Semester page for ECON4120 - Autumn 2017

• Remember: justification is the main part. You cannot just fill in the conclusion.
• Remember that you are allowed to bring all books, notes, and other written or printed matter with you, and pocket calculators too. (Batteries are your responsibility!)
  • But you are not permitted to submit anything readymade.
    You must write everything on the papers handed out. (And not on the questions sheet!)
• The exam is not the right time to save paper - you would want to write so clearly and legibly that we can read what you are doing (which is necessary to get credit).
  • Want to delete something? Strike it out - you cannot use an eraser! You are supposed to use ink (blue or black).
    For students new at UiO: it is "carbon paper" that produces two blueprints in addition to the top layer. Two handed in, one retained by you. (And so erasing would make lots of illegible mess.)

And if you think...

So it was even more unfinished. Even more to do. 

I see that the version posted a week ago, missed a "/" in 2(b): somewhere therein, a "1/t" was only "1t", and that does make enough difference to update. 

Message from a week ago:

It was pointed out to me a "new" kind of error: in the solution note for spring 2017, not even the questions of problem 3 were right. The reason was that the "final" version was deleted by mistake (my bad, of course) and what you saw was the most recent that was still left. I have reconstructed and re-uploaded; see disclaimer page 1, and note that in addition there is a correction in problem 2 as well. 

I got a question on one of the examples in the note. It could have been worded better yes; hopefully the new version does that. No substantial change intended. - Nils

Sign corrected (unnoticed until now, it was the sign of something that in the end becomes zero) - and the previously indicated correction actually carried out this time, hopefully completely.
Correction uploaded. Thanks to one of you. - Nils

As per the message 23rd of October, those who submitted a 2nd time had all gotten approved.
The message posted Wednesday (which this supersedes) was due to one missing entry in Fronter. There is one person whose feedback was lost. (Human error, not checking that it was saved.)

Consequence: one person who resubmitted, would not have found any other confirmation of approval except the October 23rd message - and still the comment box is empty, as that text was lost. To that person: If you want more detailed feedback, you can contact me (Nils) and I'll have another look at it.

For other questions: Contact the Department of Economics.

Ola is likely to finish a bit early, and possibly the best use for the last lecture is to focus on the exam. 
One suggestion could be to cover one more exam problem set and exam-related review (like: how much are you supposed to write, or "course in a nutshell" or topics by request).
In order to give you time to solve one more exam, it should be after the last ordinary seminar. The November 27th time slot looks good.

So:

• Ola will discuss this suggestion with you on Thursday in order to avoid any time clashes;
• Probably, we will cover the last ordinary exam (now uploaded).
• The schedule will be updated when everything is decided.

Nils

There will be a lecture on Friday November 3th. Check the schedule for details.

Due to a misunderstanding, there will be no lecture today. A new date for a make up lecture will be announced tomorrow.

So I (Nils) put the Leibniz rule into the lecture schedule and forgot to notify Ola - who covered it yesterday. A note is uploaded now (and revised half an hour later - if you loaded it before 0830, then please reload). The lecture schedule will be updated.
Apologies for the glitch here.

Seminar problems updated too. 

At yesterday's workshop, we covered problem 2(=28) and then the rest very roughly.
About ten of you were present at the workshop, and I've had remarks that the timeslot is inconvenient. 

Question: is there need for more review?  If so, please let Ola know. 
- Nils

So we will use part of Thursday's workshop - say, from 1700 - to review the term paper problem set, starting at Problem 2 = Compendium problem 28.  No chance to cover the entire problem set, but we hope to find space for a second review session.

Sorry for the short notice, but it suddenly appeared to be a feasible solution. - Nils

The papers that were resubmitted by today's deadline have all been approved, though not all of you are overly risk-averse ... 

We are looking into scheduling a lecture reviewing the problem set. Watch this space.

And, seminar problems for next week to be posted tomorrow.

Updated with confirmed deadline and set (the boldfaced part).

Term papers: the pass/fail part:

• You should find (in Fronter) whether your term paper was approved
• Those who did not get it approved, will have a resubmission deadline next Monday the 23rd at 1400. There are no changes to the problem set (i.e., you have the same problem set to solve; you can re-use (better) parts of your first attempt, but you should upload a complete paper with answers to everything). 
• If you do not see a decision on your paper, please contact the administration.

The feedback part:

• Attached to your papers, you should see shortform comments on what you did well and not so well.
• If that is missing, you can send me (Nils) an e-mail. 
• You should be cautious and not too over-optimistic when you interpret the comments:...

• Ola is at least not behind schedule, and Monday's lecture may start on Thursday's topics.
• We hope to get your term papers done quickly. You will get shortform comments on what you did better and what you did worse - except, those of you who did not even attempt enough of the set to get it approved, will not get much (if any) feedback.
• When all your results are published in Fronter, there will be announced a deadline for a last chance for those who did not get approved - and you will only get a few days. 

Nils