Research paper: Tips
Getting started: Deciding on a topic can be the hardest step in completing a paper. You
might try the following procedures:
1. Look over your notes and readings. The book of readings edited by
Stern is especially useful.
2. Look at a few recent issues of the Journal of Economic Literature
(JEL). The JEL provides abstracts of articles published in all the major economic
journals. The abstracts are arranged by subject, and international economics is one of the
subject headings.
3. Talk to me about any research topic which interests you.
Topic areas from international trade, commercial policy, and factor migration, many from past papers:
| The 1992 movement The brain drain Foreign aid Leontief paradox Product cycle trade Cartels, such as OPEC VER's, such as autos Quotas, such as sugar Multi-Fiber Arrangement Trading blocs, such as EC Japan and MITI Generalized system of preferences (GSP) Trade adjustment assistance New International Economic Order (NIEO) Dutch disease Newly industrializing countries (NICs) Taxation of foreign income Illegal immigration ISI versus ELI development |
North American Free Trade Agreement Strategic sectors and new protectionism Economic sanctions Intra-industry trade Technology transfers, such as FS-X plane Political economy of protectionism International environmental issues ITC case studies Domestic content requirements Common Agricultural Policy of the EC Subsidies in trade Offshore assembly provisions Labor migration Dumping Industrial policy and trade Transnational corporations Former East-West trade Smuggling Intellectual property rights and trade strategies |