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Started by Kiririn-shi, Sep 05 2006 03:58 AM

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Posted 24 December 2006 - 11:42 PM

I guess your talking about the US...Anyway the most obvious is the stock market crash in 1929. Which made Stocks and bonds worth nothing.

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Posted 25 December 2006 - 02:15 AM

Correct.Score board:Red Anvil - 16Hagi - 2Theme #5: Economics HistoryIV.10. What policies Roosevelt take to fight the crisis? (2 points)

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Posted 25 December 2006 - 05:14 AM

Let's see...He formed the Reforestation Relief act, to make jobs for younger people and formed the CCC which created many jobs for the unemployed people. He created Tennennesse Valley Act, and security announcements had to be made to the FTA.

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Posted 25 December 2006 - 08:08 AM

Correct.Score board:Red Anvil - 18Hagi - 2Theme #5: Economics HistoryIV.11. What is the largest stock exchange in the world? (2 points)

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Posted 25 December 2006 - 08:29 AM

That would be the New York Stock Exchange (in dollar value)

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Posted 25 December 2006 - 08:50 AM

Correct.Score board:Red Anvil - 20Hagi - 2Theme #5: Economics HistoryIV.12. What is the largest European stock exchange? (2 points)

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Posted 25 December 2006 - 12:40 PM

The London Stock Exchange

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Posted 25 December 2006 - 02:58 PM

Correct.Score board:Red Anvil - 20azntoast - 2Hagi - 2Theme #5: Economics HistoryIV.13. Which three European stock exchanges merged to become the second largest in Europe? (2 points)

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Posted 25 December 2006 - 08:57 PM

Would that be the Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris markets, that created EURONEXT?

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Posted 26 December 2006 - 01:50 AM

Correct.Score board:Red Anvil - 22azntoast - 2Hagi - 2Theme #5: Economics HistoryIV.14. Who is Adam Smith? (1 point)

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Posted 26 December 2006 - 05:05 AM

Erm... He wrote The Wealth of Nations, one of the major literary works that studied industry and development in Europe.whics partially began the ideas of Free Trade and Capitilsm.

That's his signifigance...

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Posted 26 December 2006 - 05:37 AM

Correct.Score board:Red Anvil - 23azntoast - 2Hagi - 2Theme #5: Economics HistoryIV.15. Who is the father of socialism/communism? (1 point)

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Posted 26 December 2006 - 06:05 AM

I was taught that that was Karl Marx. But I could be wrong...

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Posted 26 December 2006 - 08:50 AM

Correct.Score board:Red Anvil - 24azntoast - 2Hagi - 2Theme #5: Economics HistoryIV.16. What does Econometrics deal with? (2 points)

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Posted 26 December 2006 - 04:33 PM

Well it's math analyasis and stats...It is used to disprove false Economic Theories.

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Posted 26 December 2006 - 06:58 PM

Not exactly. It's a cross between economics and statistics. It is used to prove or reject economic theories, not only disprove.Score board:Red Anvil - 26azntoast - 2Hagi - 2Theme #5: Economics HistoryIV.17. What does GRS mean in the domain of mean variance efficiency testing? (2 points)

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Posted 26 December 2006 - 07:38 PM

My bad I meant economics not anaylisis :PAnyway I think GRS=Ground Reference Station...

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Posted 27 December 2006 - 03:12 AM

Sorry, it is not the answer.

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Posted 28 December 2006 - 01:59 AM

it's Gibbons, Ross and Shanken?Red Anvil: you mean Global Reference System?

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Posted 28 December 2006 - 10:33 AM

Correct.Score board:Red Anvil - 26Hagi - 4azntoast - 2Theme #5: Economics HistoryIV.18. What is Stephen Ross most known for? (2 points)

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Posted 28 December 2006 - 11:00 AM

He gave a lecture of the Princeton Lectures in Finance

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Posted 28 December 2006 - 11:30 AM

Not really an achievement... he contributed greatly to the financial academics, what was his main contribution?

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Posted 28 December 2006 - 05:25 PM

I thought you didn't like neo-classicism...Anyway, he initiated arbitrage pricing theory and he helped to create the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model for interest rate dynamics.