代写ECON3210 Financial Markets and Institutions Mid-term exam, Summer Semester 2 2024代写留学生Matlab程序

ECON3210 Financial Markets and Institutions

Mid-term exam, Summer Semester 2 2024

Topics to revise:

Topic 3 Funding of the economy through direct finance, financial intermediation and net creation of private money

Topic 4 Auctions in the government bond market and asset-backed securities Topic 5 Security lending and short selling; regulation of short selling

Topic 6 Managed funds: traditional managed funds, hedge funds, ETF and mfunds

Exam Conditions:

It is a timed exam with a 115 minute timer. If you decide to use the extend the time option so you wait for your files to be fully uploaded then there would be no automatic submission,

However, late submission penalties will apply. DO NOT FORGET TO PRESS SUBMIT!

It is an open book unsupervised assignment. It is an individual assessment. Collaboration is NOT permitted.

The files to upload require hand-written answers for  all diagrams, balance sheets

calculations and equations as well as your full name and student number at the top of the answer. You are allowed to type the part of the answers that is only text.  You can use a   tablet if you can handwrite with a special pen.

Scan your exam answers for a given question, merge them if there are more than one page for the answer and upload them as one pdf document per question. Sending files by email is NOT permitted. If you miss the extension window, your next option is to attach your file into the separate upload files emergency link.

Materials you need:

  Several sheets of paper, if possible without lines, to write your official answer.

  Rough paper to draft your answers before you copy it on the actual paper you will upload

  A black pen and possibly blue and red pens for your flow of fund diagrams (avoid using pencil on your official answer as not easy to read)

  A calculator.

  A device to take picture of your handwritten answers and convert them into a pdf file. You can also include your pictures into a word document and convert it to a pdf file.

If you do not have access to a flatbed scanner, you can use a phone app such as “Adobe Scan” or “Microsoft Office Lens” .

You can also answer with an ipad and create a pdf directly from the ipad.

Resources to study:

All resources available on the course Bb and UQ Extend platform (self study, tutorial,

workshop and further training) and in the assessment folder (revision online quiz on topic 3 and 4 and revision quiz on topic 5 and 6). It is not recommended to use external resources that have not been validated by the course coordinator as they may be conflicting the approach we take in the course.

Weight in the final mark:

The mid-term exam is 35% of the final mark.

Structure of the assignment:

The mid-term exam content is worth 35 marks.

Part A 10 marks. Answer 10 Multiple Choice Answer Questions

Part B 18 marks. Solve 2 problems B1 and B2.

Upload a pdf file of your hand-written answers for each

Part C 7 marks. Answer 2 questions. C1 is a true-false-unclear statement to justify in details; C2 is a critical thinking question, on an unseen context, often supported by an article.

See the expectations and the marking standards at the end of the document.

Late submission and Deferred exam:

The following penalties apply If you submit after 11:55:

•     Less than 5 minutes, 5%.

•     From 5 minutes to less than 15 minutes, 20%.

•     More than 15 minutes, 100%.

There is a deferred exam on Thursday 9th January 2025 from 18:00-19:55. Remember that personal statements of circumstance are no longer accepted and medical certificates are required.

Requests for deferred exam must be done on My-Sinet.

Other penalties:

Entirely typed uploaded answers will be disregarded and will get 0 mark on the ground that the marker cannot check authorship.

Please do NOT upload word document or pictures format. A penalty of 2 marks will apply for each file that has not a pdf format.

If files are missing or if they are the wrong ones when you submit then you will get 0 mark

for the question. Files sent by emails will be ignored. Submit late through extension

window option (appearing at the end of the timer) or separate upload emergency links rather than sending files by email.

You will lose marks for some good parts of your answer if other parts of the answer

contradict or are inconsistent with your good explanations and/or give evidence that you had actually not understood the question.

Misconduct procedures will take place and penalties decided by the Integrity team will apply if you are caught collaborating with others, regardless of whether you are the

student helping someone else or the student receiving help. It is also inacceptable to use

companies that sell answers. Googling the questions or using AI is not permitted; your

answers are expected to reflect the contents of the course not the contents resulting from a google search or ChatGPT request.

Technical issues:

It is your responsibility to take the assignment in a location where the Internet is stable

(check regularly that you are still connected) and have a plan B available if your Internet fails (like having arranged with a neighbour to use their internet in case of emergency). If you

have any doubt, go to UQ campus for instance; provided you have not submitted you will be able to reconnect to your test.

If the system does not want to save your answers, (you receive a message of error that it   does not save) you need to shut down completely your computer (DO NOT SUBMIT THE TEST YET) and reconnect to your test that will still be running. After checking that all the

answers are saved and that the files are uploaded, you can use the remaining time, if any

left, to check your Mcq and your answers located in answer boxes. It is highly recommended that during the last 15 minutes of the test you do NOT touch the files uploaded.

For technical help contact AskUs preferably by chat.https://web.library.uq.edu.au/contact- us

Expectations and marking standards:

PART A

Each question is worth 1marks. (10 Marks Total)

10 MCQ, covering topic 3 to 6

Same nature and level of difficulty as questions in practice online tests.

Only one answer is correct. Choose the answer that is correct in most cases. Disregard

answers that would be true only under very specific circumstances that were not specified in the question.

Be aware of the occasional presence of NOT correct in the question! If you find more than one correct answer, check if you have not overlooked a NOT correct in the question.

PART B

Answer each question in a separate paper that you upload as pdf, as indicated for each question. Marks are as indicated. (18 Marks Total)

2 problems covering topics 3 to 6 (B1 and B2)

Questions have several subquestions and can mix up topics.

Same nature and level of difficulty as problems seen in tutorials and workshops.

The questions are different from the ones in the tutorials. Be careful not to be too

mechanical in answering the exercises. Personal abbreviations that were not used in the learning resources are not accepted.

You are expected to define the concepts you use, provide formula before plugging

numbers, show the details and ALL steps of your calculations, make explicit the

reasoning you follow and interpret your result. Make sure that the interpretations are

not simply a repetition of the result. This is part of good writing standards and evidence of a deep level of understanding as opposed to mechanical study.

If you are afraid to be short of time, write short answers first and leave some space to add definitions, explanations and interpretations later when you have some time/energy left.

Warning: consistency with previous mistakes will not always be rewarded (especially if they take you back too close to existing model answers of problems in UQ Extend).

PART C

Answer questions in separate paper to upload as pdf file, as indicated. Marks are as indicated. (7 Marks Total)

This part of the exam puts a strong emphasis on critical thinking, ability to apply knowledge to new contexts, the depth of understanding and quality of writing.

Your answer must be well presented, with logical links between sentences. Messy

answers and argumentation with parts presented in a wrong order or repetitive will be penalised. Be precise. Define the key concepts involved in the question. Vague

explanations will not gain full mark. Refrain from writing on aspects not relevant to the question. Off topic components are evidence that the question was not fully

understood and therefore will be penalised. You may not get marks for some good

explanations if other parts of the answer contradict them and/or give evidence that you had actually not understood at all the key concepts. Therefore, do not gamble: only

write information that you are convinced is correct. You should avoid google or other search engine as well as AI it is likely that the information you will find will not be

precise enough for the course and/or fall in the trap of the misconception that the

course precisely tries to debunk. Copying/paste slides contents is not acceptable as

this does not give evidence that you have understood the content. Refrain using contents from your other courses as markers will look for answers reflecting

exclusively what has been covered in this course.

1 question (C1) to discuss 1 statement covering topics 3 to 6. (2 marks)

You need to conclude whether a statement is true (always correct with no further

condition/restriction) false (always incorrect given the case provided) or unclear (could be

correct under certain circumstances to be defined and incorrect under other circumstances to be defined).

You then need to justify your answer in four to six explanatory sentences. Without an

explanation or with a completely unrelated explanation you will get 0 marks even if your

conclusion true false or unclear was correct. Be careful that unclear means that if it true in

some circumstances that need to be defined in your answer and false in other circumstances that also need to be defined in your answer; one cannot get marks for unclear by simply

saying that the question was incomplete or badly written!

1 question (C2) of critical thinking not covered in the learning resources related to topics 3 to 6. (5 marks)

The question applies the concepts studied in the course in an unseen context. It could take the form. of interpreting and commenting an extract from an article or some new data.

Part C is really the discriminatory part of the exam (with the explanations and

interpretations given in B too) therefore students aiming for a 7 need to perform. well on this part. It is easier to secure marks in Part A and B than in Part C.