Entrepreneurship.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Entrepreneurship met on December 8 in Cambridge. Josh Lerner of Harvard University and Entrepreneurship Working Group Director Antoinette Schoar of MIT organized the meeting, which was sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER; Salome Baslandze, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance; and Francesca Lotti, Bank of Italy, "Connecting to Power: Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics"

* Meghana Ayyagari, George Washington University, and Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland, "Human Capital, Competition, and Entrepreneurial Success in Manufacturing"

* Michael Ewens, California Institute of Technology, and Richard Townsend, University of California, San Diego, "Are Early Stage Investors Biased Against Women?"

* Geraldo Cerqueiro, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa; Maria Fabiana Penas, Universidad Torcuato Di Telia; and Robert...