CRN: 21864, Section 01: 1:00 - 2:50PM

Team Name	Member	Member	Member
BAMFs	Jason B	Justin F	Nathan J
H squared	Tiffanie H	Abby F
Hungry Hungry Hippos	Christopher S	Hanna-Riikka T

[1] Weekly Wall Street Journal Quizzes

• Starts December 3 Monday. Coverage is the previous week.
• Quickly assess students' understanding of Journal context.
• About 25 weekly multiple choice questions are based on front page articles from the Journal's First Section, Marketplace, Money&Investing, and Personal Journal sections.
• Team competition.
• I join, too. Beat me if you can.
• Not an open-paper quizz.
• You fight for your team's pride and there is a luxurious prize for winning team.

Results

Team Name	11/26	12/3	12/10	1/28	2/4	2/11			Total	Ranking
Full Points	25	26	24	27	23	20			145
Matsuda the Greatest	16	14	14	19	15	16			94	1st
H squared	16	12	14	13	7	14			76	2nd
BAMFs	13	16	13	11	6	16			75	3rd
Hungry Hungry Hippos	13	11	15	10	8	10			68	4th

[2] WSJ Article Presentation

• Your team choose the base WSJ article.
• Presenting team decides the format of the presentation. Method is entirely up to the team. You must use PowerPoint presentation.
• Presentation time is between 10 - 15 minutes.
• If you ask a question, you get an extra point.
• Your presentation will be recorded on DVD and put on YouTube.com.
• Presenting team must email me the PowerPoint slides. After your presentation is ok.

Team Name	Presentation, Date & Slide	Question
BAMFs	12/13 slides, 1/31 slides	1/10, 1/17, 2/7
H squared	1/10 slides, 2/7 slides	12/6, 1/17, 1/31
Hungry Hungry Hippos	12/6 slides, 1/17 slides	12/13, 1/31, 2/7

[3] Textbook Chapter-End Questions

• Standard Points = 10.
• One time late submission: No penalty.

Team Name	12/13	12/20	1/24	1/31			Extra 1	Extra 2	Extra 3
BAMFs	10	10	10	10				10	10
H squared	11	10	11	10			10
Hungry Hungry Hippos	10	10	9	10				10	10

• Extra 1 = sampling distribution
• Extra 2 = Empirical Exercise 4.4.

[4] Stock Trading Simulation Game provided by MarketWatch's Vertual Stock Exchange (VSE)

Step 1: Students are divided into 4 groups according to their last name. Each group has 2 members.

Step 2: Each group determines the name of the group. For example, Ada AAA Fund. Whatever you like.

Step 3: Go to http://vse.marketwatch.com/Game/Homepage.aspx

Step 4: Game ID: KingMatsuda (case insensitive), Game Name: Matsuda Econometrics 20078

Step 5: For new uses, you must first register to MarketWatch. You can provide somebody's email address or use the free email account. Share this email address and log in information (password for the MarketWatch) for MarketWatch among the members of your team.

Step 6: I will give you the passowrd to join my game in class.

Step 7: Good luck.

[5] Project

 

[6] Paper Airplane Contest

• On our last class date: 2/15/Friday/2008.
• Individual Competition.
• Involves the use of scarce resource (paper) and its efficient use.
• Rules: The use of tape is allowed. But nothing else.
• You can use any type of paper you want.
• On the competition day, you have one try.
• Prize: Luxurious prize.