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Economics of Strategy 2011: Course Essay In your essay, I want you to apply the course material (broadly defined) to a relevant problem. I offer you three options. (a) You could pick paper from the list below, summarize it and propose a new question worth investigating as an extension. (b) You can do the same but for a paper that we jointly choose. (c) You can write an essay on any issue related to the Economics of Strategy but you have to have a well-defined research question. You are free to choose any topic you want as long as you can demonstrate that it is relevant to the course. You have until June 8th to tell me what you plan to do. If I have not heard from you by then I will assign you one of the articles below. The timing for the project is as follows. You will write a short proposal that we will discuss during the week of June 21-24. Your essay is due on July 4th. We will discuss in details your essays the last week of class (July 4-8). Regarding format issues, your essay should (a) introduce the question your are investigating (b) (briefly) review the theory(ies) and empirical findings that are related to your topic (c) present your proposal and discuss how it contributes to the economics of strategy. For example, you may propose a new testable hypothesis, describe what data and evidence that should be collected to investigate your hypothesis, present preliminary evidence and discuss what you can infer from this evidence. Alternatively, you could write a simple model (or sketch of model) that could shed some light on your question, derive the implications of a strip-down version of the model, and discuss the relevance to your question. List of articles:  Klepper, S., and K. Simons, "The Making of an Oligopoly: Survival and Technological Change in the Evolution of the U.S. Tire Industry," Journal of Political Economy 108 (2000), 728-760.  What do we know about entry? P. A. Geroski International Journal of Industrial Organization. Volume 13, Issue 4, December 1995, Pages 421-440  Managing with Style: The Effect of Managers on Firm Policies. Marianne Bertrand and Antoinette Schoar. Quarrterly Journal of Economics, Nov 2003, vol 143. Page 1169 of 1169-1208  Does management matter? Evidence from India. Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts. Mimeo 2011.  Architectural innovation: The reconfiguration of existing product technologies and the failure of established firms. Rebecca M. Henderson and Kim B. Clark. Administrative science quarterly, 1990, 35, 9-30.  Measuring Competence? Exploring Firm Effects in Pharmaceutical Research. Rebecca Henderson and Iain Cockburn. Strategic Management Journal. 1994, vol 15, 63-84.  Exploiting a Cost Advantage and Coping with a Cost Disadvantage. David Besanko, David Dranove, Mark Shanley. Management Science, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Feb., 2001), pp. 221-235  On the evolution of the firm size distribution: Facts and theory. Luis Cabral and Jose Mata. American Economic Review, 2003. 93, 1075-90.

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