Research Workshop in Economics

Objectives

The students first contact with research; they will be encouraged to being working on it as of the beginning of the academic year, mainly in the Research Methods course.

The course has the objective of introducing the students to the basics steps of conducting research in social sciences, particularly Economics and Finance. 


General characterization

Code

6123

Credits

15

Responsible teacher

TBA

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Available soon

Prerequisites

n/a 


Bibliography

TBA 


Teaching method

The workshop will be based on lectures where the main methodological issues are presented followed by discussion sessions where students are involved in problem solving that allows them to acquire research skills. These include presentation of research problem in the course followed by take-home assignments consisting either building a simple theoretical model or an empirical analysis (including data gathering) to provide a tentative answer to the proposed question 

 

Evaluation method

The workshop will be based on lectures where the main methodological issues are presented followed by discussion sessions where students are involved in problem solving that allows them to acquire research skills. These include presentation of research problem in the course followed by take-home assignments consisting either building a simple theoretical model or an empirical analysis (including data gathering) to provide a tentative answer to the proposed question 

 

Subject matter

Introducing to philosophy of science and research methodology

Designing a theoretical framework: parsimony in model building, gaining insights with simple models, devising the crucial hypothesis to identify the mechanism

Designing empirical research and identification strategies – regression analysis, randomize control trials, quasi-experiments

Design and collect survey data

Introduction to research software: Matlab, Stata, Mathematica 


Programs

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