Tópicos de Macroeconomia (2 º Sem 2016/2017)

Sessions: Wednesday, 18:00-20:00h, room Staples (Quelhas Building)

The presentation of the articles must have the following features:

 1. To be based upon the projection of overheads that are known as the presentation file (e.g. PowerPoint, Beamer);

 2. To have the maximum duration of 30 minutes;

 3. To have the following structure:

• article topic;
• relevant-literature framework;
• the basic research question and the answer to it;
• describing the basic model and its working;
• main results;
• conclusions.

 4. The contribution to the strand of literature and recent developments.

  Signing up deadline: 26 April 2017. Send e-mail message to aafonso@iseg.ulisboa.pt. The students should coordinate among themselves to choose the papers and the respective discussants.

  Deadline for sending the presentation file: via e-mail to aafonso@iseg.ulisboa.pt up to the end of the preceding Friday in PDF format. Additionally, the file should be sent to the discussant student.

The discussion of the articles must have the following features:

 1. To be based upon the presentation file produced by the presenter and made available at least 4 days in advance;

 2. To have the maximum duration of 15 minutes;

 3. To have the following structure:

• brief abstract of the paper contents;
• agreement points with the presenter;
• disagreement points with the presenter;
• the contribution to the strand of literature.