The first Columbia Private Equity conference – generously supported by the Columbia Business School – was held in person on March 2nd and 3rd on the Columbia Business School campus.
The first day of the conference (March 2nd) was a Ph.D. workshop, and the second is a five-paper conference.
Location: Geffen Hall (Room 490) and Kravis Hall, Columbia Business School (Room 880)
Format
Ph.D. workshop: 25 minutes for presentation, 15 minutes for discussion, and 5 minutes for Q&A.
Main session: 25 minutes for presentation, 15 minutes for discussion, and 10 minutes for Q&A.
Ph.D. Workshop, Thursday, March 2nd
12pm – 1 pm: Introduction and Lunch
1:15 – 2:00 pm: “Human Capital Reallocation and Agglomeration of Innovation: Evidence from Technological Breakthroughs” (Jing Xue, Univ. Maryland)
Discussant: Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern)
2:00 – 2:45pm: “The Adoption of Artificial Intelligence by Venture Capitalists” (Maxime Bonelli, HEC)
Discussant: Lea Stern (Univ. Wash.)
2:45pm-3:15pm: Break
3:15 – 4pm: “From in-person to online: the new shape of the VC industry” (Mila Alekseeva, Silvia Fontana, Caroline Genc, and Hedieh Ranjbar)
Discussant: Xavier Giroud (Columbia)
4:00-4:45 pm: “Desperate Capital Breeds Productivity Loss: Evidence from Public Pension Investments in Private Equity” (Vrinda Mittal, Columbia)
Discussant: Jonathan Zandberg (Wharton)
5pm – 6pm: Reception (presenters+discussants)
6:30 pm – 8 pm: Dinner (presenters+discussants)
Conference, Friday, March 3rd
9:00 – 9:30 am: Light breakfast and coffee.
9:30 am-10:20 am: “Portfolio Management in Private Equity” (Greg Brown, Celine Fei, and David Robinson)
Discussant: Arpit Gupta (NYU Stern)
10:20 – 10:55 am: Coffee break
10:55 – 11:45 am: “Size, returns and value added: Do private equity firms allocate capital according to manager skill?” (Reiner Braun,
Nils Dorau, Tim Jenkinson, and Daniel Urban)
Discussant: Rustam Abuzov (Univ. VA, Darden)
11:45am – 1:00pm: Lunch
1:00 – 1:50 pm: “Who becomes a business angel?” (Laurent Bach, Ramin P. Baghai, Per Strömberg, and Katarina Warg)
Discussant: Katja Kisseleva-Scherenberger (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)
1:50- 2:15pm: Break
2:15-3:05pm: “Learning by Investing: Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Venture Capital” (Josh Lerner, Jinlin Li, and Tong Liu)
Discussant: Emanuele Colonnelli (Booth)
3:05 – 3:55pm: “The Shifting Finance of Electricity Generation” (Aleksandar Andonov and Joshua Rauh)
Discussant: Sophie Shive (Univ. of Notre Dame)
4pm – 5:30pm: Reception (presenters+discussants)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Dinner (presenters+discussants)
Attendees
| Name | Institution |
| Aleksandar Andonov Arpit Gupta Celine Yue Fei Daniel Urban David Robinson Emanuele Colonnelli Emmanuel Yimfor Filippo Mezzanotti Hedieh Rashidi Ranjbar Jeremias Huber Jerry Shi Jessica Hamlin Jing (Sophia) Xue Jonathan Zandberg Jorge Guzman Katarina Warg Katja Kisseleva Lea Stern Maxime Bonelli Michael Ewens Minmo Gahng Ramana Nanda Rus Abuzov Silvia Dalla Fontana Song Ma Sophie Shive Tim Jenkinson Tong Liu Vladimir Mukharlyamov Vrinda Mittal William Janeway Xavier Giroud Xuelin Li Yingxiang Li | University of Amsterdam NYU Stern UNC Erasmus School of Economics Duke University University of Chicago University of Michigan Northwestern University University of Michigan Columbia Business School Columbia University Pitchbook University of Maryland The Wharton School Columbia Business School Stockholm School of Economics Frankfurt School of Finance & Management University of Washington HEC Columbia Business School University of Florida Imperial College University of Virginia, Darden University of Lugano Yale University of Notre Dame Oxford University MIT Georgetown University Columbia Business School University of Cambridge Columbia Business School University of South Carolina University of British Columbia |