Dear students,
The link to the folder with the papers among which you can choose the one you want to present will be soon made available to you by e-mail.
When you have chosen your paper, reply to the mail using "reply all" indicating the paper you chose, so thet other students know that the paper has already been chosen.
If somebody else chose a papers before you, you have to choose another one.
As I explained in class, if the paper you choose is technical, mathematically or econometrically, you of course don’t need to go into the technicalities.
In that case, you can read carefully the introduction, the literature review, the main results and the conclusions. What you need to present, for these technical papers, is indicatively:
- What are the main research questions
- Why are they important in general
- How do they relate to our course
- What are the answers they provide (and how they get to the answers, but without too much technicality)
- How do the answers contribute to the knowledge we had before this paper was written
- Why the answers are important, in general and in relation to what we discussed in class
- What is your opinion on the study
Since you have 15 minutes, including questions, do not produce too many slides. Depending on how they are (try not to make them too full otherwise the audience will read them instead of listening to you), I think it should be below 10 sides, I would stay towards 7 or 8, and try how long does it take to present.
Please do not use characters smaller than 20 in the slides.
Take care
gs