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