1. Title page: On the title page you should include the title of the report, your name and the section of this class.
2. Introduction: you should explain the purpose of your paper to motivate the reader about the importance of the issue at hand.
3. Framework or Review of Literature: if your paper is academic, you should have a short review of literature, citing previous researchers’ work on this topic. If your empirical paper is more business-oriented, you should explain the framework for your business or industry and how this empirical research could help in the decision-making process.
4. Data: explain the source of your data. You can also show a couple of graphs, some general descriptive statistics, etc. The idea is to give the reader a good idea of how your data looks like. Please, do not list your data set.
5. Empirical model: explain the regression equation you are going to use and the methodology to follow. You should make sure to include all the variables that are necessary and to support the inclusion of some variables in your equation.
6. Results: run the regression, show the results, perform all the diagnostic tests, and then, interpret the results.
7. Conclusions: short conclusion with the main results of your empirical work.
8. References: list all the other works that you used as references in your paper.
9. Appendixes: if needed.