Insegnamento a.a. 2013-2014

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CLMG (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - M (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - IM (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - MM (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - AFC (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - CLAPI (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - CLEFIN-FINANCE (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - CLELI (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - ACME (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - DES-ESS (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08) - EMIT (6 credits - I sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/08)

Course Director:
ALFONSO GAMBARDELLA

Course Objectives

This course provides the students with basic tools and methods to produce empirical evidence to support decision-making processes in firms. Since these methods are particularly common in the analysis of innovation and new product development, topics in this area represent the leading example of the course. However, the methods are broad enough to cover other areas of managerial decision, like demand analysis for the commercialization of products. As a result, the tools of the course can be useful in a large number of settings or situations.

Course Content Summary

• Testing hypothesis using tables, figures or "stories"
• Assessing causality relationships in firms, demand of new products or innovation analyses
• The use of natural experiments to evaluate innovation or new product development projects
• Other approaches to the evaluation of innovation or new product development projects
• How to best select your sample for innovation studies and related decision-making
• The anaysis of the survival of innovation projects

Detailed Description of Assessment Methods

For non attending students

Written exam

For attending students

The evaluation of the attending students is based on a series of assignments consisting in short empirical projects produced in groups and presented in class. 

 

Textbooks

For  non attending students

• J. WOOLRIDGE, Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, Thomson 4 ed.
• A. FIELD, G. HOLE (2003) How to Design and Report Experiments. Sage
• Course Handouts and Slides

For attending students

• J. WOOLRIDGE, Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, 4 ed. Thomson
• A. FIELD, G. HOLE (2003) How to Design and Report Experiments. Sage
• Course Handouts and Slides

Exam textbooks & Online Articles (check availability at the Library)

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