ECON4951 - Autumn 2017

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Plan for the oral exam in January 2018

Published Dec. 20, 2017 3:25 PM

The plan for the oral exam is now uploaded on the semester page.

All exams on Friday 5 January takes place in room 1203 - 12th floor

All exams on Monday 8 January takes place in room 1220 - 12th floor

All candidates must meet at least 15 minutes before they are to be examined.

Oral exam in ECON4951

Published Dec. 12, 2017 6:19 PM

There will not be announced grades for the take home exam until after the oral exam. Then you will have both grade for the take home exam and the final grade after oral exam. The oral exam will take place on Friday, January 5 and Monday, January 8, 2018.

All candidates who have submitted the take home exam is supposed to take the oral exam.

The plan for oral exam will be published on the webpage.

Inequality à la Piketty

Published Nov. 15, 2017 3:00 PM

Read the slides here (.pdf)

Topic and venue for next week's lecture (31st of October)

Published Oct. 27, 2017 1:47 PM

Next week's lecture will be on Tuesday, October 31st, at 17:15-19:00 in ES1047 (the seminar room in the 10th floor of the social sciences building)

The topic will be the expansion of the welfare state in Northern Europe and the U.S, as well as selected NoWeDe research at the end.

(Pizza will be served. Costumes optional)

Topic for Wednesday's lecture (18th of October)

Published Oct. 16, 2017 11:59 AM

The topic for this week's lecture will be "Colonies and Empires"

Allen chapters 5, 6, and 7.

Guest lecture in ECON2951/4951 from Debraj Ray

Published Oct. 9, 2017 1:30 PM

Title: The long shadow of history: divergence and convergence of economic outcomes

Topic: If we believe that human beings the world over are driven by a common set of economic motivations and that there is no fundamental difference in their desires to save and procreate, Debraj Ray asks, then the differences that we do observe may be driven by their particular historical experiences thereafter propagated via economic, social and political influences. He provides examples form recent literature, studying the persistent impact of distant history.

Date and time: 11 October 2017, 12:15-14:00.

The lecture is open for everyone who is interested.

Diagrams for wages in England

Published Sep. 15, 2017 4:30 PM

Download here (.pdf)

Topics for seminar presentations

Published Sep. 13, 2017 1:56 PM

Seminar presentation topics are now posted on /studier/emner/sv/oekonomi/ECON4951/h17/timeplan/index.html#SEM-F. (A list is also made available on Fronter).

Please plan for your presentation to last between 10 and 20 minutes (twice this if you are two persons working together). It is of course OK to add more material than the suggested paper(s), e-mail me for suggestions if you want to.

If you have not yet filled out the online form, please notify me by mail (mod at ssb.no) when you do fill it out, and pick a topic where there are spots available. If you need to change date, please attempt to switch with someone else (and notify me!)

If your name is not on the list, but should be, please let me know.

Detailed topics / paper suggestions will be made available at least three weeks i...

Rescheduling of lecture

On September 6 there is a political science conference that uses the auditorium. Next lecture for the course is September 13.

A new lecture (for the one that was lost this week) will be scheduled later and a message will be posted when the time and date is set.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Questions? Contact the Department of Economics.

Guidelines for master students

Published Sep. 4, 2017 4:08 PM

All master students following ECON4951 have to:

Select a topic (in the link in the previous post) by Friday 8th September. Topics will then be confirmed the week after
This topic will form the basis for parts of your home exam. (There will be an opportunity to change your topic later, before November 24)
The topic will also be the basis for a presentation at the seminar. Seminar participation is voluntary but strongly encouraged. All students participating in the seminar will give a 10-minute presentation on a specific topic, based on the web form.

The seminar originally scheduled for September 11th is moved to September 18th.

If you want to present on September 18th, you can, in addition to filling out the online form, email J?rgen (mod (at) ssb.no). I can then confirm your topic straight away so you do not have to wait until next week. If there are no volunteers for...