meet the 2015 team
From Left to Right: Alexander Courtman, Feras Zarea, Gregory Mannix, Mijail Mariano (Q), Douglas Horowitz, Milton Farez, Sana Zahra, Jakob Berhelsen, Prof. Veronika Dolar (and Jonathan Davis, Ramona Miranda, and Nikolas Savva not on the picture) .
Schedule
This class will be offered as an independent study; independent studies are individualized, directed studies taken with limited classroom instruction.
This class will meet once or twice a week in order to prepare students for the preliminary round of the FED challenge competition that will be at the end of October. The first two months (September and October) should be fairly work-intensive. Students will be expected to work in groups with other students and meet with the professors at assigned times and dates.
Although there will be a formal schedule, we will be able to make adjustments to suit specific students' schedules. In addition, students will always be able to reach the professors by email, phone, Skype, Google hangout, etc.
After the competition, students are expected to work independently and complete their poster presentations and reports and hand-in their final work by the end of the semester.
This class will meet once or twice a week in order to prepare students for the preliminary round of the FED challenge competition that will be at the end of October. The first two months (September and October) should be fairly work-intensive. Students will be expected to work in groups with other students and meet with the professors at assigned times and dates.
Although there will be a formal schedule, we will be able to make adjustments to suit specific students' schedules. In addition, students will always be able to reach the professors by email, phone, Skype, Google hangout, etc.
After the competition, students are expected to work independently and complete their poster presentations and reports and hand-in their final work by the end of the semester.
Format:
- Teams must prepare and deliver a 15-minute presentation on the economy—modeled after those made by Federal Reserve policymakers—that:
- addresses current economic conditions;
- forecasts near-term changes in economic and financial conditions of critical importance to monetary policy (such as unemployment, inflation and output);
- identifies possible economic, financial and international issues that might present either positive or negative risks to the economy; and
- recommends a monetary policy response based on the above conditions.
- Prepared presentations (deck of slides) need to be sent by email to the Education staff one week prior to the competition. The charts in the presentation must be accompanied by some text to create a clear and concise narrative of how the team decided on its policy recommendation based on their analysis.
- There will be a 15-minute Q&A session following the presentation.
- All rules and procedures from the first round apply to the semi-final round. The final round will not include a formal presentation and will be judged exclusively on the team’s performance during a 30-minute Q&A session.