The class will combine lectures with detailed paper discussions and presentation. In some session, I will assign you to deliver a presentation and lead the discussion.
A power point presentation is required. After presentation, the power point
presentation file needs to be handed in. An important part of the class, however, is the research discussion. All students are expected to carefully read the main papers and actively participate in the discussion. The discussion will assume that everybody has read the papers.
A presentation of an empirical paper should include (i) motivation, (ii) the main hypotheses and their theoretical foundations, (iii) the methods for testing the hypotheses and their appropriateness, (iv) the main findings, (v) the implications and contributions, and (vi) possible steps for future research.
A presentation of a theoretical paper should include (i) motivation, (ii) the important assumptions in the model, the main results, and the robustness of the results to deviations in the assumptions, (iii) the technique used to derive the results, (iv) the economic intuition behind the results, and (v) possible steps for future research(including, but not limited to, improvements in the methodology or scope of the paper).