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This assignments for all teams update and supersede the currently posted syllabus. The syllabus will be updated shortly to reflect this change.

Assignments

1. Enter Rise competition

1.1 Each team (1, 2, 3) needs to register for RISE.

1.2 Using Campus Tool Wiki, each group needs to create a Wiki called Abstract.

1.3. Revise Campus Tool Wiki Abstract based on my comments

1.4. Submit RISE competition Abstract to MyRise using the information below AND finally email me a copy of confirmation of your submission, or screenshot, if confirmation is not available.

2. Literature Review section (One primary and two secondary responses)

Your objective here is to expand your review of literature as necessary to support your hypotheses, methods, and data collection ideas.

Specifically, examine

1. Your claims and hypotheses for the testable propositions. Have these propositions already been tested? What were the conclusions? What are the expected signs for the relationships?

2. Your proposed methods. Have your methods been used for a similar problem? What limitations aroise? In summary, how were they handled technically?

3. Regarding the data you want to use, has this data been used for similar research by others?

4. If you are proposing novel approaches, have similar approaches been used for related problems or for different problems?

2.1 Using Campus Tool Wiki, for primary assignment create content for the literature review section. During primary response, you may divide the scope of the literature review contributions with your teammate to avoid duplication.

2.2. First secondary response: Provide editorial comments on your teammate's comments (Team 1 and Team 2). Team 3: respond to my comments.

2.3. Second secondary response: Join individual sections and integrate for a common submission for Literature Review Section.

3. Preliminary Outline for Data section

Your objective here is to much more specific that in the proposal. By now, you have a good idea of general and specific data sources, but you may not have explored the limitations of the data sources. This outline assignment prepares for the real task of finding data, by

a) finding a concrete means of getting the data you want to get,

b) testing the adequacy of the data you intend,

c) finding alternative data if the main dataset is not adequate.

Since the deadlines coincide with the Literature Review, you may consider the time constraint and organizational choices to do both.

3.1 Using Campus Tool Wiki create outline of data used for research. Be specific:

3.1.1.

a) What data is used for your primary independent variables' analysis (what various types and sources of text data, financial data, monitoring data, as applicable).

b) What time frame are using?

c) What data frequency?

3.1.2.

a) What data is used for your outcomes (typically should be Flow of Funds choices of individual sectoral agents, e.g. levels/flows of portfolios.)

b) What time frame are using?

c) What data frequency?

3.1.3

a) What data is used by your control variables (e.g. macroeconometric conditions)?

b) What time frame are using?

c) What data frequency?

3.1.4 To be sure that you are identifying stress/sentiment that is distinct from consumer optimism, for example, what are the alternative variables that you want to include to strengthen the case for your latent construct? You may want to investigate appropriate choices among.