Business and Economics Growth Related Questions

BADM 735-A01 Spring IG 2021 Dr. Doug Miller

Project 2

Due by 10PM (Eastern) on Monday, February 1

For the next part of our term research assignment (Project 3), we will update the dataset to include 2020 data, and then we will use our regression model to estimate the impact of the COVID-19 shutdowns on real GDP per capita. The purpose of this assignment is to review the professional business and economic literature on previous events that had substantial impacts on GDP growth. The UC library provides many resources for conducting a literature review. To begin, you should go to the library main page at www.ucumberlands.edu/library and select Research Guides and Business from the menus. You should arrive at the main business resources page:

To search the business literature, you can use the databases listed under the Top Resources page,

or you can click on the Articles & More tab to find a more extensive list of the most commonly

used business search tools. These resources include Business Source Premier and JSTOR, which

cover many of the economic and business journals that publish articles related to GDP growth.

For example, you can click on Business Source Premier and use the search menu options to look

for appropriate publications. In particular, you could start by looking for publications that include

the key words “GDP growth” and “SARS 2003” in the publication abstract to find publications

about the impact of the 2003 SARS event on GDP growth.

Business Source Premier covers a very broad range of publications from top journals to popular

press outlets like business magazines, so you have to be selective when choosing from the list of

references provided by this search.

JSTOR is more selective and mainly covers top journals from many distinct fields, and you can

target your research to very specific outlets. For example, you can click on the Advanced Search

option, and JSTOR provides a list of all journals by category and by name. As shown below, you

can select all journals in the Business and Economics categories to conduct a broad search for

GDP growth publications.

For this assignment, you should gather at least 5 references that provide information about

previous events that have impacted GDP growth. After gathering the references, you should

write a brief one to two page summary of the findings, and this document will be part of the

literature review section of the final term paper submitted for Project 4. Also, you should provide

a reference list that includes each of your cited references. The references should be listed in

alphabetical order by the first author’s last name, and each citation should follow APA format.

If you are unfamiliar with APA format, you can ask me for help or use the Citation Help tab at the

UC library page for Business resources. Under this tab, you can follow the link for the Purdue

OWL (Online Writing Lab) to review a summary of APA format, or you can click on the link for the

Academic Writer site to get more detailed help with the references. Academic Writer requires

you to create a free account to access the site, but it offers many useful tools for dissertation

writers, so you may wish to start using Academic Writer now so you are familiar with these tools

for your dissertation research. Please let me know if you have any questions about APA format

or the parts of this assignment.

In summary, your submission for Project 2 should include a 1-2 page review of the literature you

find plus a reference list that includes five or more citations listed in alphabetic order (by the first

author’s last name).