Professional Project

Catalog description

Provides direct supervision of the research that constitutes the core of the professional project. Students may identify a unique research question or select a published empirical finance study to partially replicate and then draft various sections of their project until completion. The sections of the proposal (1-credit component) are: literature review, hypotheses discussion, and specification of the empirical model. The sections of the final project (2-credit component) are: literature review, hypotheses discussion, specification of the empirical model, creation of the necessary dataset, and execution of the empirical model. The final output is a complete paper that meets the project director's approval and an oral presentation of the project. S/U grade assessment.