Term Paper in Global Finance

As part of the course you will write an original paper on an international finance topic. The paper should
be short and focused. It should use original data. The paper will be written in four stages and you will
present your findings in class.
One page description of the topic (for example, how successful has World Bank Group been in
achieving its objectives?) that you are interested in. You should articulate the question/hypothesis that
you would like to test. You should also briefly describe the data that you plan to use and reference at
least one relevant paper (published or unpublished).
Your paper should have four parts: introduction, data, analysis, and conclusion. The introduction should
state the question that you are asking, explain why this question is important, how you plan to answer
the question, and how it is related to what others have done. The data section should describe the data
that you are using. This may include the description and discussion of the data source, variables that you
are using and a table with descriptive statistics. The analysis may consist of a series of graphs, tables,
correlations and perhaps even a regression. The conclusion should summarize the results, state their
implications, and suggests further research.
Presentation: Your presentation should be no more than 10 minutes long. You should prepare 5-6 slides
summarizing the issue that your paper addresses, the motivation, its relation to existing work, your
findings and conclusions. Each presentation will be followed by a 10 minute question and answer period
in which all students are expected to participate.