Any specific topic in regards to financial markets and institutions.
The paper should be well written and proper end notes and bibliography are required. As a general guideline, the paper should be approximately TEN pages long, typed (1.5 spacing Font size 11 and excluding references and appendices).
You should choose a very spe¬cific topic and do in depth research in that topic. Analytical and Quantitative/ Computer analysis will be amply rewarded.

SOURCES: 1. Wall Street Journal 2. Business Week 3. Fortune 4. Forbes 5. The Economist 6. Financial Times 7. International Finance Corporation’s publications. 8. Numerous Online publications 9. Numerous Academic Publications 10. The Banker 11. Annual Reports. 20. IMF/World Bank publications.

ON Line Data Bases: Data-stream, Bloomberg, Yahoo; Internet www.scholar.google.com

GRADING CRITERIA FOR THE RESEARCH PROJECT:

• Originality of the Topic and uniqueness of the Problem: 25%
(Define the topic and problem to be as narrow and specific as possible; For example, ‘Development of Mobile Banking in Thailand during the last 2 years’)
• Relevant Research 25%
[Identify and use at least 10 latest articles, information sites etc. which are relevant]
• Financial and Quantitative Analysis 25%
[This is a finance course; hence Financial Analysis of the problem is needed. Avoid all descriptions, definitions, history etc. Use publically available Balance Sheet, Trade Data etc.]
• Presentation 25%
[The paper has to be in your own words. Well written; No cut and paste job, from the Internet or wherever please. Whenever you are citing other works, provide citation].