Semester page for ECON5160 - Spring 2009

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You have already received this by e-mail, but a few last-minute messages:

The exam problem set will be available on this website Friday at 1400. The administration has not prepared paper copies.
A hand-written solution is OK (don't waste time typesetting). You will however be expected to hand in two copies, so make sure a photocopy is readable.
Your solutions should bear your student numbers. Look it up in studentweb. Your name should not appear on them.
For home exams, there are citation rules (please read them). As far as I can see, the only source you might not have a thorough citation for, is the copies handed out for the extreme value theory part. They are from Embrechts, Paul; Kl��ppelberg, Claudia; Mikosch, Thomas: "Modelling Extremal Events", Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1997. ISBN: 3-540-60931-8

June 3, 2009 11:35 AM

Various exam related information:

The grading is only pass/fail. (E is a pass, except for the PhD version.)
A note on the core theory is now available.
Note however that we have decided against a 'clear cut mathematical' exam -- you might need to consider a text-based problem and pose a model. See the note.
We have decided against any exam problems which will involve your numerical work from the term paper. You will not be asked to do any coding.

Furthermore:

The note on the term paper problems is now updated.
A link to the 'information concepts' note was lost, and is put up; I was a bit ambiguous towards doing so, because I did not see it as too important to the course in the first place, and even less now. Read it if you think it helps you.

May 20, 2009 4:33 PM

Seminar Wednesday 13th at 1415, room 1220 Topic: the term paper problem (but feel free to ask other questions).

May 11, 2009 3:01 PM

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