Guidelines Literature Exam Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation (MSI) October 29, 2013 1. Objectives The purpose of the literature exam is to provide students with a broad overview of the literature in their field and to allow them to deepen their knowledge of particular subfields. Achieving these objectives represents an important step towards determining which topics students wants to study and what questions they want to address in their doctoral dissertation. Doctoral students are required to take the exam by the end of their first year in the doctoral program. 2. Procedure To participate in the MSI literature exam students should do the following. 1. Choose one of the following five fields of study: 1) Economics of Science, R&D and Innovation (Examiner: Reinhilde Veugelers) 2) Industrial Organization (Examiner: Otto Toivanen) 3) Innovation Management (Examiner: Bart Van Looy) 4) International Business and Economics (Examiner: Leo Sleuwaegen) 5) Political Economy (Examiner: Christophe Crombez) 2. Meet with the field’s examiner early in the academic year to discuss 1) what your interests are, 1 2) what courses to take, 3) what material to read from the reading list, and 4) what extra material to look for. 3. Communicate their choice of field to Frederic Van Wassenhove before the end of December. 4. Read the agreed material. 5. Attend the MSI seminars and write a report (2 to 3 pages) on one of the seminars. 6. Participate in the exam. 3. Format The literature exam is set-up as a take-home exam that is held over the course of two days. Students receive the exam questions at 9 AM on day 1 of the exam and hand them in by 6 PM on day 2. The exam takes place in late May/early June. Students who do not pass the exam may be given an opportunity to take it again in early August. The dates of the exam will be set early in the academic year. In 2014 the dates for the exam will be: May 27-28 and August 7-8. 2 4. Field Specific Information (Preliminary, may be updated prior to March 1, 2014) 4.1 Economics of Science, R&D and Innovation Students are expected to have a good knowledge of the broader economics literature (theories, methodologies, data, findings, implications) on Science, R&D and Innovation. They should also have a sound familiarity with the closely related management literature on the topics. Students are advised to discuss their PhD courses with the contact team. The course on the Economics and Strategy of Innovation is a default choice for students in this area. The exam will exist of a number of questions asking to reflect on the literature and /or a request to review critically paper results. To prepare for it, students should do the following: a. study the following set of material, which reviews the major areas, methodologies and results. Hall & Rosenberg (Eds.), 2010, Handbook of the Economics of Innovation Chapter 1.3: Technical change and industrial dynamics as evolutionary processes (Dosi & Nelson) Chapter 1.4: Empirical studies of innovative activity and performance (Cohen) Chapter 2.1: Economics of Science (Stephan) Chapter 2.3: Property rights and invention (Rockett) 3 Chapter 3.3: Technical innovation and the theory of the firm: the role of enterprise level knowledge, complementarities and (dynamic) capabilities (Teece) Chapter 6.2: Returns to R&D and productivity (Hall, Mairesse, Mohnen) Chapter 6.4: Using innovation surveys for econometric analysis (Mairesse, Mohnen Chapter 7.1: Systems of Innovation (Soete, Verspagen) Note: Depending on the profile and the research interests of the students, other chapters of the Handbook may also be highly recommended and further add-ons can be discussed. Other Innovation-Handbook material which students may consult as background material is Stoneman, 1995, Handbook of the Economics of Innovation and Technological Change I.O. and Strategy Theory models: Martin, 2001, Advanced Industrial Economics, Basil Blackwell, Chapter 14 R&D: 14.1-14.6: Tirole, 1989, The Theory of Industrial Organisation, MIT Press, Chapter 10: R&D and the Adoption of Technologies Cabral, L, Introduction to IO, Chapter 16: Research and Development Patent Statistics Jaffe, A. & M. Trajtenberg, 2000, Patents, Citations and Innovations; MIT Press, (chapters:TBA) Griliches, R&D and Productivity1998, Chapter 13: Patent Statistics as Economic Indicators: A survey 4 Guellec and van Pottelsberge, 2007, The Economics of the European Patent System, OUP, Section 1.1-1.3 Innovation Management: Debackere. “Management of Innovation: A Synopsis of Major Findings.” Bedrijfseconomische verhandeling 97. KULeuven. Brown & Eisenhardt. “New Product Development: Past research, present findings and future directions” Academy of Management Review, 1994. Frank T. Rothaermel, Shanti D. Agung and Lin Jiang (2007) University entrepreneurship: a taxonomy of the literature Industrial and Corporate Change, pp. 1 of 101 b. read a number of key articles and understand this literature, compare approaches and results, and critically reflect on these papers. The set of key articles to be studied will be determined by the examiner in coordination with the student depending on his specific research interests c. keep abreast of recent papers published in Research Policy 5 4.2 Industrial Organization To really master the modern tools required to do research in industrial organization, one needs to attend taught courses and do the exercises given out in those courses. The literature exam is structured as a take-home exam where the objective is that the student writes an essay on each of 2 articles chosen by the examiner. A good guide to what is needed in such an essay can be found on Phil Haile’s www-site (http://www.econ.yale.edu/~pah29/teach.htm , “Questions to guide reading of empirical papers”). While that document is, as the name suggests, for empirical papers, the same advice can relatively easily be translated for theoretical papers. To allow the student to deepen his/her knowledge, the reading list is structured as a menu. It contains 3 parts: i. Survey articles ii. Research articles chosen by the examiner iii. Research articles suggested by the student The survey articles provide valuable background information on techniques and substance. Reading them thoroughly will therefore assist the student in writing the best possible essays. The examiner, after the discussion with the student, chooses the background material that the student should read. The research articles (ii. and iii.) are the menu from which the examiner chooses 2 for the student after having had a discussion with the student on his/her interests. The reading list provided below (ii.) is not meant to be exhaustive; rather the opposite. 6 The student is required to suggest additions to the reading list. To be able to do so, the student should go through the last few (3-5) years’ volumes of the leading economics journals that publish IO articles, and the forthcoming articles in these journals. These journals include AER, JPE, QJE, REStud, Etrica, RAND and REStat. Articles from other journals may be suggested, too. The student should suggest at least 5 articles that, upon approval of the examiner, will be included in the menu of articles from which the examiner chooses the articles on which the essays are written. The menu will also include all the below mentioned research articles that are relevant for the student; this will be decided after the discussion between the student and the examiner. 1. Survey articles The student should choose at least 3 survey articles from the following list. The rule that should be followed is that the survey articles should be related to the topics of the research articles that student wishes to cover. Ackerberg, D., Benkard, Lanier, Berry, S. and Pakes, A., 2007, Econometric Tools for Analyzing Market Outcomes, in Heckman, J., and Leamer, E. (eds.). Handbook of Econometrics, vol. 6A. Aguirregabiria, V., and Nevo, A., 2010, Recent Developments in Empirical Dynamic Models of Demand and Competition in Oligopoly Markets, forthcoming in (Econometric Society Monographs) on Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications. Angrist, J., and Pischke, S., 2010, The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2010, 3-30. 7 Armstrong, M., and Porter, R., 2007, Handbook of Industrial Organization vol. 3. All chapters. Athey, Susan and Haile, Phil, 2007, Nonparametric Approaches to Auctions, in Heckman, J., and Leamer, E. (eds.). Handbook of Econometrics, vol. 6A. Einav, L., and Levin. J., 2010, Empirical Industrial Organization: A Progress Report, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2010, 1-18. Nevo, A., and Whinston, M., 2010, Taking the Dogma Out of Econometrics: Structural Modeling and Credible Inference , The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2010, 69-82. Pesendorfer, M., 2011, Estimation of (Dynamic) Games: A Discussion, forthcoming in (Econometric Society Monographs) on Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications Reiss, P. and Wolak, F., 2007, Structural Econometric Modeling: Rationales and Examples from Industrial Organization, in Heckman, J., and Leamer, E. (eds.). Handbook of Econometrics, vol. 6A. 2. Research articles These articles are available from the journal’s www-page or the author’s www-page. If you experience problems, contact Otto Toivanen. Acemoglu, D. and Akcigit, U., 2011, Intellectual Property Rights Policy, Competition and Innovation, Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming. Asker, J., 2010, A Study of the Internal Organisation of a Bidding Cartel, American Economic Review, v100(3), 724-762, 2010. 8 Bar-Isaac,H., Caruana, G., and Cunat, V., 2011, Search, Design, and Market Structure”, forthcoming in American Economic Review. Biais, B. and Perotti, E., 2008, Entrepreneurs and new ideas, RAND Journal of Economics, RAND Corporation, vol. 39(4), pages 1105-1125 Cabral. L. 2011, Dynamic Price Competition with Network Effects, Review of Economic Studies, 78, 83-111. Crawford, G. and Shum, M., 2005, Uncertainty and Learning in Pharmaceutical Demand, Econometrica, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Jul., 2005), pp. 1137-1173. Crawford, G. and Yurukoglu, A., 2010, The Welfare Effects of Bundling in Multichannel Television Markets, forthcoming, American Economic Review. Duso, T., Röller, L-H., and Seldeslachts, J., 2010, Collusion through Joint R&D: An Empirical Assessment, WP. Farrell, J., and Shapiro, C., 2008, How Strong Are Weak Patents?, American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 98(4), pages 1347-69 Goeree, M. and Helland, E., 2010, Do Research Joint Ventures Serve a Collusive Function?, WP., University of Zurich. Gowrisankaran, G., and Rysman, M., 2010, Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods, wp Boston University. Hendel, I., and Nevo, A., 2006, Measuring the Implications of Sales and Consumer Inventory Behavior, Econometrica, November 06. Henry, E., and Ponce, C., 2011, Waiting to imitate: on the dynamic trading of knowledge", The Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming. Holmes, T., 2011, The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density,” Econometrica, Vol. 79, No. 1 (January, 2011), 253-302. Ho, K., Ho, J., and Mortimer, J., 2010, The Use of Full-line Forcing Contracts in the Video Rental Industry, forthcoming, American Economic Review. 9 Hopenhayn, H., Llobet, G., and Mitchell, M., 2006, Rewarding Sequential Innovations: Prizes, Patents and Buyouts, Journal of Political Economy, 104(6), pp. 1041-1068, 2006. Johnson, J., and Myatt. D., 2006, On the Simple Economics of Advertising, Marketing, and Product Design, American Economic Review, 96(3), pp 756-784, June 2006. Manso, G., 2011, Motivating Innovation, Journal of Finance, forthcoming. Nocke, V., and Whinston, M., 2010, Dynamic Merger Review, Journal of Political Economy, 2010, vol. 118(6), 1200-1251. Nocke, V., and White, L., 2007, Do Vertical Mergers Facilitate Upstream Collusion? American Economic Review, 2007, vol. 97(4), 1321-1339. Ryan, S., 2011, The Costs of Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry, forthcoming, Econometrica. Schmidt-Dengler, P., 2010, The Timing of New Technology Adoption: The Case of MRI, manuscript, University of Mannheim. Takahashi, Y., 2010, Estimating a War of Attrition: The Case of the US Movie Theater Industry," University of Mannheim. Takalo, T., Tanayama, T. and Toivanen, O., 2011, Estimating the Benefits of Targeted R&D Subsidies, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming. 10 4.3 Innovation Management Reading List Nelson R. & Winter S. (1977) In search of useful theory of innovation. Research Policy, 5,36-71. Lavie, Dovev , Stettner, Uriel and Tushman, Michael L.(2010) 'Exploration and Exploitation Within and Across Organizations', The Academy of Management Annals, 4: 1, 109 — 155. March J. (1991) Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning. Organization Science, 71-87. Brown & Eisenhardt. “New Product Development: Past research, present findings and future directions” Academy of Management Review, 1994. Allen T. & Katz R. (1982) Investigating the Not Invented Here (NIH) syndrome: A look at the performance, tenure, and communication patterns of 50 R & D Project Groups; R&D Management, vol 12, 1, 7 - 20 Van de Ven, Andrew (1986). “Central Problems in the Management of Innovation.” Management Science, Vol. 32,5. Henderson, Rebecca M. and Kim Clark (1990). “Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms.” Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 35. pp. 9-30. Burgelman R. (1983) A process model of internal corporate venturing in the diversified major firm. Administrative Science Quarterly, 223 - 244 Teece, D. 1986 Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy. Research Policy, Volume 15, Issue 6, December 1986, Pages 285-305 Teece D. 2006. Reflections on Profiting from Innovation. Research Policy, Volume 35, Issue 8, October 2006, Pages 1131-1146.Special issue commemorating the 20th Anniversary of David Teece's article, "Profiting from Innovation", in Research Policy Hagedoorn, John. (2002). Inter-firm R&D partnerships: an overview of major trends and patterns since 1960. Research Policy 31: 477-492. Debackere. “Management of Innovation: A Synopsis of Major Findings.” Bedrijfseconomische verhandeling 97. KULeuven Bower, J. L., and C. M. Christensen. "Customer Power, Strategic Investment, and the Failure of Leading Firms." Strategic Management Journal 17, no. 3 (March 1996): 197-218. 11 Frank T. Rothaermel, Shanti D. Agung and Lin Jiang (2007) University entrepreneurship: a taxonomy of the literature Industrial and Corporate Change, pp. 1 – 101 Wheelright S. and Clark K. (1992). Creating project plans to focus product development. Harvard Business Review, March-April, 70-82. Clark K. and Wheelright S. (1992). Organizing and leading heavyweight development teams. California Management Review, Spring, 9-28 Hall & Rosenberg (Eds.), 2010, Handbook of the Economics of Innovation o Chapter 1.4: Empirical studies of innovative activity and performance (Cohen) o Chapter 2.1: Economics of Science (Stephan) o Chapter 2.3: Property rights and invention (Rockett) o Chapter 6.2: Returns to R&D and productivity (Hall, Mairesse, Mohnen) o Chapter 6.4: Using innovation surveys for econometric analysis (Mairesse, Mohnen) 12 4.4 International Business Economics Students are expected to have a good knowledge of the broader literature on International Business Strategy and International Business Economics. This knowledge can be obatined by successful completion of the courses International Business Economics or International Business Strategy, or equivalent courses, and by mastering the material contained in the monograph of Caves (2007) and the book by Spulber (2007): Caves, Richard E., 2007, Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis, second edition (MIT Press, Cambridge). Spulber, D., 2007, Global Competitive Strategy, First ed. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge) In addition, student should read a number of key articles in the various subdomains of International Business (listed below) and should be able to understand this literature, compare approaches and results, and critically reflect on these papers. It is also recommended that students keep abreast of recent papers on the topic publisehd in the Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, and Management Science. The exam will exist of a number of questions asking you to reflect on the literature and /or a request to review critically a paper in one of the different domains (but not necessarily a paper on this list). Entry and Location Choice Shaver JM. 1998. Accounting for Endogeneity When Assessing Strategy Performance: Does Entry Mode Choice Affect Survival? Management Science, 44(4): 571–585. 13 Gimeno, J., R.E. Hoskisson, B.D. Beal and W.P. Wan. 2005. Explaining the Clustering of International Expansion Moves: a critical test in the U.S. Telecommunications industry. Academy of Management Journal, 48 297-319. Belderbos, R. van Olffen, W. and Zou, J. 2011, General and Specific Social Learning Mechanisms in Foreign Investment Location Choice, Strategic Management Journal 32, 1309–1330, 2011. Chen, M.X., and M.O. Moore, 2010, Location decision of heterogeneous multinational firms, Journal of International Economics, 80, 188-199. FDI, International R&D and Knowledge spillovers Griffith R., Harrison R. and Van Reenen J. (2006). How special is the special relationship? Using the impact of US R&D spillovers on UK firms as a test of technology sourcing. American Economic Review, 96(5), 1859-1875. Alcacer J. and Chung W. (2007). Location strategies and knowledge spillovers. Management Science, 53(5), 760-776. Singh, J. (2007). Asymmetry of knowledge spillovers between MNCs and host country firms. Journal of International Business Studies, 38(5), 764-786. Javorcik, B. S. (2004). Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers through Backward Linkages. American Economic Review 94(3), 605-627. Haskel, J.E., Pereira, S., Slaughter, M., 2007. Does inward foreign direct investment boost the productivity of domestic firms? Review of Economics and Statistics 89 2), 482–496. FDI and Real Options Kogut, Bruce and Nalin Kulatilaka, 1994, Options Thinking and Platform Investments: Investing in Opportunity, California Management Review, 52-71. Kouvelis, P., Axarloglou, K., & Sinha, V. 2001. Exchange rates and the choice of ownership structure of production facilities. Management Science, 47(8): 1063-1080. Belderbos, R.A., & Zou, J. 2009. Real options and foreign affiliate divestments: A portfolio perspective. Journal of International Business Studies, 40: 600-620. Trade and FDI Yeaple, S.R, 2009. Firm Heterogeneity and the Structure of U.S. Multinational Activity, Journal of International Economics, 78, 206-215. Carr, D., Markusen, J., Maskus, K., 2001. Estimating the knowledge-capital model of the multinational enterprise. American Economic Review 91 (3), 691–708. Hanson, G., R. Mataloni and M. Slaughter, 2005, Vertical Production Networks in Multinational Firms, Review of Economics and Statistics 87(4): 664–678. 14 Multinationals and Performance Qian, G., Khoury, T.A., Peng, M.W., & Qian, Z. 2010. The performance implications of intra- and inter-regional geographic diversification. Strategic Management Journal, 31: 1018-1030. Lu, J.W., & Beamish, P.W. 2004. International diversification and firm performance: The S-curve hypothesis. Academy of Management Journal, 47(4): 598609. Belderbos, R, Tong, T. And Wu, S. 2011, Multinationality and Downside Risk: The Contingent Roles of Option Portfolio Characteristics and Organizational Factors,, Working paper, MSI. K.U. Leuven. International Entrepreneurship Jones, M.V., Coviello N., Tang Y.K., 2011. International Entrepreneurship research (1989-2009): A domain ontology and thematic analysis, Journal of Business Venturing, 26( 6), 625-631 Autio, E., Sapienza, H.J., Almeida, J.G. (2000), Effects of Age at Entry, Knowledge Intensity, and Imitability on International Growth, Academy of Management Journal, 43 (5), 909-924. Fernhaber, Stephanie A., Gilbert, Brett Anitra and McDougall, Patricia P. (2008), International Entrepreneurship and Geographic Location: An Empirical Examination of New Venture Internationalization, Journal of International Business Studies, 39(2): 267-290. Offshoring Ottaviano, G.I.P, Peri, G. , Wright, G.C., Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs, NBER Working Paper No. 16439, Oct. 2010 Barba Navaretti, G., D Castellani and A-C Disdier, 2010. How does investing in cheap labour countries affect performance at home? Firm-level evidence from France and Italy, Oxford Economic Papers 62, 234-260., Coucke K, Sleuwaegen L, 2008, Offshoring as a survival strategy: Evidence from firms in Belgian manufacturing, , Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 39, no. 8, pp. 1261-1277. 15 4.5 Political Economy Students should discuss their coursework with the examiner. Applied Game Theory and Economics of Information are required courses. At the exam students will be asked 2 or 3 essay questions related to the readings. One of the questions may require the students to demonstrate some game-theoretical modeling skills. The other questions will require the students to show a clear understanding of the literature in particular subfields and the ability to critically analyze that literature. To prepare for the exam students should do the following: Read papers 1-12 from the list below. Read about half of the papers 13-24: discuss with the examiner which ones. Go through the last 3 years’ volumes of the following journals: American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, European Union Politics, and possibly others (to be discussed with the examiner), and determine with the examiner which of the articles in these volumes to read (about 20). Early Work 1. Shepsle, Kenneth. 1979. “Institutional Arrangements and Equilibrium in Multidimensional Voting Models.” American Journal of Political Science. 23:2760. 2. Shepsle, Kenneth, and Barry Weingast. 1984. “Political Solutions to Market Problems.” American Political Science Review. 78: 417-34. 3. Gilligan, Thomas and Keith Krehbiel. 1987. “Collective Decision-Making and Standing Committees: An Informational Rationale for Restrictive Amendment Procedures,” Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 3:287-335. 4. Baron, David and John Ferejohn. 1989. “Bargaining in Legislatures,” American Political Science Review, 83:1181-1206. 16 Government Formation and Electoral Systems 5. Austen-Smith, David, and Jeffrey Banks, 1988. “Elections, Coalitions, and Legislative Outcomes.” American Political Science Review. 82: 405-22. 6. Baron, David. 1993. “Government Formation and Endogenous Parties.” American Political Science Review. 87:34-47. 7. Cox, Gary. 1990. “Centripetal and Centrifugal Incentives in Electoral Systems.” American Journal of Political Science. 34:903-35. 8. Myerson, Roger W. and Robert Weber. 1993. “A Theory of Voting Equilibria.” American Political Science Review 87:102-114. EU Politics 9. Crombez, Christophe. 1996. “Legislative Procedures in the European Community.” British Journal of Political Science. 26:199-228. 10. Crombez, Christophe. 1997. “The Codecision Procedure in the European Union.” Legislative Studies Quarterly, 22:97-119. 11. Crombez, Christophe and Simon Hix. 2011. “Treaty Reform and the Commission’s Appointment and Policy Making Role in the European Union.” European Union Politics, 12:291-314. 12. Crombez, Christophe and Wim Van Gestel. 2011 “The Treaty of Lisbon and European Union Trade Policy: A Political-Economic Analysis.” Working Paper. Other Papers 13. Grossman, Gene and Elhanan Helpman. 1996. “Electoral Competition and Special Interest Politics.” Review of Economic Studies. 63:265-86. 14. Groseclose, Tim and James Snyder. 1996. “Buying Supermajorities.” American Political Science Review. 90: 303-15. 15. Alberto Alesina and Howard Rosenthal. 1996. “A Theory of Divided Government.” Econometrica. 64:1311-41. 17 16. Carrubba, Clifford and Craig Volden. 2000. “Coalitional Politics and Logrolling in Legislative Institutions.” American Journal of Political Science, 44: 261-77. 17. Snyder, James M., Michael M. Ting, and Stephen Ansolabehere. 2005. “Legislative Bargaining under Weighted Voting” American Economic Review 95:981-1004. 18. Banks, Jeffrey S., and John Duggan. 2000. “A Bargaining Model of Collective Choice,” American Political Science Review 94:73-88. 19. Gordon, Sanford C., Gregory A. Huber, and Dimitri Landa. 2007. “Challenger Entry and Voter Learning,” American Political Science Review 101: 303-320. 20. Feddersen, Timothy J., and Wolfgang Pesendorfer, 1996. “The Swing Voter’s Curse,” American Economic Review 86:408-424. 21. Dewatripoint, Mathias and Jean Tirole. 1999. “Advocates,” Journal of Political Economy 107:1-39. 22. Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. 2001. “A Theory of Political Transitions,” American Economic Review 91: 938-963. 23. Snyder, James M., and Michael M. Ting. 2002. “An Informational Rationale for Political Parties,” American Journal of Political Science 46: 90-110. 24. Harstad, Bard. 2005. “Majority Rules and Incentives,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 1535-1568. 18