Overview
Detailed Instructions about the Course Paper and its Grading:
Your paper should emphasize quality rather than quantity, and its structure should contain four sections: Introduction and objective, Review of Literature, Economic Analysis and Summary and Conclusion. The paper should be at least 10 pages in length without the Title Page.
Select any one of these three topics for your course paper. Empirical papers with data analysis will receive maximum credit.
- Government Regulation and Commercial Banking
- The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on Commercial Banking
- Smart Phones: A Comparative Analysis of Apple and Samsung
- Analyze the impact of covid on an industry of choice
- Assess the market structure and position of a company you have agreed to review with your instructor. The look of this paper follows the guide below (and in the Week 1 Live Sessions and Handouts folder)
- MarketAssessment.docx
The final form that your research paper should take is outlined in the parts a) through d) below. Everything having to do with your paper is worth a maximum of 80 points. The whole paper is due the last day of class and is worth 80 points points. However, in weeks 1, 2, and 3, five points of those 80 points can be secured in advance of the paper submission by respectively submitting:
1) In week 1, a declaration of your topic and a thesis statement. This describes what you are going to write about, what you want to say about the subject, meaning what you will do with it, and where you hope to end up with it.
2) In week 2, another 5 points can be earned by turning in a list of at least five references that you think will be able to make a contribution to your paper.
3) In week 3, another 5 points can be earned by turning in an outline of the main points you hope to cover in your paper.
The remainder of the points will be achieved by submitting the final paper, which should take the following form. Don't hesitate to contact your instructor if the following form does not make sense to you or possibly for your topic. The earlier the better to contact the instructor, so you don't agonize any longer than necessary and so that you have the maximum amount of time to achieve your goal of a finished paper.
a). The introduction should be 1-2 paragraphs long. Specify the objective as clearly as possible. It should set the relevance of the topic and finish with the main question or questions you want to answer in this paper. The introduction must also state your main argument, idea or hypothesis of your paper.
b). Review of Literature. In this section, review several studies similar to what you are writing on. Make sure to give proper credit to each author(s) whose work you are quoting. Use the APA guidelines in referencing each article, book, journal or the Internet source. In the final paragraph or paragraphs of this section, explain how your paper will contribute to the body of knowledge. This section should be 3-4 pages long.
c). The Economic Analysis section should be 2-4 pages long. In this section you should present the empirical evidence and with the help of some microeconomic tools, you should explain rationally what happens in reality. Include terms like demand, supply, variable and fixed costs, marginal or incremental changes, marginal and average costs, price elasticity, income elasticity, maximization, minimization, normal profit, competitive markets, product differentiation, market structure, oligopoly, and other relevant terms.
d) The summary and conclusion should be directly related to the objective of your paper. This section should be about one page long and it should answer the questions introduced in the objective of the paper. Be sure there is a strong connection between the introduction and the conclusion. You can also expand on the implications of your answer and predict something about the future.
The Final page or pages of your paper must contain the "Reference" section. The references must be drawn from the body of the paper. Use the APA style in listing the References. Your References should include at least one scholarly article relevant to your paper, a relevant book (not a textbook) and several Internet references.