ECO 4810. Seminar in Economics

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Instructor: John Whitehead
Last Update: 01/07/2010

Dissemination of Results

The final presentation is worth 10% of your grade. The presentation grade is 40% for the MS Powerpoint slides, 40% for the oral presentation and 20% for attendance. The slideshow should include at least 10 slides. Each slide should contain enough information to allow the listener to get an idea of what you achieved and should be visually attractive/interesting. The presentation will be given in front of the entire class. This presentation will be about 10 minutes during which you are to outline your final paper and describe your main results.

Presentation outline:

  1. Title
  2. Problem description
  3. Literature review
  4. Theory
  5. Data
  6. Model
  7. Results
  8. Interpretation of results
  9. Conclusions
  10. Future research

An example: Willingness to Pay for Low Probability, Low Loss Hazard Insurance

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