Econ/Cmps/Bio 272/166B /176B Winter 2017

Econ/Cmps/Bio 272/166B /176B Winter 2017

UCSC Dan Friedman and Barry Sinervo

Term Project Guidelines

Week 1: pitch ideas

Week 2: form groups

Week 3: turn in prospectus

Week 5: turn in 4-8 page progress report

Week 7: turn in 8-15 page rough draft

Week 9: turn in complete draft

Week 10: Present project to class.

Finals week: turn in polished term paper.

A prospectus writes out a researchable question, includes a background paragraph, and a plan of attack, plus a partial bibliography.A progress report fleshes out the idea and includes preliminary results. Don’t worry too much yet about writing style; the main point is to get feedback on content.

The complete draft will represent approximately 10% of your overall grade, so make it as good as you can in the time you have. Again, you will receive feedback on what will most improve the final product, in terms of style as well as content.

Oral presentations during the last week of class represent approximately 15% of your overall grade. Most teams will use Beamer or Powerpoint, and will take 20-40 minutes, depending on the size of the team. The schedule will be posted on the class website.

The final written version of the term project represents approximately 25% of the overall grade. Please deliver two hard copies to the professor that you worked with most closely on your project by noon Tuesday, March 17. You are also encouraged to email an electronic version of the paper and the presentation slides at the same time.

Please use a standard academic format, e.g., as below. Of course, you are expected to properly document your sources and never to plagiarize. Example format guidelines:
Title. The title should be concise and informative. Avoid abbreviations and formulae.
Authors. List them in alphabetical order.
Abstract. The abstract must be a single paragraph that summarizes the main findings of the paper in less than 150 words. A concise abstract should briefly state the purpose of the research and the main results. An abstract is often presented separate from the article, so it must be able to stand alone.

Footnotes. In text, footnotes should be avoided if at all possible. If they must be used, identify them by superscript Arabic numerals in order of their appearance.
References. References should be cited in the text by the author's surname and date of publication. The text citations can be given in the form "As Kohlberg and Mertens (1986) showed..." or "As already shown (Milgrom, 1986; Harsanyi and Selten, 1988)...." Where there are more than two authors, use the first author's surname followed by et al.: "In Ferejohn et al. (1987) it was...." List references in alphabetical order. Unpublished results or personal communications should be cited as such in the text. Please style references according to the following examples:
Kreps, D., Sobel, J., 1994. Signalling. In: Aumann, R., Hart, S. (Eds.), Handbook of Game Theory. Elsevier,

Amsterdam/New York, pp. 281-304.
Morgan, J., Sefton, M., 2002. An experimental investigation of unprofitable games. Games Econ. Behav. 40, 123-146. Owen, G., 1995. Game Theory. Academic Press, San Diego.