Semester page for ECON4120 - Spring 2017

(Reposted with a third): 2014-autumn and 2016-spring and autumn have been updated last week to correct typos. If you have done those, then you may want to reload. Annotations in typewriter font.
The optimist view is that more people seem to do the problems this semester, and discover even typos in intermediate calculations even when the answer was stated correctly. - Nils

Some of you requested the solution that was handed out.  Here. 
Nils

We will have three hours, but the timetable is not updated to reflect that - I do not have write access. - Nils

You will find the result in Fronter.

Do you have any questions? Contact the Department of Economics.

I realize that this question has not (yet) been covered, my bad. Consider what happens to the integral from 0 to T as T tends to infinity. 

I (Nils) will cover this week's seminars, as Matteo is attending a conference. I hope to carry out the suggestion of focusing on the spring 2010 exam tomorrow Wednesday and the spring 2013 exam on Thursday. I assume there is room for those who want to attend both seminars. 

The lecture schedule will stay as-is for this week, but may be updated for next week: possibly we could go through the term paper on Friday 28th. The last lecture on the schedule is the last "ordinary" lecture, and will have curriculum; the review could be an extra then.

And, those who had to submit term papers right before Easter can check Fronter.

I suppose no-one needs this? - Nils

You will find the result in Fronter. If your paper is approved you are not going to hand in a new paper.

If your paper is not approved you have gotten an e-mail to your UiO-email at 30. March 2017 with information regarding the second attempt.

If you have questions, please contact the Department of Economics at post@econ.uio.no.

Particular remarks to those of you who did not get it approved:

• The "problem set" for the revision is precisely the same. You are required to submit a revised paper. (Submit a revised paper, not just a "patch".)
• Deadline: see previous message.
• Please take note of the following "submission-technical" remarks when resubmitting.

Submission-technical remarks:

• Some of you submitted multiple files rather than one single file.
  • For future submissions, this course or other courses:
    Please compile to a single PDF. 
  • The graders did assess your entire submission, despite only one file being ticked off as passed or failed. 
    For comments, look at that file which is ticked off. There should be comments on that one. (Most comments are in text, although at least one of them was for technical reasons commented in...

April 6th at 1500, for those who did not get the first attempt approved.
That is, Thursday in 8 days. The problem set is the same. You shall submit a new file with answers to every question (not only "these are the missing parts").

I will shortly post a few more comments. - Nils

Transposes not covered yet, so one problem (5) removed from the seminar problem set and one filled in. - Nils

the below. More will be announced, but it depends a bit on what Ola manages to cover on Friday. Therefore, keep an eye on the seminar problems document for possible changes even after Friday's lecture!

The following should be in, though:

• Exam spring 2014 problem 2
• Exam spring 2014 problem 4
• The following "preliminary" is in Norwegian but should be doable with Google translate (if not, send a mail to Nils). Consider this midterm exam in MAT1001. For each of the problems 1 through 5 on page 2, take a stand on whether we by Ola's Friday lecture have covered enough to be able to solve it - and, if applicable, whether you should be able to solve it even before starting on Mathematics 2.
• English EMEA: 15.7.8, 15.8.4, 15.4.6 
  Norsk: LA: 2.2.4, 2.3.3, 3.3.6 

I (Nils) have had a couple of questions concerning (the corrected) problem 2(a) part i). The first bullet point uses only the first property! The second bullet point uses the rest.

Furthermore, for the "could be demanding" problem 3(d), opinions seem to differ as to whether it is the first (show that an inverse exists) or the second (find its derivative) that is hardest. If you have issues with one of them, try the other.

And when it comes to problen 1(e): as I said in a lecture, we expect lots of "partial" answers on this one. The intuition is easy, but formulating what you "know" - and in a way where the "second zero" yields a contradiction - could be quite a job to do properly. 

Due to a department seminar, I will be out of office until 1330. (You do not tax my consultation hours heavily anyway, do you?)  - Nils

The term paper problem set has been updated to correct an error.

The change is problem 2(a). The error was due to a last-minute change made in order to simplify - and then I (Nils) simplified away the truth value of it. If 2(a)i) does not have two bullet points, you need to reload.

If you want to compare with the old version, replace "ferdig-v17.pdf" in the URL by "ferdig-oblig-3120+4120-v17.pdf". (I do not want to link to it - there one with a link is the correct one, period.)

My apologies for the inconvenience.