CSEF-CEPR Conference on Labor and Finance
26-27 June 2026
Hosted by: University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Conference venue: Villa Orlandi Conference Centre, Anacapri, Italy
Presentations: 30 minutes for the author and 10 minutes for floor discussion; 20 minutes for PhD presentations
Friday, June 26
12:35-13:55 Registration and lunch
13:55-14:00 Welcome address
14:00-16:00 Session: Entrepreneurship
Chair: Andrew Ellul (Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, CSEF, CEPR and ECGI)
14:00-14:40 Elena Simintzi (Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, CEPR and ECGI)
Generative AI and Entrepreneurship (joint with A. Gupta, F. Qian and Y. Sun)
14:40-15:20 Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics, CEPR, ECGI)
Prompted to Start: HowGenerative AI is Transforming Entrepreneurship (joint with J. Bena and B. Bian)
15:20-16:00 Valentina Rutigliano (Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University)
Entrepreneurs as Households (joint with I. Hacamo)
16:00-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:15 Session: PhD Session
Chair: Gordon Phillips (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and NBER)
16:15-16:35 Afroza Alam (Halle Institute for Economic Research)
The Effects of Inventions on Firms and Workers: Causal Evidence from Quasi-Random Patent Allocation” (joint with A. Diegmann)
16:35-16:55 Ararat Gocmen (University College London)
Immigration and Firm Investment
16:55-17:15 Jinci Liu (IIES, Stockholm University)
Managing by Feedback
19:30 Dinner
Saturday, June 27
9:00-11:00 Session: Labor, Debt and Firms
Chair: Monica Langella (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF and CEP)
9:00-9:40 Marieke Bos (Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR)
Employee Debt Overhang and Firm Performance (joint with R. Bahai and P. Roth)
9:40-10:20 Jakob Beuschlein (RFBerlin, Humboldt University of Berlin)
Designing Debt Restructuring: The Adverse Effects on Labor Market Outcomes
10:20-11:00 Fabrizio Core (LUISS Guido Carli)
Board Gender Quotas and Female Borrowing: Evidence from Loan-Level Data (joint with A. D’Andrea, T. Eisert and D. Urban)
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-12:40 Session: Human Capital Development and Career Decision-Making
Chair: Jan Bena (University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business)
11:20-12:00 Yufeng Wu (Ohio State University)
Investing in Human Capital Incubation (joint with S. H. Lee, B. Seegmiller and M. B. Zhang)
12:00-12:40 Armando Miano (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF and CEPR)
Workers Beliefs about Occupational Mobility” (joint with P. Heß)
12:40-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 Keynote Lecture by Gordon Phillips (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and NBER)
Labor Reallocation and Unemployment Spells: The Role of Credit
Chair: Marco Pagano (University of Naples Federico II, CEPR, CSEF, ECGI, EIEF)
Organizers:
Andrew Ellul, Lorenzo Incoronato, Monica Langella, Marco Pagano, Lorenzo Pandolfi, Luca Picariello, Annalisa Scognamiglio