Midterm #1 Exam Answer Key ECN 151A Summer 2013 Eschker (3pts each) Version A 1. Ans: E 2. Question deleted; Everyone gets 3 points 3. Ans: D 4. Ans: A 5. Ans: D 6. Ans: B 7. Ans: C 8. Ans: C 9. Ans: B 10. Ans: E Version B 1. Ans: C 2. Ans: A 3. Ans: B 4. Ans: D 5. Ans: E 6. Ans: C 7. Ans: B 8. Ans: E 9. Question deleted; Everyone gets 3 points 10. Ans: D Part II. Answer the following. Show your work for all answers. 10 points each. 1. After watching the TV show American Idol‚ Blake thinks that
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intertemporal decisions In attempt to outline the standard economic theory about how people make intertemporal decisions we must first begin by looking at what intertemporal decision are‚ using examples to receive a clear understanding of the full concept. Once we have a distinguished understanding of intertemporal choice we must then look berifly at the economic and psycholigical history which formed this concept and ultimatally lead to the theory of discounting utility. It is then that
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UNIT II: UTILITY ANALYSISConcept of Utility * For effective decision-making‚ businessmen have to analyze and understand consumer behavior. Every rational human being endeavors to maximize his total utility by selecting the best from the given set of alternatives. * Utility refers to the satisfaction or pleasure that a consumer obtains by consuming the product or service; or want-satisfying ability of a good or service. * The concept of utility has been developed to explain the basic principles
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Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory This is a revised version of the book‚ last updated June 16th‚ 2013. Please e-mail me any comments and corrections. Ariel Rubinstein rariel@post.tau.ac.il Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory The Economic Agent Second Edition Ariel Rubinstein PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright c 2012 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press‚ 41 William Street‚ Princeton‚ New Jersey 08540 In the
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Rossing‚ J.‚ Miller‚ W.‚ Cecil‚ A.‚ Stamper‚ S. (2012). iLearning: The future of higher education? Student perceptions on learning with mobile tablets. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 12(2)‚ 1-26. http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ978904.pdf Wright‚ V.‚ & Wilson‚ D. (2012). Teachers’ Use of Technology: Lessons Learned from the Teacher Education Program to the Classroom. SRATE Journal. 20(2)‚48-60. http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ959529.pdf How does learning through
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Observation on U.S. Treasury Yields Date: Oct 10‚ 2012 Introduction In this paper‚ we establish three regression models on U.S. Treasury yields with two different maturities: three-month and one-year. Model 1 is to interpret the relationship between unemployment rates and the risk-free rates‚ which we choose the three-month T-bill interest rates. Model 2 is to evaluate the movement of short-term interest rates under pure expectation theory and liquidity premium theory as well as to compare
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UNIT 4 – TASK 1 2 INTRODUCTION 2 RELEVANT THEORIES OF LEARNING 2 (Neo-)Behaviourists 2 Humanists 2 Gestalt Theory 2 The Cognitivists 3 Other theories 3 COMMUNICATION THEORIES 3 Transactional Analysis (TA) and Teaching 3 Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) 4 CONCLUSION 4 UNIT 4 – TASK 2 5 INTRODUCTION 5 CURRENT SITUATION 5 THE FUTURE 7 How to apply the Humanist perspective? 7 How to apply the Cognitivist perspective? 7 UNIT 4 – TASK 3 9 INTRODUCTION 9 CURRENT SITUATION 9 WHAT I
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FINS2624 S2 2012 Mockterm FAMILY NAME OTHER NAMES STUDENT ID SIGNATURE THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES SCHOOL OF BANKING AND FINANCE TIME ALLOWED: N/A To make sure that we can identify your exam if your student ID number is hard to read‚ please tick the boxes below to fill in your seven digit student ID number. Detailed instructions are on the next page. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 M oc kt Page 1 of 21 Please see over er FINS2624 PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT MOCK MID-TERM
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I consider myself fortunate in that my personal learning experience has been positive overall. This may be because I enjoyed learning from an early age‚ and was receptive to new learning experiences – it might also be due to having attended a private school and being in relatively small-sized class groups where attention could be given to each student according to their needs. Further‚ it might have been enhanced by streaming‚ as I was able to progress in line with my ability – and to benefit from
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No More Pesky Learning Rates Tom Schaul Sixin Zhang Yann LeCun Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University 715 Broadway‚ New York‚ NY 10003‚ USA schaul@cims.nyu.edu zsx@cims.nyu.edu yann@cims.nyu.edu arXiv:1206.1106v2 [stat.ML] 18 Feb 2013 Abstract The performance of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) depends critically on how learning rates are tuned and decreased over time. We propose a method to automatically adjust multiple learning rates so as to minimize the expected
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