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Assignment 1: The items that should included in your Assignment are given below:

1) Choose a hot/concurrent research topic or field of study in which you have interests in the area of Finance and/or Economics.

2) Your assignment 1 must complete 3 sections of a scientific peer-reviewed research paper. These include:

a) Introduction (Main section)

A brief description of why you have chosen the field of study. The importance of the study. The description of each of the major words in the title of your research.

The subsections of the Introduction section will be.

i) identifying the research gap that exists in the extant literature (to find the research gap, you need to review the existing/published research papers from renowned databases like Web of Science, Since Direct, Scopus, Ebsco host, Emerald, Sage Publication, etc.)

ii) forming hypotheses (Null and Alternative Hypotheses)

iii) Objective(s) of the research.

iv) a brief of what you will be doing in other sections.

3) Literature Review:

How to do it was explained during the class discussion of week 5. If you miss it, get the whole information from your friend who attended the class)

4) Theoretical Framework: construction of model/Model development that you will be using to show the relationship between variables.

What variables you are considering to obtain your objective of research?

You need to provide justification to consider those variables (using citations from existing literature) that will be able to attain your objectives. Using those variables, construct a model.