This lecture is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding to students to the study of econometrics. It is structured such that students are stimulated to think about estimation approaches and methodological issues starting from the actual nature of the data they confront with. The scope of this approach is twofold. First, to make students familiar with the theoretical aspects associated with each estimation approach, second to make students able to apply such methods to real data and identify the best estimation approach for the specific research question(s) they want to address. To this scope, each class is paired with a practical session in which students will get familiar with applications of the revised methodologies and put their hands on the data.
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Systematic reviews use robust methods to identify and examine existing research reports on a given topic and to produce accessible, reliable and useful syntheses or maps of research, for academic, policy or practice audiences. Students will learn the principles underlying all systematic reviews, and the ways that they vary – from different types of research question through to methods for synthesising both quantitative and qualitative findings. Students will apply tools that aid review production and apply methods to formulate review questions, identify research, classify and appraise studies, and plan syntheses of findings. They will apply their learning so as to critically appraise existing review reports and to formulate their own literature review paper in a comprehensive and scientific way. This will allow them to publish their results in a highly regarded business journal. It will also provide them with the research gaps that exist in their area of research and, hence, with the research stream for which to further focus in their empirical study.
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