Uni Economics exam help - Urgent!! pls!

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I realise this is a massive longshot but-

Has anyone studied the module "Topics and applied finance" at University?

My girlfriend has got an exam tomorrow that she is really struggling with- if anyone knows about this stuff can someone either post on here or i'll send her msn addy if that's ok. Hoping someone can talk her through it somehow!

She mentioned something about "Interpretate the coefficients" and similiar stuff.

Cheers :)
 
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Aren't the coefficients basically the x and y on a graph? Interpreting them is just saying how and increase in the x value effects the y and visa versa.

Just read it has some statistics in it, such as x on y regression lines. I would imagine standard deviation also.

I am doing Economics at A level right now, plan to do economics and finance at Surrey, Keele or Exeter though.
 
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1a)

Briefly explain the two pass procedure for the testing of CAPM (capital asset pricing model). Describe what each pass aims to achieve?

Anyone know?
 
I don't get this - has she done zero preparation for this exam? Why has it boiled down to her boyfriend needed to ask randoms on a computer forum for help? Didn't she have course notes and lecturers throughout the whole semester to consult?
 
Why the need to post that? :confused:

You do realise that sometimes you can prepare for something but still find it difficult.... I'm only trying to help her so please only post if you can help.
 
i'll be boring and point you to this http://www.afajof.org/pdfs/2004program/UPDF/P61_Asset_Pricing.pdf

"In the standard TPCSR (Two Pass Cross Sectional Regression) framework, one begins with a beta pricing model such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) or Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT). In the first step, timeseries regressions of asset returns on risk factors are used to estimate the factor sensitivities, or betas, of the assets. In the second step, cross-sectional regressions of asset betas on asset returns are used to estimate the excess returns on factor mimicking portfolios and the zero beta return [Fama (1976)]."

and i'll add that I hope very much she understands what is going on there, else she doesn't have much of a hope

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It's a shame everyone on here is so up themselves :rolleyes: I suppose you have never misjudged how much time you require to do / learn something?

If you had any sense you would realise that I am only requesting for help from someone who does understand it- because I care about how my girlfriend feels and want to help her out of a situation she didn't exactly choose to be in.
 
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It's a shame everyone on here is so up themselves :rolleyes: I suppose you have never misjudged how much time you require to do / learn something?

If you had any sense you would realise that I am only requesting for help from someone who does understand it- because I care about how my girlfriend feels and want to help her out of a situation she didn't exactly choose to be in.
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And if you had any sense you'd realise that it's too late to help.
 
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If you had any sense you would realise that I am only requesting for help from someone who does understand it- because I care about how my girlfriend feels and want to help her out of a situation she didn't exactly choose to be in.
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No offense but if the exam is tomorrow its not going to do much good anyway - She'd be much better off simply going over a past paper or two than asking for bits of info from a random person on the internet - if you don't know the subject now then it will be pretty tough to learn in one night - better to concentrate on stuff she does know and how to answer those questions well - remember lecturers are pushed for time and often recycle questions (or versions of them) when preparing exams. Anyway thats my top tip and it certainly worked for me when I hadn't done enough work on a module.
 
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