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ECON 2000 – Money, Markets and Democracy Written Assignment (25% of Final Grade) Research Essay Prepare a conventional academic research paper on ONE of the topics listed below

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ECON 2000 – Money, Markets and Democracy

Written Assignment (25% of Final Grade)

Research Essay

Prepare a conventional academic research paper on ONE of the topics listed below.  

  1. Required length: 2,000 words (that is, 8 double spaced pages in 12 point Times Roman font NOT counting charts, graphs, tables, bibliography etc.)
  2. All information taken from 3rd party sources must be properly cited and referenced in the text.  Citations may be in APA or MLA format as you prefer.
  3. Unacknowledged copying, even if paraphrased or “text jumbled”, is plagiarism.  As has been explained, plagiarism is forbidden by College rules and will be dealt with severely.  If you have ANY doubt about what constitutes plagiarism, please ask me, the Library or the Writing Centre.

 

  1. Research sources must be academically credible.  Blogs, videos, other self-published documents, news or social media are not acceptable.
  2. A separate list of sources must appear on a final bibliography page that is NOT included in the word count.
  3. You must submit an electronic copy of your work to the Assignment dropbox on the course website.  It must be in a single file in a standard file format (MS Word, pdf, odt).
  4. A 5% per day mark deduction will be applied for late assignments

 

The paper will be evaluated on:

 

  1. Demonstrated understanding of the question and ability to apply course material
  2. Demonstrated ability to present a clear, compelling logical argument supported by empirical evidence
  3. Breadth, quality and relevance of your research with proper referencing
  4. Accuracy, relevance and overall quality of evidence provided 
  5. Clear, correct written English at an undergraduate level

 

Each dimension represents 20% of the assignment grade.

 

LIST OF TOPICS

  1. In various books and essays, Robert Shiller has put forward some of the more readable critiques of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis.  As far as I can tell however, they all rely on his “excess volatility” argument about the U.S. stock market.  Provide a critical explanation of the “excess volatility” argument.   Does it really undermine the EMH or not?  (Note: Shiller makes all his data freely available on his website).
  2. Various academic proponents of behavioural finance have set up investment advisory businesses to apply their the “principles of behavioural finance”  (Richard Thaler: Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, https://www.fullerthaler.com/ ; C. Thomas Howard: AthenaInvest, https://www.athenainvest.com/ ).   In a practical money management context, what are these “principles”?  Do they lead you to do anything that “conventional” asset managers don’t already do? How does “behavioural investing” perform comparec to other strategies over the past thirty years?   (Note: US hedge funds report their holdings quarterly (13F filings) to the SEC.  The data is freely available).
  3. Like a game of musical chairs, it seems pretty obvious that leverage matters in financial markets.  In fact, a substantial literature on “leverage cycles” (promoted by John Geanakoplos for example) dates from the early 2000s.  Provide a clear explanation of the “leverage cycle” argument.  Can we find data that would let us apply the idea in planning an investment strategy?

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