Schedule

MWF 12:20pm – 1:15 pm Early Fielding 109

Winter 2017 Schedule
Week	Day	Date	Topic	Theory	Texts
Week I	Mon	09-Jan	Introduction: Miller Lite & Anheuser Busch’s reaction	Simple Models, Complex Strategies	Hotelling
	Wed	11-Jan	Basics: PC & Monopoly	chalk-and-talk
	Fri	13-Jan		basic models, continued 4pm Economics Seminar Room TBA	Disrupters in the Auto Industry: Tesla, Uber, Google?
Week II	Mon	16-Jan	MLK DAY	NO CLASS	Commemoration at First Baptistdetails pending
			Beer Production	YouTube video (National Geographic Ultimate Factory)
	Mon	19-Jan	What is Beer?	class discussion
	Wed	21-Jan
Wed	21-Jan
Week III Blogging: Zheng, Watson, Tucker	Mon	23-Jan	Beer as a High Tech Industry	Ogle Chapters 1-3 first paper due	class discussion
	Wed	25-Jan	Oligopoly: Cournot & Bertrand
	Fri	27-Jan	no class	in NYC
Week IV Blogging: Shelby, Parker, Nieman	Mon	30-Jan	Discussion of US auto oligopoly	Why are price wars so unusual?	Smitka-Warrian Chs 1-2
	Wed	1-Feb	Industry Dynamics	Entry, Exit, Scale	Smitka-Warrian Chs 1-2
	Fri	3-Feb	Industry Continuity: The Wenzhou model Huang, Zuhui, Xiaobo Zhang, and Yunwei Zhu. 2008. “The Role of Clustering in Rural Industrialization: A Case Study of the Footwear Industry in Wenzhou.” China Economic Review 19(3): 409–20. Shen, Xiaoxiao, and Kellee S. Tsai. 2016. “Institutional Adaptability in China: Local Developmental Models Under Changing Economic Conditions.” World Development 87: 107–27.
Week V Blogging: Krasner, Kirchner, Judge	Mon	6-Feb	No Class	in Detroit
	Wed	8-Feb	No Class	in Detroit
	Fri	10-Feb	Guest Speaker: Michael Murphree	Murphree, Michael, and Dan Breznitz. 2017. A New Take on Economic Development in China’s Pearl River Delta. University of South Carolina and University of Toronto. Working paper.
Week VI Blogging: Jones, Embrey, Ellis	Mon	13-Feb	Discussion of Murphree Vertical Issues: Double Marginalization
	Wed	15-Feb	Horizontal Issues	Are Mergers Sensible?
	Fri	17-Feb	Deterrence: Fringe Firms, Capacity Strategies	2×2 Games
Washington Break
Week VII Blogging: Childress, Bannister, Aeschliman	Mon	27-Feb	Price Discrimination	Pure Cases
	Wed	1-Mar	Price Discrimination	Self-Selection
	Fri	3-Mar	Price Discrimination	Bundling
Week VIII Blogging: Zheng, Watson, Tucker	Mon	6-Mar	Advertising	Informative? Persuasive?
	Wed	8-Mar	Advertising	Elasticities & Models
	Fri	10-Mar	Advertising	Beer & Autos: PD?	read relevant beer & auto book portions!
Week IX Blogging: Shelby, Parker, Niemann	Mon	13-Mar	Discussion	Beer Paper Due
	Wed	15-Mar	Innovation: Science vs Invention vs …	The Photoelectric Effect	Case Study
	Fri	17-Mar	SSA!	no class
Week X Blogging: Krasner, Kirchner, Judge	Mon	20-Mar	Technology Models	Turnkey Projects: Tacit Knowledge vs Blueprints
	Wed	22-Mar	Innovation: Push vs Pull	discussion: EOS? shifts in MC? sources entry/exit?	Smitka-Warrian Chs 1-3
	Fri	24-Mar	IPR (I): What is a Patent?	Discussion – What Drives Innovation?: push vs pull vs (random) inspiration	Smitka Warrian Chapter 6
Week XI Blogging: Jones, Embree, Ellis	Mon	27-Mar	IPR (II): Does One Size Fit All? Patent Races, Blocked Innovation	Discussion: Technology Management	Smitka Warrian Chapter 7-8
	Wed	29-Mar	IPR in Practice Case Studies	What do firms actually use?	Rick Levin et al. Gentex
	Fri	31-MAR	Standards (QWERTY), Networks Case Studies	Technology and Strategy	Gentex (cont), ArcelorMittal
Week XII Blogging: Childress, Bannister, Aeschliman	Mon	3-Apr	no class	in Detroit	PACE Award ceremony
	Wed	5-Apr	Devil’s Backbone	discussion with Josh West	at DB on US 11 north of Walmart
	Fri	7-Apr	Disruptive Technologies?	Smitka ToTo Paper
Auto Paper due: Technology and Industry redux