthew Denes, Xinxin Wang, and Ting Xu)
Discussant: Jessica Jeffers (Univ. of Chicago, Booth)
Paper 5 3:20 – 4:10pm: Private Company Valuations by Mutual Funds (Vikas Agarwal, Brad Barber, Si Cheng, Allaudeen Hameed and Ayako Yasuda)
Discussant: Sergey Chernenko (Purdue)
4:30-6:00: Reception and drinks (Athenaeum basement)
6:30pm – 9pm: Dinner (invitation only)
9pm: walk back to hotel
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