ECON.bscsem - Bachelor's thesis seminar, Lecture, 16.9.2021-9.12.2021
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Topic outline
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The lecture assignments consist in reading a short text (blog post or similar) or listening to a short podcast on a theme related to the lecture, and responding to a few prepared questions.
For each lecture assignment, read the assigned text/listen to the assigned podcast and respond briefly to the following questions. Your answer should be maximum half a page long.
Lecture assignments are due at 10 am on the day of the related lecture.
There will be in total 7 assignments, and you need to submit answers to 4 of them. Feedback is not given individually, but general feedback/discussion on the assignment will be given in the lecture.
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Examples of good BSc theses Folder
This folder contains some examples of theses from previous years that received a good grade (4 or 5).
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This link will take you to the recorded session from 23.9 with Anu from the university Library. You need to log in with your Aalto credentials to see the video.
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This ranking of academic journals in Economics and related fields give an indication of which are the respected journals.
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This is a Finnish official classification and rating of journals in different academic fields. You can search by journal name here. If a paper that you consider is in a journal not included in this classification, then you should treat that with high reservations.
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CEPR’s policy portal, set up in June 2007 to promote "research-based policy analysis and commentary by leading economists".
Useful place to get inspiration about what kind of research is done in economics.
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VoxDev is a platform for economists, policymakers, practitioners, donors, the private sector and others interested in development to discuss key policy issues.
Useful place to get inspiration about what kind of research is done in Development economics.
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This file shows an overview, by student number, of how many lecture assignment, and which ones, each students have passed after 6/7 of the lecture assignments were submitted. If you have passed at least 4, you have passed this component of the course and the last column PASS=Yes