1 / 5

Information about essays The deadline for essays: MARCH 16, 2008

Important information on submitting essays before the deadline, criteria for point deductions, preferred topics, and evaluation standards for economic argumentation. Choose from paper summaries, book analyses, or policy topics.

beckwith
Download Presentation

Information about essays The deadline for essays: MARCH 16, 2008

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Information about essays • The deadline for essays: MARCH 16, 2008 • Missing the deadline costs 2 point per day • Send the essay to me. I try to confirm receiving your essay in 24 hours. Include your name and the course title (using the wrong title costs you 1 points) etc. • Essay: 3-10 pages. • You can choose your topic in so far it is loosely related to the subject matter of the course • Can be part of your thesis or seminar work

  2. Try to be as coherent and clear as possible • Preferably use economic argumentation, correct economic and legal concepts • - e.g. Inappropriate title of the course: -1 points • Do not use jargon if not needed

  3. Suggestion 1: Summarize a scientific paper on IPRs. Tell me the paper with your own words. Evaluate the analysis and results critically in the light of real world or other literature. • Note that the technical level of scientific papers vary a lot. Choose a level that suits to you. But the more challenging paper you choose, the easier it is to gain points • Journal of Economic Perspectives is non-technical and excellent (e.g. Spring 2005 issue) • American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings are relatively non-technical, relatively excellent and extremely short • Law and management journals are often non-technical. The same applies to Research Policy

  4. Suggestion 2: Summarize a book or larger body of work • The books by Jaffe & Lerner, Rivette & Kline are non-technical and excellent, and short for a book. • You can also summarize a chapter from Scotchmer’s book that is not required for the exam. • A recent (September 2006) special issue in Journal of Economic Surveys could also work • A recent WP on the objectives of the EPO by Guido Friebel et al. www.idei.fr

  5. Suggestion 3: Choose a policy or management topic. Analyze it in the light of literature and real-world/empirical evidence • Pool with suggestion 1. Search for a suitable paper of the topic and summarize it. • Pool with suggestion 2. Search for a suitable larger body of work dealing with the topic and summarize it. • e.g.: • - Piracy and music industry. Special issue in Journal of Law and Economics, April 2006. Summarize one paper from there (option 1) or the whole issue (option 2) • - Open source: Lerner & Tirole, JIE-02, JEP-05, Lakhani & Von Hippel ResPol-03, Evans&Wolf Harvard Business Review -05 , Maurer&Scotchmer-06, etc….

More Related