1.The term paper should have a table of content including page numbers. The table of content should be structured in a way that clearly shows what the authors train of thought will be. The headings in the table of content must be the same as the
headings in the main part.
2. The advised layout for the standard text is: Times New Roman 10pt; line spacing: 1,15 lines; fully justified; 2,5cm margin left and right. Footnotes should be at the
end of every page (Times 8pt ).
3.Graphs and tables are not self-explanatory. Make sure that the elements of a graph
or a table are explained in the text. Generally all graphs and tables have to be backed
with a source. If you have created or compiled graphic or table yourself, you should
label it with „Source: Own illustration/calculation based on …“.
4. Make sure that all used symbols, variables and abbreviations are clearly defined
in your term paper. Your term paper has to be understandable and well readable on
its own, without having to read the original literature.
Regarding the subject:
The term paper should focus mainly on the article: Berger, Melissa, Gerlinde Fellner-Röhling, Rupert Sausgruber and Christian Traxler (2016): “Higher taxes, more evasion? Evidence from border differentials in TV license fees”, Journal
of Public Economics, 135: 74-86. But you should also refer to article: Slemrod, Joel, Marsha Blumenthal, and Charles Christian (2001): “Taxpayer Response to
an Increased Probability of Audit: Evidence from a Controlled Experiment in Minnesota”,
Journal of Public Economics 79 (3): 429-453.
There are 2 options:
-Either you focus strongly on the paper :Higher taxes more evasion?Evidence from border differentials in TV license fees
Then, in your introduction, you motivate and raise the main research question that you want to answer, then sketch the approach to answer this question and the results (all based on your main paper), and shortly mention some of the open questions/arguments to discuss using the second paper.
In the next sections, you summarize/explain the content of your paper (setting, data, empirical approach, results). As I said earlier, this requires to choose the main steps and results and to leave out less important stuff. In your case, for example, you could spend some time on the empirical design: Why do the authors look at neighbor municipalities and/or use the RD approach? How is this implemented?
Then, you discuss the strengths and/or weaknesses of the paper in a separate section. There, you can e.g. explain how the results from your first and second paper differ, or how the second paper overcomes weaknesses of the first, or how the first paper builds on and extends what the second has done…
-Or you treat both papers more equally.
Then, in the introduction, you need to motivate and raise a research question that you can eventually answer based on both papers. And you explain the approaches and results of both papers, include a very short description of how these approaches/results differ.
In this case, you need to have separate sections in which you first summarize the first paper, then in the following section the second paper (again, covering the same steps as before).
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