An economics research paper includes the parts listed below. Some of these may be, and often are, combined into sections of the research paper. Depending on the nature of the research question, some ...

The UC Santa Cruz Economics Department was ranked sixth in the world–and fifth among all academic departments–for research in international finance, according to recent rankings compiled by Research ...

Two programs within the Department of Economics at UC Santa Barbara have been ranked among the top 10 in the nation by Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), a volunteer-driven initiative to create a ...

Students in the Department of Economics are given accounts on one of the Unix servers managed by the Department, which provides support for computationally intensive applications such as Stata, MATLAB ...

Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

What began as a Colgate research paper earned Abrielle Silva ’26 first place at the New York State Economics Association’s 2025 Undergraduate Paper Contest.

Greenlaw, S. (2006) Doing Economics: A Guide to Understanding and Carrying Out Economic Research. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. This is a concise handbook that shows students the research process, step-by ...

A PhD in Economics consists of two years of coursework, followed by a thesis which is expected to take three years. The coursework requirement involves three PhD-level core courses in microeconomics, ...

AN OLD joke: a policeman sees an inebriated man searching for his keys under a lamp post and offers to help find them. After a few fruitless minutes, the officer asks the man whether he’s certain he ...

The impact and influence of research papers can be adversely affected by long titles, too many authors and poor punctuation, new research has found. A review of more than 150,000 papers submitted to ...

Prior studies have found evidence of name-based discrimination in hiring. But while such research often used fake applications to examine how would-be employers responded to names distinctively ...