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• The main goal of the course is to teach students how to apply methods of economic research in their own research projects.
• Students will be able to evaluate the quality of data and decide on the appropriate method of processing according to the data type.
• Students will be able to structure the output of economic research to the appropriate target group of readership.
Last update: Potluka Oto (07.12.2020)
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The condition for successful completion of the course is the elaboration of a work that will take the form of an article in order to make a theoretical basis with current issues, or systematic literature or analysis in a specific area. Last update: Potluka Oto (16.12.2020)
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• Brooks, C. (2019). Introductory econometrics for finance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 4th edition • Creswell, J. W., Báez, J.C. (2020). 30 essential skills for the qualitative researcher, Thousand Oaks CA: SAGE Publications, Second edition • Galletta, Anne. (2013). Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond : From Research Design to Analysis and Publication, New York NY: New York University Press • Grant, Aimee. (2019). Doing excellent social research with documents : practical examples and guidance for qualitative researchers, London England New York New York: Routledge • Wooldridge, J. F. (2009). Introductory econometrics : a modern approach, Australia: South-Western Cengage Learning, 4th edition Last update: Potluka Oto (07.12.2020)
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1. Research in economics - Issues that economic research deals with. Economic thinking, ethics in economic research. 2. Determination of the state of scientific knowledge - theoretical framing of research, sources of literature, definition of research goals and research questions. 3. Structure of economic research - choice of the form of future output, choice of the audience, selected output, structure of the research output, preparation of the output. 4. Data collection - primary and secondary data, publicly available sources, selection of data and evaluation of their usability, representativeness of the sample, experimental economics. 5. Qualitative research methods - investigation of a research design, interviews, focus groups, observations, case studies. 6. Qualitative research methods - data processing (methods, software), conclusions from data. 7. Qualitative research methods - examples. 8. Quantitative research methods - econometric approaches to causality, applied econometrics. 9. Quantitative research methods - randomized studies, matching methods (propensity score matching). 10. Quantitative research methods - differences in differences, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity. 11. Quantitative research methods - structural models. 12. Quantitative research methods - examples. 13. Combining qualitative and quantitative research in economics. 14. Presentation of research results - forms of outputs and their impacts on the dissemination of information on research results. Last update: Potluka Oto (07.12.2020)
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The condition for successful completion of the course is the elaboration of a work that will take the form of an article in order to make a theoretical basis with current issues, or systematic literature or analysis in a specific area. Last update: Potluka Oto (16.12.2020)
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Form | Significance |
Defense of an individual project | 100 |