No Author Title & objective Variables (what are the Method – how Findings - What did they find

ngs - What did they find Synthesis Notes – is it same

. of study – what elements being studied) do they test with other paper? What is
are they testing same/different? What is new
and why or what is important
1. example Absorptive Growth, Investment OLS cross- The data produce The study attempts to extend
capacity and sectional analysis Considerably different results, while previous studies in several
the effects of covering data on some data indicate that FDI has a respects.
J.
foreign direct - What dimension is the 62 non-OECD and positive effect on growth that is not importantly, the literature ignores
Benson 21 contingent key financial and institutional
Durham investment and paper looking at. IF it is
high-income on financial or institutional variables. aspects
2002 equity foreign looking at foreign countries the interaction term between FDI and of absorptive capacity. Also,
portfolio investment, is it looking at the male education rate produces a addenda include extensive
investment on investment laws? Company surveys??? negative and statistically insignificant sensitivity analyses with
Economic shares? Econometrics? interaction term, the effect of lagged respect to alternative data sources
growth FDI on growth, controlling for its and general speci5cations of
interaction with education rates, while economic
- The problems is positive, is not statistically significant. Growth.
when foreign the EFPI coefficients has a positive
investment effect on growth only for countries for
companies cannot which the ratio of stock market
capitalization to GDP is at least
absorb technology
approximately41.20
*(in your own percent
words, explain
what the paper is
about and what
are the issues
they are
addressing)

2. XXX This paper is similar/different to

paper No. 1 because …. However
it looks at a new dimension of
trade, etc etc..

(in your own words synthesize the

paper)
3.

4.

The importance of numbering your paper is to make reference with other papers when you read