ECO 4060 GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINAR


Coordinators Michael Baker  and Joanne Roberts


Announcements

 

  1. Please check the schedule linked below to confirm your presentation/discussion dates.  Dates are subject to change so you should be prepared to present your paper anytime after the second class.
  2. It is your sole responsibility to provide copies of the paper to your discussants.  They should receive at least a preliminary version of your paper no later than one month in advance of your presentation. 
  3. Please post a copy of your paper 2 weeks prior to your talk (this would be a good time to set up a personal website if you have not already done so). You can also update the paper you have posted if you make revisions. Your paper should be posted in pdf format only (see below on tips for producing pdf documents). To download a free pdf reader, click on the following link for the Adobe website and follow the instructions for downloading Acrobat Reader.
  4. Please see the course outline (linked below) for specific requirements and deadlines.
  5. When you present, it is your responsibility to pick up the computer projector from Shannon (and to return it after your talk), and to arrange for use of a laptop (you can borrow one from us if you make arrangements in advance) and to have these resources set up before the seminar starts.

 

 

Schedule and Papers 2006-2007

Papers should be posted two weeks prior to the seminar.  Send us an email with the URL for the paper and we’ll make the link.

 

 Course Outline (requirements and deadlines)

 

The Benjamin 2004 Memo on the second-year paper requirement, deadlines and consequences

 

Second year student schedule 

 

Second year Paper Agreement

 

 

Course Links

 

1.      Links to 2005-2006 papers

2.      Links to 2004-2005 papers

3.      Links to 2003-2004 papers

4.      Locate faculty in your area of interest

5.      Tips for Seminar Participants

6.      Tips for Second Year Paper Authors

7.      Tips for Seminar Presenters

8.      Tips for Laptop presentations (by Winnie Chan)    

9.      Tips for Discussants

10.  What’s expected in your literature review presentation?

11.  What’s expected in your paper proposal?

12.  Tabulation of Offers from Job Openings in Economics (from Cawley 2003); see also Survey of Mkt for New PhDs

 

Related Links

 

13.  Writing Resources at UofT

14.  Tips for SSHRC and OGS Grant Applicants

15.  SGS Brochure on Graduate Supervision Guidelines

16.  Improving your English communication skills 

17.  Seven deadly speaking sins 

18.  John Cochrane's Phd paper writing tips 


(via JSTOR)

19.  Dan Hammermesh, ``TheYoung Economist's Guide to Professional Etiquette’’ JEP (Winter 1992): 169-179

20.  Dan Hammermesh, ``Professional Etiquette for the Mature Economist’’ AER (May 1993):34-38