For group work: All groups should work independently. You may collaborate with members of your group, but may not discuss any aspect of project or case with other groups. Sharing information or ideas between groups will be considered cheating and discovered violators will be subject to severe sanctions. 

 

For exams and individual assignments: All individuals should work independently. The problem set or examination  with the traces of other persons' works or traces of  last year solutions sheets will be deemed as unacceptable and discarded. Violators will be subject to severe sanctions. Unfortunately, in the case of exams and problem sets it is impossible to distinguish between the cheater and  the person who provide his or her work to cheaters. Thus, all parties involved will be treated equally severe. 

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Here student insists that he is innocent of cheating.

Readings should be done in advance of class in which material will be discussed. The outline below will advise of the relevant topic of discussion. The required readings are marked with (X). Students can access supplemental readings through me directly.  Please note: I do not require you to understand any small detail of econometric technique, but one should be able to extract and digest the main idea of the paper.  This is, of course, in addition to the important reading of the Wall Street Journal for the course investment project.  Some of the classes require a lot of reading, please plan ahead!

I  am also putting some "extra" readings on the list (marked EXTRA). Those readings are for your enjoyment. They are not part of the package (mostly).  However, if possible, I will provide hyperlink for PDF file. You should read them if you feel that the course is not challenging enough for you.

Written Reports:

Each study group will also prepare a written report on the case. This will involve answers to the series of questions discussed above for the presentations. Each report should be typed, double-spaced and generally no more than 5 pages in length, not including tables and graphs. The report will be graded on the basis of the quality of the research, as well as of the professional presentation (neatness, clarity of exposition, etc.). I would encourage you to submit this report via Email in Word with appended Excel graphs/charts in order to save paper. I will strive to give you feedback in the form of a memo, also via E-mail, which will record your grade. I will assign the same grade to each member of the group, unless there is a compelling reason to do otherwise. 

Late assignments  cannot be accepted for credit except for the most serious reasons. As such I consider serious family matters, serious health problems (certified!), etc. For anything else (late party, job interview, even the project for other course) here is my response: .

NB: Please note that for some case sessions the class will be divided into two parts. In this case, the deadline of submitting the case is the EARLIEST class date for BOTH groups. 

They should be switched off during the class. I am the only guy who can answer the phone call in my classroom.