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• All written and printed (including photocopied) material  allowed: books, annotated books, problem sets with solutions, your own lecture notes, copies of someone else's lectures, etc. Pocket calculators are allowed. (Communicating devices are of course not!)
• Write legibly! If part of your answer cannot be deciphred, the grading committee will just have to assume it isn't there.  (But do not waste time doing calligraphy.  The committee has seen edgy ?2?'s before and can tell them from ?z?'s in most cases where you don't confuse yourself.)
• It is likely a good advice not to fit as much as possible on one page - if you rather start a new sheet for each problem, you can discard the entire sheet if you write something wrong, without having to copy previously written text.  (Of course you can just cross out text, and it will be disregarded.)
• As for...

Alice and myself (Nils) will be available for your questions.  Our offices are both on the 12th floor, near the elevators, opposite sides.  We cannot guarantee to be in the office at all times, but you are free to knock at whatever hours (please, disregard any “consultation hours” which may have been posted) – or, send an e-mail if you want to be more sure that anyone is actually there.  

I do recommend that you try to sort out where you are stuck before asking – because you learn from it.  If you try to identify what parts you can solve, and where your troubles start, you are much better set.  (Also, try to get it down to a “gap” – “when I learn this, then I can likely do the rest of it”.)

– Nils

There has been a policy of not handing out solutions before the seminar is done. However, as it was requested from some Tuesday students to get one earlier than May 16th: mail me for a scan.

– Nils.

Friday's lecture, first hour: I will review the autumn 2012 exam. Take it as a (half) extra seminar – that is, do the problem set. 

Friday's lecture, second hour: review. Requests welcomed, preferrably by Thursday @23:59. My e-mail is ncf (at) econ. 

The last seminar: Everyone is welcome at Alice's seminar Thursday 16th – that includes those who didn't show up at today's 2nd seminar, and those who did show up at today's first but would like to see it one more time (hopefully without my errors).

 – Nils

Note: last seminar for seminar 3  is added on Thursday the 16th of May at 10,15.

Seminar11 will be discussed then, but all students are welcome to join and ask questions or suggest further exercises to solve.

Exam autumn2012 is now available, and problems for the last seminar.

Now I have corrected the mistake.

So you can ignore the previous message.

bjorn

Related to problems 2 and 19 in P1:

Do problems 2 and 19 from the Compendium as they are.

In addition do parts (c) in each of the problems as Kuhn-Tucker problems.

A problem set for next week's seminars is posted. 

Also, I have merged the old problem sets in one file (Seminars_0_to_6.pdf), to avoid overcrowding the webpage any further.

bjorn

Hei,

Let me remind you, one more time, that the semester assignment is not compulsory.

This is an opportunity for you to get individual feedback on how you solve the problems and, most importantly, on how you justify the steps in your solutions. 

Furthermore, there will be no suggested solutions for the assignment. In other words, how much feedback you'll receive depends on how much work you'll put into the assignemnt.

(bjorn)

The assignment is now posted on the course website.

Deadline for handing in is Monday, April 15-th, in class.

You may work in groups, but please hand in separate solutions.

Our contact students are:

Iman Ghayoornia (imang@student.sv.uio.no) and

Suzanna-Zora Rye (suzanna.rye7@hotmail.com)

(BD)

Problems for seminar 1 are posted. (BD)

Hi, I have uploaded a (preliminary) detailed teaching-plan for this semester. I will say more about this on the first lecture.

• Bjorn Dapi