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ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM ON CROWDFUNDING – Fung Institute
October 17, 2013 @ 12:00 pm - October 18, 2013 @ 2:00 pm EST

University of California at Berkeley
Blum Hall, plaza level
Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 12:00 PM -Friday, October 18, 2013 at 2:00 PM (PDT)
AGENDA:
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17TH
12:00PM-1:00PM REGISTRATION & WELCOME LUNCHEON
1:00-2:15 INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CROWDFUNDING
➢ Dr. Tarik Yousef, CEO, Silatech
➢ Dr. Shehab Marzban, Shekra.com
➢ Dr. David Bholat, Bank of England
➢ Julia Groves, Chair, UK CrowdFunding Network
➢ Kristof De Buysere, European Crowdfunding Network
➢ Jouko Ahvenainen, Founder of Grow VC Group
➢ Tomás de Lara, Co-founder at Engage, Netweaver at Comum.cc
2:15PM-2:30PM BREAK
2:30PM-3:30PM RESEARCH SESSION: WHO GETS CROWDFUNDED?
➢ Ethan Mollick, Wharton School of Business “Swept Away by the Crowd? CrowdFunding, Venture Capital, and the Selection of Entrepreneurs”
➢ Gerrit K.C. Ahlers, A.T. Kearney GmbH, with Christina Guenther, Douglas Cumming, and Denis Schweizer “Signaling in Equity CrowdFunding”
➢ Alicia Robb, Kauffman Foundation, with Dan Marom, and Orly Sade “Gender Dynamics in CrowdFunding: Evidence on Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Deals from Kickstarter”
➢ Peter Younkin, McGill University, with Keyvan Kashkooli “A Crowd or a Community”
Discussant: Olav Sorenson, Yale School of Management
3:30PM-3:45PM BREAK
3:45PM-4:30PM WORLD BANK PAPER PUBLICATION:
➢ Jason Best and Sherwood Neiss, Crowdfund Capital Advisors and Fung Institute, UC Berkeley, with Richard Swart, Anthony Lambkin “Scaling Innovation: Crowdfunding’s Potential for the Developing World”
4:30PM-5:00PM THE REGULATION AND POLICY OF CROWDFUNDING
➢ Hye Hwal Seong, Inha University, Korea – The Korean Resolution of Crowdfunding Regulatory Challenges
➢ Doug Ellenoff, Ellenoff Grossman and Schole, LLP
Discussant: Richard Swart – Research Director, Program for Innovation in Entrepreneurial Finance, Fung Institute
5:00PM-5:30PM DEAN SHANKAR SASTRY:
➢ Award Ceremony for Congressman Patrick McHenry, 10th District of North Carolina
5:30PM-6:30PM RECEPTION
6:30PM-8:00PM DINNER
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18TH
8:00AM-8:30AM BREAKFAST
8:30AM-9:30AM RESEARCH SESSION: DYNAMICS OF THE CROWDFUNDING PROCESS
➢ Thomas Hildebrand, European School of Management and Technology, with Manju Puri and Jörg Rocholl “Adverse Incentives in CrowdFunding”
➢ Venkat Kuppuswamy, University of North Carolina, with Barry L. Bayus “CrowdFunding Creative Ideas: The Dynamics of Project Backers in Kickstarter”
➢ Anindya Ghose, NYU Stern School of Business, with Gordon Burtch and Sunil Wattal “Private Displays of Affection: An Empirical Examination of Online CrowdFunding Information Hiding Behavior”
Discussant: Gustavo Manso, Haas School of Business
9:30AM-10:30AM ACADEMIC PANEL
➢ Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University
➢ Manju Puri, Duke University
➢ Toby E. Stuart, Haas School of Business
➢ Hal Varian, Google
10:30AM-11:00AM BREAK
11:00AM-11:45AM RESEARCH SESSION: THE GEOGRAPHY OF CROWDFUNDING
➢ Ajay Agrawal, Rotman School of Management, with Christian Catalinia, Avi Goldfarb “The Geography of CrowdFunding.”
➢ Mingfeng Lin, University of Arizona, with Siva Viswanathan “Home Bias in Online Investments: An Empirical Study of an Online Crowd Funding Market”
Co-Discussants: Lee Fleming, UC Berkeley & Bryan Zhang, Cambridge
11:45AM-1:00PM LUNCH
1:00PM-2:00PM CROWDFUNDING DATA SCHEMA AND DATABASE DISCUSSION
➢ Richard Swart and Lee Fleming, UC Berkeley
3:00PM ADJOURN