Journal Article Critique

GUIDELINES FOR JOURNAL ARTICLE CRITIQUE

This assignment has three purposes:

(1) to have you identify and interpret scholarly research results;

(2) to learn some economic results relevant to the study of money, banking, and/or financial institutions; and

(3) to improve your written communication skills.

The article is bellow :

The Federal Reserve and Panic Prevention: The Roles of Financial Regulation and Lender of Last Resort Author(s): Gary Gorton and Andrew Metrick Source: Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Fall 2013), pp. 45-64

The Article will be uploaded in a separate PDF file

Your written critique should be no more than three pages long (typed, double-spaced, one-inch

margins, 12-point Times New Roman font). Please include a complete APA-formatted citation for the paper you are critiquing: title, author, journal, and publication date. The citation may be included as a footnote.

Typically, 1.5 - 2 pages of the journal article critique will summarize the article. To fit your summary in 1.5 - 2 pages, you will have to be concise.

The 1.5 - 2 pages of summary will be followed by 1 - 1.5 pages of critique. Questions you must answer include: (1) Is the title of the article appropriate and clear?

(2) Is the purpose of the article made clear in the introduction?

(3) Has the author been objective in his or her discussion of the topic?

(4) Is the objective of the experiment or of the observations important for the field? How so?