Entrepreneurship.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Entrepreneurship met in Cambridge on December 11, 2009. Directors Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School, and Antoinette Schoar, MIT's Sloan School, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Kanika Kapur and Susan Gates, RAND, "Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?"

* Meghana Ayyagari, George Washington University; Asli Demirguc-Kunt, The World Bank; and Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland, "Are Innovating Firms Victims or Perpetrators? Tax Evasion, Bribe Payments and the Role of External Finance in Developing Countries"

* Thomas Astebro, HEC, Paris; Jose Mata, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Luis Santos-Pinto, University of Lausanne, "Preference for Skew in Lotteries: Evidence from the Laboratory"

* Amitay Alter, Washington University...