Research Methods in International Trade
- Credits: 5
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 2P + 2C
- Semester: winter
- Year: 3
- Faculty of Commerce
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Included in study programs
Teaching results
Students will acquire knowledge foremost in the following:
- A structure of a final thesis in economics with special focus on international trade, and standards for the content of the thesis parts,
- Principles how to elaborate a final thesis in the field of international trade,
- Handling scientific literature and composition of structural literature reviews,
- Decision on research design and interpretation of research results.
Students will obtain following skills:
- To utilize acquired knowledge in the process of own final thesis elaboration,
- To critically assess scientific articles,
- To read scientific articles efficiently,
- To conduct basic statistical operations in MS Excel.
Students will gain following competences:
- To present own research results in front of expert community,
- To refute or support a scientific notion within a team discussion,
- To chair an expert discussion within a team.
Indicative content
The content of the course follows a standard structure of a final thesis and covers an introduction, identifying a research question, selection of variables and compilation of a data set, methodological grasp of the research question quantitatively or qualitatively, discussion of the results, concluding remarks. Students get acquainted with the content of individual parts of a scientific article (introduction, abstract, literature review, goals, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion) by studying and analyzing articles from leading international scientific journals and critically evaluation of selected examples.
Support literature
1. PUŠKÁROVÁ, Paula. Elementárium ekonomického výskumu. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM. 101 s. 2019. ISBN 978-80-225-4647-8.
2. BELL, Emma – BRYMAN, Alan - HARLEY, Bill. Business Research Methods. Oxford University Press. 696 p. 2022. ISBN 9780198869443.
3. PUŠKÁROVÁ, Paula. Trust or bust: Growth effects of knowledge, human and social capital revisited. Economic Systems, 46(4). 2022. 101036.
4. SZABÓ, Jakub – PUŠKÁROVÁ, Paula – ČERNOTA, Mikuláš. Governance of Social Tipping Points : Resilience of the European Union’s Periphery vis-à-vis Migration, Climate Change and War. 1st Edition. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland. 156 p. 2023. ISBN 978-3-031-47413-2.
5. PUŠKÁROVÁ, Paula – GEMENNE, F. – CSÉFALVAYOVÁ, Katarína. Asylum regimes are more than norms and policies: How actors and welfare services shape asylum across Europe. Comparative Migration Studies, revision submitted. 2024.
Syllabus
1. Basics of research design: introduction, legal requirements for final theses at the EUBA and in the Slovak Republic 2. Empirical and non-empirical research 3. Sources of scientific literature, creation of literature reviews 4. Citations, ethics in publishing 5. Attributes of research questions, creation of research questions 6. Hypotheses, concepts and variables 7. Qualitative research design / case study 8. Qualitative research design / comparative study, text analysis, QDA Miner 9. Quantitative research design / work with databases in MS Excel 10. Quantitative research design / descriptive statistics 11. Interpretation of scientific results 12. Discussion on the interpretation of scientific results, limits of research, conclusions 13. Promotion of scientific outputs, creation of presentations
Requirements to complete the course
20 % mid-term written exam
20 % final paper
60 % final exam
Student workload
Total: study load 5 credits x 26 h = 130 hours
Separate study load for individual educational activities:
Attending lectures: 26 hours
Attending seminars: 26 hours
Preparation of a final paper: 13 hours
Preparation for the written mid-term exam: 13 hours
Preparation for the final exam: 52 hours
Language whose command is required to complete the course
Slovak, English
Date of approval: 09.02.2023
Date of the latest change: 05.03.2024