entrepreneurial finance
From: Joan Farre-Mensa (@jfm82)
📢Call for papers for the ESADE Entrepreneurial Finance Conference, organized by Vicente Bermejo, Martà Guasch, and me in Barcelona on March 11–12, 2027. Confirmed speakers: Michael Ewens, Sabrina Howell, Ramana Nanda & David Robinson. Submit by June 30: https://t.co/Rv8LpNHTL9
Suggested talking points
The conference brings together scholars who have published empirical research on venture capital allocation and founder selection mechanisms—Ewens and Howell's work on VC decision-making, Nanda and Robinson's research on information asymmetries in early-stage funding—providing practitioners with evidence-based frameworks rather than anecdotal best practices.
Barcelona's positioning as a secondary entrepreneurial hub (outside Silicon Valley and Boston) allows the conference to examine how entrepreneurial finance mechanisms differ across geographies, regulatory environments, and access to institutional capital—a gap in existing literature dominated by U.S.-centric studies.
The March 2027 timing aligns with post-cycle evaluation periods when GPs and LPs reassess fund performance and allocation strategies, making this a practical venue for discussing portfolio construction, founder-investor fit, and capital efficiency metrics with decision-makers rather than academics alone.
Position the call as an outlet to reach institutional capital allocators seeking empirical evidence on venture funding mechanisms, not a general entrepreneurship conference.
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