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The document provides guidance on completing an economics project. It recommends narrowing the topic and motivating its choice with data or charts. A good analysis uses tools learned and avoids fiction. Diagrams and clear conclusions are important. The recommended structure includes: an introduction; literature review; main analysis and discussion using theory; policy implications; and conclusions. Data sources include NBER, OECD, IMF, and collecting one's own data.

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Economicsproject:Discussion: The Written Report: Structure Thewrittenreport:Structure

The document provides guidance on completing an economics project. It recommends narrowing the topic and motivating its choice with data or charts. A good analysis uses tools learned and avoids fiction. Diagrams and clear conclusions are important. The recommended structure includes: an introduction; literature review; main analysis and discussion using theory; policy implications; and conclusions. Data sources include NBER, OECD, IMF, and collecting one's own data.

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• Nextsteps:

– Refine/narrowdownyourchoiceoftopic.Trytobe(reasonably)
focused.
• Why?
– Ingredientstogetahighmark
Economicsproject:Discussion • Agoodtopic.Innovationwillberewarded.
– Motivateyourchoiceoftopic(couldusecharts,dataetc)
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• Agoodanalysis
– Usethetoolsyou’velearnedinthemoduleforyouranalysis
– Keepinmindthatyouwriteanassignmentoneconomics,notsciencefiction.
– Usediagrams– anddiscussthem.
DrNicholasVasilakos • Goodstructure
– Morewaysthanonetoachievethis– willsuggestatemplate.
• Policyimplications?
Policy implications?
– Ifit’seconomics,ithaspolicyimplications.Identifythemanddiscussthem.
• Clear(andsignificant)conclusions
– Whatisnotasignificantconclusion:reinventingthewheel.
What is not a significant conclusion: reinventing the wheel

Recommendedstructure
The Written report: structure
TheWrittenreport:structure
(notabible– butasignal)
II.Titlepage:thetitleofthepaper,followedbyashort
Ti l h il f h f ll db h III Literat re re ie Di
III.Literaturereview:Discusstheapproachesandresultsofprevious
th h d lt f i
studiesonthis(orrelated)topic(s).Provideasummaryofhowpaperfits
abstract(nomorethan150words)andthenamesand withthisliterature.
student IDs of the group members The names should
studentIDsofthegroupmembers.Thenamesshould
beputinalphabeticalorder,unlessonememberhas IV.Mainanalysis&Discussion: Thiscanbemorethanonesections– or
contributedmoretotheprojectthantherestofthe splitinsubsections.Thisisthecoreofyouranalysis.
group– inwhichcasetheirnamemustappearfirst.  analysisofthechosenissueusingrelevanteconomic theory
 remedies(perhapstherearemorethanone– inwhichcase,
II.Introduction:Discussthenatureandobjectivesofthe compare?)
p )
topic,provideageneraldescriptionofthescopeofthe
i id ld i i f h f h  Links:althoughyouwillhavetospecialiseonaparticularset
issuethatyouaregoingtodiscussand/orpoliciestobe ofquestions(e.g.choicetheory),youwill soonrealise
evaluated Here you should motivate your paper by
evaluated.Hereyoushouldmotivateyourpaperby thatit hasimplicationsforothersectors
p oftheeconomy.
y
explainingwhytheproposedtopicisinterestingand
important.
Structureoftheassessment:Written Structureoftheassessment:Written
report report
• V.Policyimplications: VII.Bibliography:cite(correctly)every
ibli h i ( l )
– Bespecific
p paper/datasetyoureferto/use,usingthe
Harvardreferencingsystem.Recallallwarnings
– Whatpolicytoolscanbeused(e.g.subsidiesora
tax) to achieve desirable outcome
tax)toachievedesirableoutcome.
aboutplagiarism,whichweDOtakeVERY
SERIOUSLY.
– Hassomethinglikethishappenedbefore
anywhere before? How did it work out?
anywherebefore?Howdiditworkout? VIII.Appendices:hereiswhereyouputany
pp y p y
lengthytablesorsupplementarymaterial.Do
• VI.Conclusions: not include any irrelevant information– itwillbe
notincludeanyirrelevantinformation it will be
– Bespecific ignored.

Wheretofindwhatyouneed
Where to find what you need data
Wheretofindwhatyouneed
Literature
• Id
Identifyrelevantarticlesfromscholarlyjournals–
tif l t ti l f h l l j l e.g. • Somegoodplacestolookfordatainclude:
S d l t l kf d t i l d
AmericanEconomicReview,theEconomicJournal,Regional (1) NBER– www.nber.org/data/ (broadrangeofdata)
Studies,OxfordBulletinofEconomicsandStatisticsamong (2) Economagic  http://www.economagic.com/ timeseriesdata
others. (3) WRDS http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu/  microdata
– Someofthemmaybetechnicalandwillusemoreadvanced (4) WorldBank:http://data.worldbank.org/ macrodata
techniquesthanyourcurrentlevel–
q y stilltrytofocusonideas
y (5) IMF:http://www.imf.org/external/data.htm
IMF: http://www imf org/external/data htm  countrylevelfinancial
country level financial
mainresults,interpretationandstructureofthepaper. andmacrodata
• Use“Googlescholar”toidentifyarticlesrelatedwithakey (6) OECD:(linktoolong)– gotowww.OECD.org andclickon
word (try to make your searches specific for better yields)
word(trytomakeyoursearchesspecificforbetteryields). “Statistics”
Statistics tab.Generalmacro/developmentdata.
tab General macro/development data
• HavealookatRePEc (ResearchPapersinEconomics (7) UNCTAD:Googleitandclickon“Statistics”ontheresultslist.
http://ideas.repec.org/i/p.html) Generalmacro/developmentindicators(mostlytrends).
– Hereyoucanfindnotonlypublishedbutalso ( ) YoucanalsoGoogleorcollectyourowndata
(8)
working/discussionpapers(i.e.ongoing work).Use“search”tab
tosearchforparticularkeywords.

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