Academic Archive

Publications

William M Volckmann II. Revenue effects of Denuvo digital rights management on PC video games. Entertainment Computing 52 (2025), 100885. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1jm306gYiZzu3a

William M Volckmann II. Fund-Level Debt. Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38738-9_261-1

Brown, Gregory, and William M Volckmann II. Unpacking Private Equity Performance. Journal of Portfolio Management (2024). https://doi.org/10.3905/jpm.2024.1.604.

William M Volckmann II. A model of digital rights management with user disutility. Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 20, no. 1 (2024): 59-83. https://doi.org/10.3934/jimo.2023069

William M Volckmann II. Consumer and critic reception of video game platforms: Trends from 2002–2022. Entertainment Computing 48 (2024), 100599. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2023.100599

William M Volckmann II. The effects of market size, wealth, and network effects on digital piracy and profit. European Journal of Law and Economics 55, no. 1 (2023): 61-85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10657-022-09750-9, Full-text PDF

White Papers and Research Notes

Brown, Gregory, and William M Volckmann II. Is the US IPO Market About to Thaw? Institute for Private Capital Research Note (2024). Full-text PDF, Press, More Press

Brown, Gregory, Christian Lundblad, and William M Volckmann II. What Do We Know About Institutional-Quality Hedge Funds? Institute for Private Capital Research Note (2024). Full-text PDF, Press

Brown, Gregory, Wendy Hu, David Robinson, and William M Volckmann II. The Performance of Small Business Investment Companies. Institute for Private Capital White Paper (2024). Full-text PDF

Brown, Gregory, Elyas Fermand, Wendy Hu, Richard Maxwell, and William M Volckmann II. Scale, Scope, and Speed in Private Capital Funds. Institute for Private Capital White Paper (2024). Full-text PDF

Old Materials

I tend to write cheat sheets, formula sheets, and other useful (hopefully) materials. I archive some here for posterity (click below to expand).

ECN 101 - Intermediate Macro
ECN 102 - Analysis of Econ Data (Stata)
ECN 102 - Analysis of Econ Data (R)

When using interactive scripts, press Shift + Enter to proceed step-by-step; or click on Runtime -> Run all to run the entire script. It will give a warning but I can assure you that my R script will not steal your credit card information.

ECN 121 - Industrial Organization II
ECN 134 - Financial Economics
ECN 160B - International Macro
Miscellaneous Notes

Courses TAed

Teaching Evaluations, Overall Histogram

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2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017