Guidelines for Presentations

Ten minutes is not very much time. You will only have time to present 3-4 major points very briefly. These points should define the question that the authors are trying to answer, summarize quickly the method they used to answer it, and summarize their results. Your job is the inform your classmates who haven't read the paper. What are the "take-away points" that they should know about the paper, both in terms of results and in terms of how the results were generated? I would recommend that you prepare a slideshow in Powerpoint (or equivalent software) that has no more than 5-6 slides: One introductory slide with an outline of your presentation, one that summarizes the method/data used, and some slides displaying a few key tables and graphs that highlight key features of the results, plus a conclusion slide at the end summarizing the take-away points and their relation to macroeconomics. You are strongly encouraged