You must use Eviews to complete this assignment. You will submit both the Eviews file and the report.

What am I required to do in this assignment?

Requirements:

You must use Eviews to complete this assignment. You will submit both the Eviews file and the report. The report needs to be typed and presentable. The report must address each of the tasks below. Do not restate the questions in your report. Your report has to be understandable as a stand-alone piece of work without referring to the Eviews file. You can include the graphs/ tables/ estimation results from Eviews to address the questions, but do not details the process of how you create them. The process will be visible in the Eviews file.

In the Eview files, you need to save all the variables created, all the graphs, estimation outputs and hypothesis test results, with their names clearly identify the questions they address.

Tables, graphs, figures, estimation outputs, etc. need to be clearly labelled.

If you do not submit the Eviews file, you will automatically lose 50% mark of all calculation task. Calculation tasks that are not visible in Eviews will also lose 50% mark automatically.

Tasks:

Download the Excel file Data for assignment.xlsx. Sheet 1 contains historical prices of the S&P500 index, and the monthly US 3-month T-bill rate obtained from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The data is in monthly frequency. Sheet 2 contains the historical prices of different equity indices. You will be assigned a specific index to work with. Sheet 3 contains the monthly historical prices of 10 US firms listed on Nasdaq. Out of these firm, each of you will be assigned a different subset of 6 firms to work with.

1. Compute monthly simple return of S&P500 and of the index assigned to you. Plot the price and simple return of the two indices on two different graphs. Each graph represents one market, consists of the price and return of that market index. Using information from the graph, discuss briefly the main features of these time series and compare between two markets.

(10 marks)

2. Compute the monthly risk-free rate from the US 3-month T-bill rate. Plot the rate on a graph.

(5 marks)

3. Report the descriptive statistics for the simple return of S&P500 and your assigned indices, and the monthly risk-free rate computed from task 2. Discuss the difference between these three variables based on their descriptive statistics.

(15 marks)

4. Conduct the ADF test for the price and return on your assigned index, and on the return on S&P500. Report and discuss the results.

(10 marks)

5. Run the following regression:

Where is the simple return on the index assigned to you and is the lagged simple return on the S&P500.

a) Report the coefficients and their normal t-statistics and Newey-West t-statistics.

(5 marks)

b) Conduct the White test for heteroskedasticity. Report and explain the results.

(5 marks)

c) Reflect on the results obtained from a) and b), what can you conclude about the predicting power of the US stock market performance for the return of your assigned market index? Propose the reasons why the US stock market does or does not have high predicting power on your assigned index.

(10 marks)

6. Estimate the CAPM for the subset of 6 firms that is assigned to you in sheet 2:

Where is the excess return on firm , and is the excess market return.

a) Report all the alphas and betas and their corresponding t-statistics. Highlight the significant alphas and betas.

(20 marks)

b) Plot the betas against the average excess returns with the excess returns on the y axis.

(5 marks)

c) Test the hypothesis that the alphas are jointly zero. Report the test statistic and the p-value of the test.

(5 marks)

d) Reflect on the results you obtained from a), b) and c) and your acquired knowledge of the CAPM during the course, discuss if the CAPM works, or does not work for the subset of Nasdaq stocks that was assigned to you?

(10 marks)

explore this concept of implicit bias as it relates to race/ethnicity.

The discussion of the concept of implicit bias has been very prominent in the news, especially around the question of implicit bias toward people of color (esp. Black and Brown people and most recently Asian people). This week we will explore this concept of implicit bias as it relates to race/ethnicity.

We all have implicit attitudes as well as explicit attitudes?  I want you to chose an area that you might want to assess (1-Race, 2-Skin tone (light/dark), 3- Weight/body size, 4-Sexuality (gay, lesbian, bi-etc). Once you’ve chosen, answer this question:

What are implicit and explicit attitudes? How would you describe your explicit attitudes about race (or skin-tone, sexuality, weight-whichever topic you chose)?

 

 

elaborate on your perspective of a scholarly literature review. Discuss ideas that may enlighten and encourage your classmates regarding the process of writing a scholarly literature review. Also, include a word of encouragement from the Bible. 

Discussion Assignment Applied Research Instructions

The student will post one thread between 500 and 600 words. For each thread, students must support their assertions with at least 1 scholarly citation in APA format, if applicable. Each reply must incorporate at least 1 scholarly citation in APA format, if applicable.

Prompt: For this discussion board prompt, elaborate on your perspective of a scholarly literature review. Discuss ideas that may enlighten and encourage your classmates regarding the process of writing a scholarly literature review. Also, include a word of encouragement from the Bible. 

References

Claxton, B. & Michael, K., (2020). A step-by-step guide to conducting applied research in education. Kendall Hunt.

 

explore the positive possibilities of implementing regenerative agriculture in a large scale worldwide

This dissertation will be done in two parts. The first part will be half of the completed dissertation, 5,000 words (+/- 10%) for the first. I will review the first half and then submit the order for the second half of the dissertation to be completed.
-This assignment should only be accepted by a writer who can complete this during the time given.
-The link provided consist of the order the dissertation should be written. Please follow the exact structure from the link provided.
-Please only use google scholar for references and use a high amount of quality references throughout the dissertation.
-Create an original title for the dissertation. I would like the dissertation to explore the positive possibilities of implementing regenerative agriculture in a large scale worldwide, please feel free to make this assignment your own.

politics and popular culture : -You are to critically review two academic sources. i.e. Summarise, compare and contrast, critique.

-You are to critically review two academic sources. i.e. Summarise, compare and contrast, critique.

Assignment guidelines:

-You are permitted to have one academic source and another source such as a news article.

-The sources should offer contrasting perspectives on some aspect of the study of popular culture and politics. For example, the sources might disagree about the value of using popular culture to study politics, or they might disagree about the relationship between politics and popular culture. You could also examine perspectives about a particular piece of popular culture or maybe a political debate within popular culture (there have been many in recent times).

-The word count is 1000.

Do the following:

In the introduction (one paragraph ~100 words)

introduce your topic

introduce the sources (mention title and author)

briefly indicate the similarities and differences between the sources

provide your assessment of the sources (note which you prefer; although perhaps you prefer neither and have your own perspective). You can think of this part of the introduction as your thesis.

In the body

briefly summarise each source (brevity is key – the interest lies in the comparing and contrasting and the evaluation)

provide details about the similarities and differences between the sources, focussing on the differences (differences tend to be more interesting).

indicate which source you think is the most compelling and provide reasons. You might also argue that both sources are deficient and suggest a superior perspective.

don’t include a conclusion

Reference list

include a reference list with the two sources and any additional sources you draw upon.

provide your perspective about Privacy versus National Security.

For this assignment, provide your perspective about Privacy versus National Security. This is a particularly “hot topic” because of recent actions by the federal government taken against Apple. So, please use information from reliable sources to support your perspective.
This assignment should be 1.5 pages in length, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced on a Word document

Evaluate the Teleological argument for God’s existence and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses as an empirical argument.

Please pick one of the following questions to answer for the forum this week:

With reference to Pike’s article, how could it be said that Divine Omniscience challenges the idea that humans have free will?
With reference to Anselm’s Ontological Argument for the existence of God, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of his argument.
Evaluate the Teleological argument for God’s existence and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses as an empirical argument.

Examine analysis objectives for evaluation and re-design of organizational structures.

Examine analysis objectives for evaluation and re-design of organizational structures.
Instructions:
It is often difficult utilize sound reasoning and theoretical principles in stressful situations. In this assignment you will develop a change plan for the corporate headquarters of a large long term care organization. You will be moving from a traditional vertical (hierarchal) design to organizational structure (horizontal) to adapt to the rapid changes in consumer needs. This will also make several positions unnecessary.

What are the advantages of this change, what are the disadvantages?
Define what steps you could take to overcome this resistance to change.
In what ways can you identify individuals for promotion in this new structure?
Develop a plan (of at least 1 page) on the RIF (reduction in force), also known as a lay-off, that must occur after the organizations structural change. How will you decide which jobs will have to be eliminated, who will be in on the decision-making process, and how will you notify employees about your decisions? Remember that that horizontal organizations require less middle management not just fewer workers.

Your paper should comprise a title page, at least four pages of information, and a reference page with at least three professional sources .