14.003/14.03 Microecon Theory & Public Pol
Spring 2014
Instructor: Paulo Jose Somaini
TAs: Youngjun Jang, Christopher Palmer, Hongkai Zhang
Lecture: TR9-10.30 (54-100)
Office Hour:
Prof. Somaini: Thu 1pm - 2:30pm, E18-212
Youngjun: Mon 11am-noon, E17-204
Chris: Tue 2pm-3pm, E17-201D (right outside of E17-204)
Hongkai: Wed 2pm-4:30pm, E18-201F (right outside of E18-222)
Announcements
Blue books pick up
It was great to have you in our 14.03 class. I hope you enjoyed your semester. We posted the solutions to the exam and left the graded blue books in E18-266 for you to pick up. You will see a large box labeled 14.03 next to the mailboxes.
We will keep the exams until the end of July. Unless you send us an email scheduling a future pick up, the exams remaining after July will be shreded and disposed of.
Have a great summer,
P.
Announced on 02 June 2014 12:40 p.m. by Paulo Jose Somaini
Final Exam Reminder: Tue 1:30 - 4:30 at Walker, Calculator Recommended
See you tomorrow (Tue)!Btw, you will be allowed to use calculator and it is recommended to bring one. Don't panic if you have abandoned this ancient device for ages -- it is fine to answer with numerical expressions without the final number.
Announced on 19 May 2014 4:05 p.m. by Hongkai Zhang
Final Review Note posted and comments about Quiz 7
Dear students,I have posted a final review note to set your expectation about the final and offer some guides for review.
In the last lecture, we did Quiz 7. Since it is a make-up and we will only look at your FIVE highest quiz score, instead of creating a separate entry in the gradebook, I just manually changed your lowest score of Quiz 1-6 to your score of Quiz 7 if the latter is higher.
Most of you got Q1 correctly. Some of you don't know the answer to Q2, the variation is from different states having different cutoff points for GED. Most of you got Q3 wrong, despite I haven't deducted points very strictly. The correct answer to Q3 is: Pooling equilibrium does not exist. Separating equilibrium may exist when there is high enough proportion of high risk type. Please review Lecture Note 18 to understand why.
Good luck and feel free to ask us questions.
Best,
Hongkai
Announced on 17 May 2014 2:58 p.m. by Hongkai Zhang
Review Session 10:30 - 12 Friday 24-115
Dear students,Just to confirm that the location and time for the optional review session tomorrow is 24-115 (usual rec room) during 10:30 - 12. See you tomorrow!
Best,
Hongkai
Announced on 15 May 2014 12:46 p.m. by Hongkai Zhang
announcement
Thank you for bringing to my attention that the formula to calculate the final score was wrong. This is the right one:
If you want to calculate your score given a particular score at the exam, use the following formula: If your current percentage grade is X% and you get a score of Y% in your final exam, your grade will be 0.8 * X/100 + 0.2 * Y/100. This is a rough calculation because it does not take into account that we have one more make up quiz and the class participation grade that accounts for 5%.
Announced on 14 May 2014 7:05 p.m. by Paulo Jose Somaini
