Part V: Writing and Publishing Research

Part V turns the Post-Soviet replication experience into an original region-specific gravity paper. Students keep the workflow they learned in the replication: define a question, rebuild the data, describe the sample, estimate gravity models, run robustness checks, and write cautious policy interpretation.

The final course output is a reproducible Python notebook and a publication-style empirical paper. The paper should read like applied trade research, not like a collection of disconnected regressions.

Chp	Topic	Main Output
14	Paper writing	Publication-style manuscript plan
15	Final workshop	Submission package and revision plan

This part contributes to the final paper by helping students move from replication to independent research while preserving reproducibility, transparency, and careful interpretation.