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This page contains links that will help you in writing your research papers.
More precisely, the sites and articles mentioned should help you in

  • finding a research topic.
  • searching for related literature
  • locating data
  • getting tips on writing papers
  • getting tips on presenting papers

Some General Material

On Plagiarism 
 Read these

Notes on Plagiarism

  • If you use other people's work, acknowledge that you do so and cite their work! Plagiarism is considered very serious misconduct!

On how to write a bibliography

  • You can read chapter 9-12 in Kate Turabian, 'A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations'

How some famous economists work


Also interesting are
 


A site containing links to everything economists might want to know


 Where to find Ideas

Be informed!! So read newspapers, magazines, listen to radio, watch television news, surf on the net, look around you!

Tv-sites

Newspapers

Magazines

Local

Inspiration can also be found by

browsing through some recent issues of scientific journals

Some journals that focus on survey articles:

Some top journals

Some top research journals dealing with economics of transition

  • Problems of Economic Transition
  • The economics of transition
  • Voprosy Ekonomiki, Russia
  • Ukrainian Economic Review
  • Russian Economic Trends
  • Post-Soviet Affairs
  • Post-Soviet Geography and Economics
  • Post-Communist Economies
  • Economic Policy in Transitional Economies

Some Russian economics journals

An alternative source: the

programs of some recent conferences

On these programs, you can get a glimpse of what's hot at this moment in Econland!

The May issues of the

AEA

publishes the papers of some sessions of the previous years AEA meeting

Another source is the syllabi of courses

As an Example, some links to

courses in transition economics

Or check out the

homepages of researchers

. An example of people working on transition

Some 'new' Subfields of Economics, based on Lazear, Edward (2000),

'Economic Imperialism'
 

Related

The literature search

  • Google (the best search engine of all, used by most economists)
  • Econlit (EERC network - look for WINSPIRS)!
  • Social Science Research Network (a database with working papers written by people from all over the world)
  • BibEc(a database with working papers written by people from all over the world. They are using 'Citeseer' on their database which means that you can see for more and more papers by which papers they are cited)
  • NBER (FULL TEXT papers of network of top-shot economists working in the US)
  • CEPR (papers of network of top-shot economists working in the Europe - FULL TEXT THROUGH EERC MOSCOW ELECTRONIC LIBRARY)
  • Science Direct The abstracts of articles published in Elsevier journals
  • the KSE library (for books)
  • jstor (the place to find FULL TEXT research published in a number of top journals)
  • jstor at GDN : the electronic library of GDN gives access to a large FULL TEXT JSTOR set of journals
  • EBSCO gives access to FULL-TEXT articles of several journals
  • KSE faculty (last resort! some faculty members might have access to other databases with published research)

Research Organizations often have their own webpages with their research

Ukrainian Economic Research Organizations 
 

Kyiv School of Economics

Some Economics Research Organizations in Russia 

 Top organizations

Other Russian research organizations

Economic Research Organizations in Eastern Europe 

 Stockholm School of Economics in Riga


Research organizations dealing with transition located elsewhere 

 Stockholm School of Economics


International research organizations 

 Worldbank


 The Search for Data: Data are everywhere!

Some illustrations:

Some data on Russian Economy

Writing papers

General: Swales, J. and Feak, C. (2001), 'Academic Writing for Graduate Students', University of Michigan Press. Specific for economics:

  • Donald McCloskey (1985), 'Economical Writing', Economic Inquiry, vol. 23, p.187-222. (I have copy)
  • Donald McCloskey (19xx), 'Economical Writing', book, (I will have copy)
  • Salant, W. (1969), 'Writing and Reading in Economics', Journal of Political Economy, vol. 77, nr. 4, p. 545-558 (in jstor).
  • Thomson, William (1999), 'The Young Person's Guide to Writing Economic Theory', Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 37, p. 157-183 (I have copy).
  • Chapter 1 of Thomson, William (2001), 'A Guide for the Young Economist', MIT Press (I have copy)
  • John Munro's Essay Instructions
  • Laband, .D and Taylor, C. (1992), 'The Impact of Bad Writing in Economics', Economic Inquiry, vol. 30, p. 673-688. + reaction of McCloskey!
  • 'So you want to write an economics paper' by Lawrence H. officer, and Judith and Daniel Saks. (I do not have a copy)

Also:

Presenting a paper

  • Chapter 2 of Thomson, William (2001), 'A Guide for the Young Economist', MIT Press (I have copy)
  • Notes on Presenting a Paper
  • Appendix 18 of Wyrick: 'Guidelines for Giving an Oral Report'


Getting comments

Some additional material

General

On the right use of econometrics

  • Griliches, Zvi (1985), 'Data and Econometricians - The Uneasy Alliance', American Economic Review, vol. 75, nr. 2, p. 196-200.
  • Leamer, Edward (1983), 'Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics', American Economic Review, vol. 73, nr. 1, p. 31-43.
  • Hendry, David (1980) 'Econometrics: Alchemy or Science?', Economica, 47(4), Number 188, November, pp. 387-406

A paper for beginning economists:

  • Leijonhufvud, Axel (1975), 'Life among the Econ', Western Economic Journal, p. 327-337.


Ukrainian State Agencies 
 National Bank

Ukrainian Law
 

International Agencies in Ukraine
 


 Some notes on the use of ECONLIT

1) Econlit includes abstracts but not by default. To include abstracts

  • go to options
  • select show options
  • choose field (left box): AB-Abstract
  • click on 'add'
  • click OK

Abstracts should appear!

Other information like JEL codes, affiliation of the authors and so can be added in a similar way.

2) Retype option: rather than retyping your search term, click on retype

 3) Beware: put 'and' between words, except if it's on term.

For example, compare 'transition economics' to 'transition and economics'

4) Specific searches.

You can limit searches to title, abstract, publication year, source or whatever.

  • Title: add 'in ti' to search term
    Compare 'transition economies in ti' (422 records) to 'transition economies' (956 records).
    The advantage: articles with the search term in the title should have search term as main subject. So it allows you to do a more focused search.
  • Journal Title : add 'in so' to search term (so stands for source )
  • Author : add 'in au' to search term, allows you to select only those papers written by a given author rather than also those that refer to the author.
  • JEL code: add 'in de' to search term (de stands for descriptor code )
  • Journal articles: add 'and journal in dt' to search term (dt stands for document type) to select only journal articles and exclude books and working papers
  • Publication year: add 'and py=1999' or 'and py>1995' if you want to limit your search to a particular period.

 

 
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