Notice
Reminder on the exam rules
Dear students,
Please find below a reminder on the rules for the Political Economics and Public Economics Exam (midterm and Summer sessions).
Political Economics
Students can take the Political Economics part either at the midterm in April or in the June 23rd session. If a student has taken the April 10th exam and sits for the exam on June 23rd, her midterm grade is automatically discarded.
Public Economics
Students can take the Public Economics part either at the midterm on May 29thor in the June 23rd session. If a student has taken the May 29th exam and sits for the exam on June 23rd, her midterm grade is automatically discarded.
The final exam is a three-hour written test comprising six questions (three questions for each module, one hour and a half per module).
Each question may offer a choice of subquestions. To pass the exam, students must achieve a passing grade (an average score of at least 18) in both modules. The final exam grade is calculated as the average of the grades for the two modules. Each question is graded on a scale from 0 to 34, making it possible to achieve a final mark of 30 without answering all questions perfectly.
At the end of each module, students attending the course may volunteer to give a presentation. Presentations are graded on a scale from 0 to +3, and the score is added to the grade of the first exam session (or midterm) immediately following the course, provided the student attend all other students presentations. The total is rounded to the nearest integer to determine the final mark. Withdrawals from scheduled presentations incur a penalty of -1. Presentations can be given only once and cannot be repeated in subsequent years.
Important information
Dear Students,
this is to let you know that:
a) lectures marked as starting at 11 will start at 11 sharp and end at 12:30 unless otherwise communicated; lectures marked as starting at nine will start at 9:30 and end at 11;
b) as written in the syllabus, attending students, that is those students that attended at least half of the classes, will be able to present a paper to be chosen later on and obtain a bonus on the final grade;
c) beyond the presentation, attendance and lively participation in class will be rewarded at the stage of the evaluation;
d) all attending students are required to participate to the lab experiment simulating dynamic market interactions taking place between 9:30 and 12:30 next Thursday, April 16 in room S2 (non-attending students are also encouraged to participate: the experience of a simulated dynamic market game offer insights important for your future that are hard to obtain otherwise)
see you tomorrow
Giancarlo Spagnolo