ECON 7900 - Research Seminar

3 credit hours

Prerequisites: ECON 7630; student must have passed Ph.D. qualifying exams in microeconomics and macroeconomics. Students practice writing academic papers, critiques, and monographs in economics and finance with some emphasis on developing a viable dissertation proposal. Incorporates a detailed discussion of essential steps in the publication process such as identifying a topic, fitting it into the literature, developing a theoretical background, preparing the data, choosing an appropriate methodology, and presenting the results, as well as pitfalls to avoid in working on dissertations and academic papers.

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