Econ 4760/Econ 6760/ CIS 5846: Decision Theory I (Fall, 2008)

• Course policies and general course information
• Course outline (Be warned: this is a moving target!)
• Homework
• (Some) course notes

Breaking news:

• Dec. 7: Just a reminder: the ECON 4760/ ECON 6760/ CS 5846 final is on Thursday, Dec. 11, 7 - 9:30 PM. It will be in Baker Lab 119. We'll start right on time, so please don't be late. Here is the final we gave in 2004 and the solutions. Finally, here is the schedule for office hours next week:
  • Ian Kash's office hours on Monday have been extended to 3 - 4:30 PM on Monday
  • Prof. Blume will hold office hours on Tuesday; the time hasn't been determined yet.
  • Prof. Halpern's office hours are extended to 10:30 AM - noon on Wednesday morning
  • Prof. Easley's office hours are cancelled
  Good luck!
• Nov. 6: Question 7 is HW3 has been corrected (a t is replaced by 2t, which now makes the problem possible to solve!)
• Oct. 9: Note that Prof. Blume's office hours are *Tuesday* 5:15 - 6:45, not Monday, as it used to say (sorry for the confusion).
• Oct. 9: A few prelim-related comments:
  • Since the prelim will be held in class, we will try hard to start at exactly 2:55, so you get a full 75 minutes. Don't be late!
  • HW1 is graded. Grades and solutions are posted on CMS (https://cms.csuglab.cornell.edu/). Everyone who is registered for the course should have access. The homework will be returned in class today.
  • Although we won't have HW2 graded before the prelim, we will try to post soltuions in the next few days.
  • Here is the prelim that we gave the first time we taught the course, and here are the solutions. This prelim turned out to be a little harder than we had intended, but it does give you some idea of our expectations.
• The prelim will be held in class on Thursday, October 16. It will cover all material done in class up to spring break.