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The student should be able to within the limitation of a 10 ECTS course:
• Formulate a well-defined problem and argue for the relevance and usefulness of this problem formulation.
• Identify relevant literature, describe the essence of it and argue for its relevance, and reflect on its strengths and weaknesses related to the problem formulation.
• Identify and apply relevant empirical and/or analytical methods and explain their relevance and limitations for the problem formulation.
• Apply economic tools and methods to analyse the economic issues and evaluate the results in a comprehensible form.
• Reflect on the obtained results in relation to the problem formulation, the methodology used and the literature and derive the most important conclusions of the analyses.
• Apply a scientific, clear and concise language to present the analysis.
Topics in Economics and Management is a special course of study used as an umbrella for students writing a small paper in a topic of their choice, hence it is possible for the students to work on a topic where there is not enough students to justify lecture series. The subject of the paper must be accepted by a faculty member who will act as a supervisor.
The paper may form the basis for an oral examination - before the paper is handed in the supervisor decides whether an oral exam will be used. When the topics paper has been accepted and the student has handed in one copy to the supervisor, the student will also have signed up for the topics exam. When an oral examination is required, the supervisor will inform the student about the exact time of the examination.
Upon application to the Study board for Economics and Management, the 10 ECTS paper may count as one of the written activities required in the academic regulations for the MSc-program (see below).
The title of the topics paper will be indicated on the student's course diploma.
Approved faculty member from the relevant subject area of the topic paper.
Students who want to prepare a Topics paper should contact an approved professor (to become the supervisor) to discuss the contents of the topic. The topic must be agreed on with the supervisor, who may also provide a list of possible required reading. The paper (20 pages at most) must be handed in to the supervisor on the date agreed upon with him/her.
Home assignment only, or home assignment followed by an oral examination without preparation as decided by the supervisor.
Internal marking: One copy is handed in to supervisor
External marking: Two copies is handed in to supervisor
