Keith Head
Professor
Sauder School of Business, Strategy and Business Economics Division
HSBC Professorship of Asian Commerce
University of British Columbia
B.A. Economics, Swarthmore College, 1986
Ph.D. Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991
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The Cabecao Blog
Teaching
on Sabbatical leave, July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010.
Online access to my book, Elements of Multinational Strategy
Research
Curriculum Vitae in PDF (Updated August, 2009, publication record begins on page 14)
Supplementary materials related to papers.
Publications
Working papers
Advice on doing research
- The introduction "formula" (adapted from advice John Ries and I received from Jim Brander)
- Advice for economists from Dan Hamermesh
- How to do empirical economics (a panel discussion lead by Francis Kramarz and featuring advocacy of the "treatment effects" approach (rather than structural methods) from Angrist and a nuanced argument for more theory-based methods from J.M. Robin: "Science is about understanding facts and mechanisms. Mathematics is not a science because there are no mathematical facts. Economics is about establishing and explaining economic facts... Economics is thus not different from physics. Physics has a huge capacity for controlling experiments but not always. Astrophysics, for example, must deduce mechanisms from sometimes very indirect observation. Like astrophysics, economics is a social science with little capacity for controlling experiments."
- How do I write a scientific paper? (Almost all of this advice applies to economics papers as well)
- Don Davis on picking a research topic. I particularly like the following advice Don gives: "...you would like to have your empirical work place some intellectual capital on the line . What views of the world will we affirm or abandon (strengthen or weaken) on the basis of your empirical work? If you do not have an answer to this, then the empirical work will not be very exciting." (italics added)
- The 10 Commandments for Regression Tables
- The 10 Commandments for Figures
- Do you hate doing math in Powerpoint? Wish you could port your LaTeX straight into a PDF presentation, while retaining the clickable items, colors of PPT? Try Beamer.
- Things I hate.
Contact Information
| Office: Henry Angus 268 | Mailing Address: |
| Tel: (604) 822-8492 | Sauder School of Business, UBC |
| Fax: (604) 822-8477 | 2053 Main Mall |
| E-mail: keith dot head at sauder dot ubc dot ca | Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z2 |
| | Canada |