Spring 2009
Mgmt 469, Empirical Methods in Strategy

Course Outline and Assignments:

Course Outline 2009

First Class Assignment

Henderson and Cockburn Paper -- Thought Questions

Yogurt Project Assignment

Medical Technology Project Assignment

Third Project Options

Hospitals

Internet Service Providers

Airline No-shows

Lecture Notes:

Ten Steps Towards Convincing Empirical Research
Stata In-class Instructional
Stata Tutorial: Estimating CAPM
Regression Basics
Getting Your Data Ready
Programming in Stata
Choosing the Right Variables
Fixed Effect Model
Maximum Likelihood
Nonlinear Relationships
Noisy Variables
Discrete Dependent Variables
Causality
Causality article from WSJ
Benchmarking and Regression

Helpful Tips:

Using Stata and preparing reports

Common Stata Commands
Transitioning from KStat to Stata
The Stata Log
Preparing Project Write-ups
Preparing Tables

Technical Notes

Model Building: The Three "Tiers" of Variables
Performing a Chow (partial-F) Test
Influential Observations
Using ANOVA to Complement Regression (a way to detect "action")
Dummy Variables and Interactions (may solve a mystery or two)
Regression Diagnostics
Hypothesis Testing in GLM Models

Course Data Files:

Stata data for CAPM tutorial
Additional data for CAPM tutorial

HMOdata
Kitchen Sink
OVB
BoxCox
puck

"Small" Yogurt Data Set (data from one store)
"Large" Yogurt Data Set (data from all stores)

Medical Technology Project Data

Hospital Financial and Service Data
Hospital Utilization Data

Internet Service Provider Data

Airline 1
Airline 2
Description of variables in airline data sets

More hospital data (Only use if you first decide you require a variable)

More info on neonatology and mri utilization
Data on patient travel
More data on patient travel
Research and education spending
More financial data
Zipcode level demographics
County level demographics
Cardiac and cancer utilization
Health Systems Area assignments
Neonatology use by zip code
Neonatology utilization by county

Required Readings:

Measuring Competence
Impact of IP Rights on the Market for Ideas
Optimal Scale for Research and Development

Optional Readings:

(These papers illustrate the use of empirical methods to answer a variety of interesting questions.)

Do Scientists Pay to Be Scientists?
Hospital Report Cards
Internet Use and Job Hunting
\Love or Money: Effects of Owner Motivation in the Wine Industry
More Guns, More Crime
Pass-through of Auto Manufacturer Promotions
Sumo Wrestling
Trade and growth
Upcoding