Econ444: Bunting
Term Paper Topics
TOPICS IN MONEY AND BANKING (20%): Review and research some topic. What are the important issues, causes and effects? what are policy responses? Develop research into an 8 to 12 page paper, prepared in good form.
Basic Rules: Substance > Form; paper should show thought, energy and effort.

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Paper method: Introduction: Topic, focus on some research question or problem: what is it, what caused it, why? Body: Detail the problem or topic; discuss actual and potential solutions, explanations or important aspects; examples; data. Conclusion: Findings, your views
Mechanics: No footnotes; cite (Jones, p 34) to establish authority for a fact or opinion.
Collect citations on Reference page (counts as text page); proper reference form: using the citation can it be found? Papers should be typed; double spaced; normal margins (1inch all around); number pages; 12 font-Arial or times roman
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Textbook topics
https://www.google.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/
Some sources:
Fed in Print: http://www.fedinprint.org/
Economics Search Engine: http://ese.rfe.org/
http://www.federalreserveonline.org/
http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/
http://macroblog.typepad.com/
http://www.rtable.net/index/rt/economics/recent/
http://www.voxeu.org/pages/about-vox
www.CEPR.org
Potential Topics:
1. Student loans: should students borrow, should banks lend?
2. Why Does Off Shore Banking Exist?

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3. Are Bitcoins Money?
4. Are Large Banks Too Big To Fail or Too Big To Manage?
5. How Bernie Madoff Ran His Ponzi Scheme and Why He is In Jail
6. Prohibit Payday Lending?
7. Are Credit Unions Banks?
8. How Can I Get a Job at a Bank?
9. Why Worry about Shadow Banking and Hedge Funds?
10. What Caused the Panic of 1907 (or 1890 or 1873 or 1867)?
11. What Caused the Bank Wars of 1830s
12. Why Was the Glass Stegall Act Passed and Then Repealed?
13. Causes of the Savings and Loan collapse of the 1980s
14. What Was Long Capital Management and How Did it Fail?
15. Is the Community Reinvestment Act A Good Idea?
16. Why Was Federal Reserve System Established?
17. Do we need paper money? (dollars, super money, counterfeiting)
18. Hyperinflation: pick a country- Zimbabwe, Germany, Venezuela, Argentine
19. Why Worry about Deflation?
20. Are Required Reserves Necessary?
21. Did the rating agencies cause the Financial Crisis?
22. Why do Cocaine Dealers get 20 years while Bankers Go to Boca Rotan?
23. Are Banks Too Big?
24. Why Did Sterling Financial Fail?
25. Were Bank Bailouts a Good Idea?
26. Is Consumer Debt A Problem?
27. Why Has Saving Declined?
28. Why Did the Financial Crisis Miss Canadian Banks?
29. Why Has Japan stagnated?
30. What happened to the Asian Tigers?

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