Tips

Tips:

1.20-30min

2. contents

a.Related literature

While your presentation should focus on one paper, you should give a good overview of the research field and the related literature. Therefore, you will clearly have to read a number of papers to explain your paper well. This includes papers that your paper builds upon, but also papers that build upon the paper you present. In other words, what was the impact of your paper on subsequent research? You should also include a reference list of related papers at the end of your presentation slides. Make sure your reference list is accurate, free of typos, and consistent in style.

b. The paper’s research question

What is the objective of your paper? How is it relevant for managers and/or investors and/or researchers and/or policy makers? You should also provide a credible discussion of why you believe the paper is relevant for these constituencies (or why it is more important for some, and less for others: Hardly any paper will be equally relevant for all of them).

c.The paper’s main findings

Papers generally involve a number of results. Some are crucial, some are only accessory (e.g. robustness checks of empirical analysis, or more complicated mathematical models that aim to show that a certain change in the model would not alter results). A good presentation will be able to point out the crucial findings, spell out why they are crucial, and focus on them, avoiding getting lost in details. Make sure you communicate the crucial findings and why they are interesting early so that your audience becomes motivated to listen to you.

d. Methodology

Papers in finance and economics can usually be classified as theory papers or as empirical papers; and some (often very good) papers make empirical and theoretical contributions. Theory papers nowadays usually employ mathematical models, and empirical papers employ econometric tools. If your paper is mostly empirical, shed light on the following questions. Are the data...