- 1 – Stephen Martin EC 376 Economics of the European Union Fall 2017 Paper Guidelines The paper should be about a topic related to the economics of the European Union. Most papers will be between 10 and 20 pages long. A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education reports the case of a student so anxious about the requirement to write a 19-page paper – “longer than anything he’d ever written’’ – that he hired someone to write the paper for him. I mention this for two reasons. First, the fact that this episode is now discussed in the Chronicle may suggest to you that it did not end well for the student in question. You would be right about that. Do not place yourself in a similar situation. Second, thanks to this course, you will never again need to be anxious about writing a term paper (or, once you leave the hallowed halls of learning, a report for your place of employment). Citations and references Material that you refer to or quote in the text of the paper should be cited in the text with author(s) and date of publication, for example … Banerjee and Martin (2015) develop a model of Food and Drug Administration testing procedures… or Günster and Martin (2015, p. 14) conclude that “Events in the European alum market at the end of the fifteenth and start of the sixteenth century show that both collusion and strategic conduct by dominant firms to raise entry cost have a history that predates the industrial revolution.” Exact quotations must be enclosed in quotation marks. Sources cited in the text of the paper must be included in a list of references at the end of the paper. The two sources cited above would appear in the list of references as Banerjee, T. and S. Martin (2015). “Pharmaceutical regulation and innovative performance: a decision-theoretic model.” Managerial and Decision Economics, vol. 36(3):177-190. Guenster, A. and S. Martin (2015). “A Holy Alliance: Collusion in the Renaissance Europe Alum Market.” Review of Industrial Organization, vol. 47(1):1-23. References should be in alphabetical order by the last name of the author (or the last name of the first author, if there is more than one author). – 2 – If you rely on an unpublished source that you have accessed through the internet, you should include author, date, and title, as in the two previous examples, and a URL that links to the source, for example Zitzewitz, E. (2006). “How Widespread Was Late Trading in Mutual Funds?” http://facultygsb.stanford.edu/zitzewitz. For further information on citation practices, see http://minerva.union.edu/motahare/Thesis/howtocite.pdf or https://www.aeaweb.org/journals/policies/sample-references. Wikipedia: items in Wikipedia often include a list of references that may be useful as you begin your research. References must include the name of the author. Wikipedia articles themselves, which are anonymous, are not acceptable references for your work. Footnotes Footnotes should not be used for citations, which, as noted above, should appear in the text. Footnotes may be used for remarks that elaborate on a discussion in the text.1 Footnotes should be numbered consecutively throughout the paper, and should appear at the bottom of the page. Do not use endnotes. Links that may be useful European Union: https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en European Commission: https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/institutionsbodies/european-commission_en University of Leiden European Union History web site: https://www.student.universiteitleiden.nl/en/study–studying/study/educationalinformation/books-and-study-materials/humanities/european-union-studiesma?cf=university&cd=guest#tab-3 1 The use of footnotes should be minimized. If something is important enough for you to say, most likely it belongs in the text of the paper. If something is not important enough to be included in the text of the paper, consider if it is important enough to say at all.
