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Kauffman Foundation-Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland--- Proposals are sought for conference papers to be featured in a special issue of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. The abstracts for this upcoming conference are due on May 15th. (Full call is below)
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The Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) is a panel study of 4,928 businesses founded in 2004 and tracked over their early years of operation. The survey focuses on the nature of new business formation activity; characteristics of the strategy, offerings, and employment patterns of new businesses; the nature of the financial and organizational arrangements of these businesses; and the characteristics of their founders. Currently, data from the baseline survey, first, and second follow-up surveys are available for analysis. The third follow-up data will be released in spring 2009.
Information about all of these can be found on Kauffman's website: www.kauffman.org/kfs
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Kauffman Foundation-Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Conference on Entrepreneurial Finance
Although most scholars recognize the importance of understanding how new companies are financed, they have made relatively little progress in investigating this process empirically, largely because of the lack of available data. However, in recent years, some scholars have begun to examine entrepreneurial finance questions using large, representative databases, and new datasets are now available that permit the examination of these questions in ways not possible previously. To encourage the investigation of these databases, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland are co-sponsoring a conference on entrepreneurial finance, to take place in Cleveland, Ohio at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on March 12-13, 2009. A pre-conference will be held at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, MO., on August 21-22, 2008. A subset of the papers presented at the conference will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.
The purpose of this conference is to bring together scholars who are looking at issues in entrepreneurial finance by using data that are representative of a known population. In particular the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation would encourage researchers to examine the following databases, many of which it supports, including:
Abstract proposals are not limited to these data sets. Some of the possible research questions of interest for the conference are:
- What are the primary sources of financing for new businesses?
- When do start-ups use debt and when do they use equity financing?
- What characteristics of new firms are associated with certain types of financing?
- Are certain types of new firm founders more likely than others to obtain financing?
- What are the similarities and differences among different sources of informal financing (friends, family, and business angels)?
The Kauffman Foundation will pay an honorarium of $5000 for each paper presented at the conference and will pay for the travel expenses of one author to attend the conference and preconference. The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland will host the 2009 conference and the Kauffman Foundation will host the 2008 pre-conference. Papers for the conference will be selected by Tim Dunne (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland), James Thomson (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland), Alicia Robb (University of California at Santa Cruz), and Scott Shane (Case Western Reserve University).
Abstract submissions of up to 2000 words are due May 15, 2008 and should be submitted electronically to scott.shane@case.edu. Invitations for papers to be presented at the pre-conference and conference will be issued by June 15, 2008.
Interested scholars may consult the Kauffman Foundation Web site at www.kauffman.org/datasymposium for information about many of these data sources and about Requests for Proposals for financial support to investigate some of the data sets.
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Alicia Robb, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow, Kauffman Foundation
Senior Economist, Beacon Economics
Research Associate, UC Santa Cruz
415.259.9009
arobb@ucsc.edu
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