A paper on a macroeconomic topic is required for this course. As per your Course Outline, you are required to submit a written assignment (course paper) for this course.

The written assignment is worth 25% of your course grade. Your course paper must be on one of the following three macroeconomic topics:

The Great Recession of 2008 – Causes and Consequences An Analysis of the Housing Market Crash Leading to the Great Recession of 2008 U.S. Tax Structure – Is it designed to help the poor? Once you have selected a topic, be sure to conduct a thorough Review of Literature on the subject.

The minimum length of your course paper is 10 pages, double-spaced without the title page and the page on references. There is no upper page limit for your paper. Additional guidance will be provided during the first week of the course.

Organize your paper with five sections: Introduction and objective. Make sure the objective is specific. Literature Review.

Conduct a search on the topic of your paper and summarize works of others similar to what you are writing on. Analysis:

Analyze your topic with reference to the objective. Summary and conclusion. References. Provide at least five references, at least two of which must be scholarly books and /or journals. You are welcome to send your topic and the objective of your paper to your instructor by the end of the first week so that she/he may provide additional guidance.

Notes Refereed papers are academic papers that were criticized and reviewed by experts before being published. To find the academic articles that you need for your paper (at least one), go to the following full text databases in our library: Business Source Premier (EBSCO), Emerald Management Xtra, LexisNexis Academic, ProQuest Databases and ProQuestDissertations and Thesis.

Databases have different sources or information, and you always have to combine them. Economists would say that databases are complements rather than substitutes, in other words, try more than one database. Short papers are nice pieces of art. Y

our paper will be evaluated not in terms of right/wrong but on rational coherence and quality of the argument.

If any plagiarism is found in the paper, the grade will be automatically zero.

However, it may escalate to a more severe penalization. Consult NU Catalog regarding policies abput dishonesty and penalty.