PhD in Finance, research proposal. Topic: Essays on Corporate Governance and Corporate finance(3000 words)

35831The research proposal should address the following points in a systematic way:

1. Your name and title of your research proposal.
2. Short introduction and statement of the problem you want to investigate.
3. Main research questions and sub-questions.
4. Why is the research question an interesting problem to address? What is the main theoretical contribution of your research?
5. Short literature review: What have others written about this research question? What theory or theories inform your research questions? How will your research add to the existing body of knowledge?
6. Research plan: What are your key theoretical constructs? What methods will you use to answer your research questions? What is the dependent variable, if any? What are the explanatory variables? What kind of data do you need to answer your research questions? Be specific and indicate whether you have access to the data; if not indicate how you are going to get access to the data or collect the data.
7. Analysis plan: How are you going to analyse the data? What type of activities and/or analysis are you going to do and in which order? It may helpful to produce a list of tables and figures (in an appendix to the proposal) that you would be planning to use in your text later (only the list, NOT the tables).
8. What are the practical or policy implications of your research? (3000 words)

Content additional summary of the above:
1. What is the main research question for your research work? (Maximum 40 words)

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2. What are the main sub-questions for the research question? (Maximum 80 words)

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3. What are the main constructs and/or variables in your research? (Maximum 40 words)

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4. What kind of data will you need and how you are going to access the data or to collect them? If you plan to use more than one type of data, answer the question for each type of data. (Maximum 400 words)

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5. Provide a description of the steps in your research and your thesis. Number the steps and be as specific as possible (i.e.: ‘collecting data’ is too vague; you have to specify what data and how they will be collected). (Maximum 400 words)

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