Finance Literature Review

General Instructions:

Academic papers chosen must be either published in an academic journal or posted and distributed on SSRN.

All academic papers used in an assignment must be cited.

No academic paper may be used for more than one assignment, i.e. different academic papers must be used for each assignment/activity.

Academic papers should be chosen based on your research area of interest and come from a diverse set of journal outlets. Moreover, for each paper chosen a pdf copy of the article needs to be saved within your research materials for use later in the program.

If Generative AI is used, both the source (BARD, ChatGPT) and the prompt (the set of commands fed to the source) must be cited.

Assignment/Activity #3

1. Choose a topic/concept that is covered within the course and conduct a literature review of the topic/concept since its inception.

2. Draft an abridged literature review that describes the evolution of the topic/concept to the present.

Your literature needs to include:

a. A citation of the topic/concept origin.

b. At least four separate examples of how the topic/concept either:

i. Evolved over time,

ii. Shaped future research,

iii. Was applied/used in new ways.

c. Choose single current (last two years) paper related to the topic/concept that you find particularly insightful.

i. Provide the citation.

ii. Explain the paper in brief.

iii. Explain why you find the paper so insightful.

3. Provide a brief reflection on what you found interesting about how knowledge creation evolves through time.