Assignment:
Requirements for Assignment 2: Length 6 pages, typed double-spaced in 12-point font)
1. Include an overall summary of the literature
What types of articles are they (empirical/theoretical/policy brief) and what research questions and outcomes do they examine?
2. Integrate the information from your sources into specific themes By outcomes examined or by types of effects found (positive/negative)
3. DO NOT just summarize each source individually.
4. Summary content: highest scoring papers in this category will have sufficiently summarized the literature, highlighting the data, methods, main results and conclusions of the papers.
5. Thematic summary: highest scoring papers in this category will have the summary grouped into themes based on things like outcomes examined, or methods used, or types of results found (positive vs. negative). Papers that summarize each source individual will receive a zero for this category.
6. Grammar and style: highest scoring papers in this category will have been well edited and have minimal grammar mistakes and will be 6 pages in length and typed double-spaced in 12-point font.
7. Sources cited: highest scoring papers in the category will have identified peer-reviewed economics journal articles on the given topic and cited them in APA style.
Reading
1. Short-Term Interest Rates as Predictors of Inflation
By EUGENE F. FAMA*
2. Short-Term Interest Rates as Predictors of Inflation
By EUGENE F. FAMA*
3. THE REAL INTEREST RATE GAP AS AN INFLATION INDICATOR
Katharine S Neiss,Edward Nelson,
4. Interest Rate Policy and the Inflation Scare Problem: 1979-1992
Marvin Goodfriend