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Teaching
Courses in the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis

My teaching begins with a careful consideration of the topics and specific content. Each piece of content must have some specific use or application. Each  is presented in a way that concentrates on the essential ingredients making up the concept, and how they work together to produce the concept. Finally I discuss a variety of applications that illustrate the power of the idea to inform one’s thinking and expand it. 
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Microeconomics

MEC 290 (Microeconomics) is the foundational economics course for BSBA students at Olin. It explores and applies the theory of the consumer and firm, as well as their interaction in different market structures. There is focus on bringing precision to both analysis and communication, and emphasis on the idea that economics is the social science that studies all aspects of human behavior.
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Research in Industry Analysis

MEC 400K (Research in Industry Analysis) integrates the game theory and econometrics learned in its prerequisites with the industry analysis methods employed by consulting companies. Each team of students focuses on a single firm and applies the five methods learned to that firm. Each team also participates in two case competitions applying the class content to the client firm. There is a great deal of emphasis on analytical thought and client-friendly communications.
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Economics of Entertainment

MEC 460 (Economics of Entertainment) explores the unusual economics of the Entertainment industry, with primary emphasis on music and movies. Class sessions include a variety of interactive speakers from industry, breakout sessions in which teams of students explore a topic and make presentations on their reasoning, and case competitions often involving personal branding of an entertainment figure, as well as a consulting-like interaction with an entertainment company.   
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Managerial Economics:
​Incentives, Markets and Competition

MEC 722 (Managerial Economics: Incentives, Markets and Competition) is the primary Economics course for Executive Education students at Olin. It covers basics such as supply/demand, perfect competition, monopoly and oligopoly, as well as decision analysis, game theory (normal form, extensive form and coalitional). Each concept/model is accompanied by a variety of applications illustrating its use. 
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Research
Center for Research in Economics and Strategy (CRES)

The way CRES is structured is the embodiment of Subversion, Minimalism, and Action. It promotes change and growth by only supporting research and research-related activities that are novel and changing the way we explore the edge of knowledge about economic activity. It also focuses on the sort of elegant and insightful projects that are most likely to find their way to top tier journals, and so have maximum impact on the economics profession. CRES is run like a venture capital company. There are no long term plans, bureaucracy, or application procedures, and minimal staff. We are constantly on the lookout for interesting new research that CRES can support and advance. 

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Projects and Publications

• "Some Economics of Novelty" 
• "Industry Evolution with Producer and Consumer Network Externalities", with Emin Dinlersoz
• "Innovation Incentives", with Nina Baranchuk and Jun Yang
• "Do new entrants sustain, destroy or create guaranteed profitability?", Strategic Management Journal, with M. Ryall, 2018
• "The Economics of super managers", Review of Financial Studies, with N. Baranchuk, J. Yang, 2011
• "Legal Institutions, Sectoral Heterogeneity, and Economic Development", Review of Economic Studies, 529-561, with R. Castro, G. Clementi, 2009
• "How do value creation and competition determine whether a firm appropriates value?", Management Science, 1319-1333, with M. Ryall, 2004
• "Investor Protection, optimal incentives and economic growth", Quarterly Journal of Economics, with R. Castro, G. Clementi, 2004
• "The economics of has-beens", Journal of Political Economy, S289-S310, with M. Weisbach, 2004
• "Adverse Specialization", Journal of Political Economy, 864-899, with L. Marx, 2001
• "Competitive Diffusion", Journal of Political Economy, with B. Jovanovic, 1994
• "The life cycle of a competitive industry", Journal of Political Economy, 322-347, with B. Jovanovic, 1994

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