1. Please proofread your document carefully before you submit it. Silly errors should be absent from this submission.
2. On many of the first drafts I suggested changing the order of the presentation. You need to assure that with your new arrangement there is still a nice flow from one paragraph to the next. If you see now way out of having a break in the discussion, put in a new section header to signify the change in topic.
3. Along with your second draft, you should submit a document with my comments and your discussion of how you responded to them. Each comment by me should be followed with a couple of sentences by you on how you disposed of it. This will greatly assist in my reading of your drafts.
4. If your paper is reasonable, I will simply send you an Okay email, which means you can proceed to the last stage of the project - your elevator speech qua PowerPoint presentation. If your paper is not quite up to snuff, I will insist you make some more changes to it before you proceed to the last stage.
5. If you would like to discuss you paper with me outside of class, I would be happy to meet you for that purpose.
Monday, November 30, 2015
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Grades have been uploaded into Moodle
Sorry that this took me quite a long time. But it is there now. Please note the following.
1. The exam questions were each worth 40 points. So the maximum possible score was 120. (On the test itself, it said each question was worth 50 point. That was a mistake based on last year's exam.)
2. The average score was about 84%, which is not bad. So unlike the first midterm, I didn't give any further points to pad the score.
3. Note that on the Excel homework, there are actually 9 of these. So you get 10 free points, which is what is in the item labeled bonus.
4. You can see the class grade distribution in a file labeled Midterm 2 Results.
1. The exam questions were each worth 40 points. So the maximum possible score was 120. (On the test itself, it said each question was worth 50 point. That was a mistake based on last year's exam.)
2. The average score was about 84%, which is not bad. So unlike the first midterm, I didn't give any further points to pad the score.
3. Note that on the Excel homework, there are actually 9 of these. So you get 10 free points, which is what is in the item labeled bonus.
4. You can see the class grade distribution in a file labeled Midterm 2 Results.
Midterm 2 has been graded - exam scores will be uploaded in a few hours.
I need to take a break now. I will upload not just the exam scores but the recent Excel homework and blog posts tracking will also be updated. I will post the grade distribution for the exam.
Tomorrow I will read you blog posts on reputation. If you haven't done one of those posts yet, you can still get that in so that I will read and respond to your post.
Tomorrow I will read you blog posts on reputation. If you haven't done one of those posts yet, you can still get that in so that I will read and respond to your post.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Reminders/Happy Thanksgiving
1. There is a blog post due on Friday. It is on reputations.
2. The last Excel homework has been posted. It is on the Shapiro-Stiglitz model. There is a video for it that you should watch first.
3. If you are going out of town for the holiday, have a good time. If you are staying in the area and want ti meet with me, about your paper or about anything else, I'd be happy to do that.
2. The last Excel homework has been posted. It is on the Shapiro-Stiglitz model. There is a video for it that you should watch first.
3. If you are going out of town for the holiday, have a good time. If you are staying in the area and want ti meet with me, about your paper or about anything else, I'd be happy to do that.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Excel Homework Due December 1 at 11 PM
This is the last Excel Homework.
This homework is on extensions of the basic Shapiro and Stiglitz model, with a particular focus on making the monitoring intensity a choice variable.
You should watch the video presentation of the basic model first. This is a full lecture on the math of the model. It takes about a half hour. (If you want the PowerPoint file, a link to it is in the description of the video.)
xlsx file
This homework is on extensions of the basic Shapiro and Stiglitz model, with a particular focus on making the monitoring intensity a choice variable.
You should watch the video presentation of the basic model first. This is a full lecture on the math of the model. It takes about a half hour. (If you want the PowerPoint file, a link to it is in the description of the video.)
xlsx file
Sunday, November 15, 2015
About the marked up versions of your papers
I have just now finished marking up the 8th paper. I'm hopeful that by the end of the day I can do 3 more of these and then perhaps a couple more tomorrow morning. If you don't get your marked up paper by class tomorrow, give me a nudge and I will get it done in the afternoon.
I plan to spend a few minutes of class time tomorrow illustrating what you need to do from a Word Processing point of view to produce your second drafts and to show you have responded to my comments. On the substance of what you write and what I've commented on, you are welcome to discuss that with me either via email or by setting up a meeting with me.
Do note that I am commenting as I read, one time through only. I am not waiting to read through the whole paper and then return to make comments. That might be fairer to you, but it is just too time consuming for me. It also illustrates to you how I read. I make argument with what I'm reading then and there. What I hope your writing in response does is to grapple with that argument and to anticipate some further argument.
Finally, on a technical note, please know that I'm putting in a section break between your title page and the first page of your paper. I'm also using page numbering that utilizes the Different First Page feature, so that the first page with a page number is page 2 of the body of the paper (page 3 of the document).
I plan to spend a few minutes of class time tomorrow illustrating what you need to do from a Word Processing point of view to produce your second drafts and to show you have responded to my comments. On the substance of what you write and what I've commented on, you are welcome to discuss that with me either via email or by setting up a meeting with me.
Do note that I am commenting as I read, one time through only. I am not waiting to read through the whole paper and then return to make comments. That might be fairer to you, but it is just too time consuming for me. It also illustrates to you how I read. I make argument with what I'm reading then and there. What I hope your writing in response does is to grapple with that argument and to anticipate some further argument.
Finally, on a technical note, please know that I'm putting in a section break between your title page and the first page of your paper. I'm also using page numbering that utilizes the Different First Page feature, so that the first page with a page number is page 2 of the body of the paper (page 3 of the document).
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