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 Academic Year: | 2017/8 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Economics |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 40%, EX 60% |
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| Description:
| Aims: * To foster research skills, students will be required to work both independently and as part of a team. * To foster skills in data handling, data description and computing, students will be taught how to: generate diagrams in PowerPoint, insert PowerPoint diagrams into Word; generate equations in Word, present data in tables and graphs in Excel. Students will also be given an introduction to an advanced statistical software package (e.g. Stata, MATLAB). * To foster understanding of relevant economic statistics and hypothesis testing, this unit will include numerical work on microeconomic and macroeconomic datasets. * To develop presentational skills, students will be required to present a potential topic for their dissertation. Learning Outcomes: * By the end of the unit students will have acquired enhanced skills essential to undertaking and presenting quantitative research and will have developed competencies in using Excel to represent and analyse economic data. * Students will have participated in writing and presenting a group project, which will have enhanced their understanding of economic relationships from the Applied Microeconomics and Applied Macroeconomics units. * Students will be able to use and undertake basic programming in the selected statistical software package, will understand basic cleaning of microeconomic and macroeconomic datasets and will be able to produce a preliminary data description of those datasets. Skills: * Problem formulating and problems solving. * Information technology, particularly Excel. * Ability to formulate a research question. * Ability to analyse and manage data and conduct appropriate bibliographical searches. * Ability to work independently. * Ability to work and communicate effectively in a team. Content: The first part of this unit will consist of a summary of the overall structure of the research process. Topics covered include: searching for appropriate literature, sources of applied economic and financial data, research ethics, working with survey data, plagiarism, acknowledging sources and referencing conventions, finding a supervisor and managing the dissertation process. The second part of the unit will introduce students to Stata, emphasising the commands that are needed to import data from various sources, arrange and combine datasets and conduct empirical research in applied economics. |
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ES50115 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Economics
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