Week 1: January 21
Researching economics and finance: information resources and writing: the White Paper and the Equity Research Report. Introduction to accessing Bloomberg Terminal data. Library Information Session with the Reference Librarian.
Begin lecture on valuation.
Assignment 1: Equity Research Report
Preliminary 5-minute snap presentation Week 3; Report due Week 4; Company: Eni Spa: Buy, Sell, or Hold?
Selected Readings:
(i) What is Valuation? by Professor Aswath Damodaran, NYU Stern School of Business:http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/background/valintro.htm March 21, 2014
(ii) CFA Equity Research Report Essentials 2013
Brief discussion of the research papers: begin to prepare 2 research questions for discussion in Week 2.
Week 2: January 28
Present (1 minute) preliminary research question-ideas.
Information Cascades - discussion questions assigned.
Classroom Games: Information Cascades by Lisa Anderson and Charles Holt, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Autumn, 1996) http://www.jstor.org/stable/2138561
Learning from the Behavior of Others: Conformity, Fads, and Informational Cascades by Sushil Bikhchandani and David Hirshleifer, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Summer, 1998) http://www.jstore.org/stable/2647037
Week 3: February 4
Snap presentation of the Equity Research Report - 5 minutes for a few randomly selected persons from a buy, hold, and sell group (have a couple of slides prepared).
Begin the White Paper assignment: Policy Viewpoint: What are the implications of cryptocurrencies for central banks and monetary policy? White Paper due March 17. Includes a power point presentation (groups)
Policy Contribution Issue no. 10, June 2018: “Cryptocurrencies and monetary policy,” by: Grégory Claeys, Maria Demertzis and Konstantinos Efstathiou, Bruegel. Date: June 28, 2018
Week 4: February 11
Equity Research Report Due beginning of class.
White Paper assignment: discussion of the topic of cryptocurrencies and monetary policy.
Thesis statements presented to class. Upload to Moodle at the beginning of class.
Week 5: February 18 Collective Action and Social Norms/Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Market
Discussion questions assigned for: Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms: by Elinor Ostrom, Joumal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 14, Number 3—Summer 2000—Pages 137-158
Paper to be determined.
Week 6: February 25
TBD
Week 7: March 3 Labor Market Discrimination
Discussion question assigned for class.
Introduction to measuring wage discrimination (students should read briefly through Oaxaca paper before class as we will go over it in class: Male Female Wage Discrimination in Urban Labor Markets, Author: Ronald Oaxaca, International Economic Review, Volume 14, Issue 3, October 1973 (693-709)
Bayesian Bigot? Statistical Discrimination, Stereotypes, and Employer Decision Making Author(s): Devah Pager and Diana Karafin, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 621, The Moynihan Report Revisited: Lessons and Reflections after Four Decades (Jan., 2009), pp. 70-93 Published by: in association with the Sage Publications, Inc. American Academy of Political and Social Science Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40375833 Accessed: 19-04-2015 10:11 UTC
Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination Author(s): Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan Source: The American Economic Review, Vol. 94, No. 4 (Sep., 2004), pp. 991-1013 Published by: American Economic Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3592802 Accessed: 19-04-2015 09:58 UTC
Prepare an excel file of the Oaxaca wage discrimination file using the CPS May data for Week 9: demonstrate ability to clearly present and document and excel file.
Week 8: March 17
Presentation of research paper outlines: upload to Moodle at the beginning of class
White Paper Due – Presentation
Week 9: March 24 Role of Government Discussion
Discussion questions to prepare before class: Macroeconomics of Unbalanced Growth: The Anatomy of Urban Crisis Author(s): William J. Baumol Source: The American Economic Review, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Jun., 1967), pp. 415-426 Published by: American Economic Association
Ted Talk on not-for-profit management.
Week 10: March 31
Exam on CFA Code of Conduct and Standards of Professional Conduct
Week 11: April 7
Economic movie night
Week 12: April 14
Research paper presentations
Week 13: April 21
Research paper presentations
Week 14: April 28
Research paper presentations
Week 15: Final Exam: See University schedule for day and time.
Research paper presentations.
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