Prepare a short (around10 pages long) research paper on one of the following topics:
1. Trade Policy of …. (a country of your choice)
2. Exchange Rate Policy of … (a country of your choice)
3. Structural Adjustment Policies in …. (a country or an economic region of your choice)
4. The Global Financial and Economic Crisis of 2007-2012: Causes, Symptoms and
Policy Remedies
5. Anti-Poverty Strategies and Policies in … (a country or an economic region of your
choice)
Paper format:
Title page (title, author’s name, abstract)
I. Introduction (state the main purpose of your study, briefly describe the working
hypothesis, also describe the analytical model (if any) and the methodology, paper
organization)
II. Literature overview
III. The model description or core analytical discussion of the main concept
IV. Empirical evidence
V. Conclusions
References
Footnotes, tables, figures can be included in the main text.
Useful internet library resources:
Social Science Research Network www.ssrn.com
Research Papers in Economics www.repec.org
Economists Online http://www.economistsonline.org/home
The German National Library of Economics http://www.zbw.eu/index-e.html
FRB St. Louis database: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
Scientific Commons http://en.scientificcommons.org/
Bank for International Settlements www.bis.org
IMF – Global Financial Stability Reports: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/gfsr/index.htm
and others.