Entrepreneurship Group meets.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Entrepreneurship met in Cambridge on December 7, 2012. Working Group Directors Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School and Antoinette Schoar of MIT chose these papers for discussion:

* Annamaria Conti and Jerry Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Marie Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER, "Are Patents Endogenous or Exogenous to Startup Financing?"

* Jing Chen, Copenhagen Business School, and Peter Thompson, Emory University, "New Firm Performance and the Replacement of Founder-CEOs"

* Johan Hombert and Adrien Matray, HEC-Paris, "The Real Effects of Hurting Lending Relationships: Evidence From Banking Deregulation and Innovation"

* Michael Roach, Duke University, and Henry Sauermann, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Founder or Joiner? The Role of...