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Wikiedia is a place to post information on projects that involve Ed Egan, as well as other reference material that may be of use to the academic community. For more information on these projects or other material on this site, or if you have problems accessing files (for academic purposes), please email ed@edegan.com.

Trialing a Wiki for BPP

At present, this wiki is also being used to trial a wiki for the Business and Public Policy (Strategy and Business Economics) group at the Haas School of Business, which in turn will be used to trial a wiki for the Business PhD program at Haas. The deployment of a server to host the BPP (and PhD) wiki is currently taking place, and relevant content from this wiki will be redeployed to the new environment. If you are a BPP PhD student or faculty member, please participate!

About

For details about me (Ed Egan), please see my Profile.

Security

• 18-08-2010: The site has had a major security overhaul. Access is now based on user and group permissions, and there is no anonymous editing. If you do not have an account, please sign up for one now!
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Strategy and Business Economics PhD at Berkeley

The BPP group has its own section!

The following pages are for BPP students:

• A current list of BPP students
• The 2011 Fall BPP Student Seminar (PHDBA279S)
• The BPP Social Calendar
• The BPP field exam
• The history of BPP Courses
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Course Material

Course material for courses I'm teaching:

• MBA201 - Micro Economics for MBAs
• PhD Masterclass - How to Build a Web Crawler
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Course material available from research courses includes:

• PHDBA 239DA - Financial Market Microstructure
• PHDBA 602 - Directed Study (Theory of the Firm)
• PHDBA 602 - Directed Study (Innovation Models)
• PHDBA 279A - Political Institutions, Business and Public Policy
• PHDBA 279B - Incentives and Organizations in Markets
• PHDBA 279C - Technology Dynamics and Firm Strategy
• ECON 224 - The Economics of Institutions
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Ed's Papers

My recent publications include:

• Brander, James A., Edward J. Egan and Thomas F. Hellmann (2009), "Government Sponsored Venture Capital in Canada: Effects on Value Creation, Competition and Innovation", in International Differences in Entrepreneurship, edited by J.Lerner and A. Schoar, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Working and draft papers are available in my Papers section.

Ed's Projects

Some projects (which may or may not have associated papers) have their own sections. These are predominantly for collaboration with other co-authors and/or stakeholders, so access may be restricted to some sections.

Current projects include:

• The NBER Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp
• The NBER Patent Data Project
• VC Bargaining - Restricted Access Only
• Classifying Names by Culture
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I also use my wiki to record some of my musings, though generally these pages are protected.

Reference Material

• Research Computing At Haas
• Working with PostgreSQL
• NBER Account Setup
• Data Dictionaries for WRDS and Thomson SDC Platinum are available from my repository
• Help using LaTeX.
• Jim Brander's Rules of Writing
• How to effectively hinder learning - a guide for teachers