2500 word essay

1 TERM PAPER SUBJECT

Choose any topic of your choice related to the article “A Century of US Central Banking: Goals,

Frameworks, Accountability” by Ben Bernanke. Your topic can come from literally anywhere (the

textbook or any reasonable media outlet, e.g., WSJ, The Economist, Bloomberg). Write a paper of

no less than 2500 words about the topic you choose. But keep these in mind.

• Do not have too broad of topic.

• Smaller topics are easier to get at the analysis. For example, understanding the great recession

is too big.

Note: Plagiarism is strongly prohibited for the term paper. In order to be free from this issue, you

MUST CITE ANY SOURCES that are used in your term paper.

2 GRADING POLICY

1. You should turn your own term paper individually. Any group works will not be accepted.

2. Any late submissions will not be accepted.

3 POTENTIAL DATA SOURCE

You might want to conduct some data analyses for your term paper. If so, you can find most of U.S.

macroeconomics data, including GDP, price index, and so on, from the following two webpages.

• Bureau of EconomicAnalysisWebpage (http://www.bea.gov/national/nipaweb/

DownSS2.asp)

• St.Louis Fed Webpage (http://www.research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/)

Any solid data analyses will be compensated a lot!

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