Universität Wien

040144 UK Business History (UK) (2015W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

In this course, students present seminal or recent academic journal articles (“papers”) published in leading business history or related journals. The selection of the articles base on my research interest and cover the fields of corporate finance & governance, financial markets & institutions, and innovation.
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 50 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 24.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 24.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 01.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 01.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 15.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 15.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 12.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 12.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 19.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 19.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 26.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 26.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In general, students are allocated into team of two students, following the alphabetical order of students’ family names. Each team is required to present the content of one paper in one presentation of about 30-35 minutes, i.e., students have to work in teams. Moreover, students must write a 400 words executive summary of the two articles. This summary will be distributed to the other students in the class.

A decent presentation critically covers various topics, e.g.:
• What is the research question and why is this important?
• What kind of theory is, explicitly or implicitly, used in the article?
• What kind of data is used to (empirically) test the theory?
• What kind of method is used to test the theory?
• What are the results?
• Are you convinced by the question, design, and result of the paper?
• What have you actually learned by reading the article?
• What questions were raised, but not answered in the paper?

Please keep in mind that you are not showing a moving! Given the time constraint (30-35 minutes), you should not have more than 15 slides.
You may copy important tables, graphs etc. from the article, but your presentation should stay focused on the key points you want to make.

Type of examination:
Active participation in each session (25%)
Your presentation (50%)
Your executive summary (25%)

Assessment and permitted materials

Type of examination:
Active participation in each session (25%)
Your presentation (50%)
Your executive summary (25%)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Innovation (19 and 26 January 2016)
1. Griliches: Patent statistics as economic indicators – A survey, in: Journal of Economic Literature, 28 (4), 1990, 1661-1707
2. Sokoloff: Inventive activity in early industrial America – Evidence from patent records, 1790-1846, in: Journal of Economic History, 48 (4), 1988, 813-850
3. Khan and Sokoloff: Schemes of practical utility – Entrepreneurship and innovation among great inventors in the United States 1790-1865, in: Journal of Economic History, 53 (2), 1993, 289-307
4. Nicholas: Spatial diversity in invention: evidence from early RD labs, in: Journal of Economic Geography, 9 (1), 2009, 1-31
5. Nicholas: The role of independent invention in US technological development 1880-1930, in: Journal of Economic History, 70 (1), 2010, 57-82
6. Nicholas: Does innovation cause stock market run-ups? Evidence from the Great Crash, in: American Economic Review, 98 (4), 2008, 1370-1396
7. Streb, Wallusch, Yin: Knowledge spill-over from new to old industries: The case of German synthetic dyes and textiles (1878-1913), in: Explorations in Economic History, 44 (2), 2007, 203-223
8. Burhop and Wolf: The German market for patents during the second industrialization 1884-1913: A gravity approach, in: Business History Review, 87 (1), 2013, 69-93

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