Current event research paper

Current Event Research Final Paper (8-10 pages, single spaced, APA style)

How to choose your current event:

The current event must have been in the news within the last six months. To find a topic of interest, start reading the financial and business news now. Once you find a news story, you will research it more deeply, including the relevant economic facts and/or model.

What to include in your paper:

· a detailed description of the current event

· a detailed discussion of some relevant economic models ( for ex: David Ricardo models, Heckscher-Ohlin models, Paul Krugman models, William Nordhaus models, J. M. Keynes, Fisher effect, Policy Implications: Monetary & Fiscal ,MNCs & Transfer Pricing, Capital Budgeting etc) – explain from the very beginning, as if your reader knows nothing about the topic; this is how you demonstrate your understanding of the theory.

· an analysis of the current event – Why is it important to the industry? What companies will care about this news story? What will its impact be? Who will win? Why? You can choose to answer any or all of these questions (or any other question). The goal is to demonstrate meaningful application of economic theory to facts, and deep thinking about the issues presented by the news story

Guidelines:

1. For your term paper, you should begin with a clear thesis, and then assemble economic models, logic, and evidence to support that thesis

2. A thesis is not just a topic. A topic is something you write about, a subject you report on. A thesis is a claim about reality, something you must argue for. You cannot get a top grade for a paper that is just a report on some current financial development, no matter how interesting.

3. To avoid even the appearance of plagiarism, references must be clearly linked to the text through parentheses (Smith, 2016), footnotes, or endnotes.   It is not acceptable to just put references at the end with no way to see which text connects with each reference.

4. The most common form of plagiarism in student papers is to have exact or approximate quotes of material, with a reference, but without quotation marks or indentation. Any direct quote must be in quotation marks or, if more than one sentence, in a paragraph indented to the right of the normal text.  For example, one might write:

Expressing both the brutality and revolutionary power of international trade, Marx & Engels wrote in The Communist Manifesto (1848):

The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate.  It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves.