Economics 591-B2   Graduate Research Workshop I   Winter 2010


Instructor:  Stuart Landon

Office:  Tory 7-23

e-mail:  Stuart.Landon@ualberta.ca



I will post a course outline sometime in December 2009.



Lecture Notes






Useful Readings on Writing and PhD Thesis Research (These are not required.)

John Cochrane - Writing Tips for PhD Students

John Creedy - Starting Research

John Creedy - Starting Research and Writing a Research Paper

John Creedy - A PhD Thesis Without Tears

Don Davis - PhD Thesis Research: Where do I Start?

Avinash Dixit - My System of Work (Not)

Lynne Kiesling - Writing Guidelines for Economics (and pretty much anything else)

Miles and Trefzger - A Practical Guide to Better Writing

(The paper by Miles and Trefzger is for real estate classes, but it has many useful writing tips.  I have only included the title page and the pages with the most relevant tips.)

University of Toronto Department of Economics - Tips for Second Year paper (and other) Authors

Hal Varian - How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time

The Hamilton College Writing Center (http://www.hamilton.edu/writing/tips_guides.html) has many useful writing tips.





Links to password protected versions of papers that may be discussed in class

Alesina et al AER 2002

Chinn and Meredith IMFSP 2004

Estrella EJ 2005

Fatum and Scholnick JB&F 2008

Ferrer and Riddell CJE 2008

Girma et al CJE 2008

Green and Odegaard JF 1997

Propper et al EJ 2008

Sefton et al EJ 2008

Trebbi et al QJE 2008