Late Assessment Submission Penalty (written assessments)

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day if a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). For example, for an assessment worth 30%, you receive a mark of 20/30 but your submission is late for 20 hours. With the late submission penalty applied, you will get a mark of18.5/30 (20-5%*30%).

After the 7th day, a grade of ‘0’ will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical concern.

For any late submissions of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, students need to submit an application for Special Consideration.

Delivery 

The intended delivery mode is as per the timetable: Publish. If this link does not work, enter: https://publish.mq.edu.au/ into your browser. 

Resources

The prescribed textbook for the unit is:

Brooks, C. (2019) Introductory Econometrics for Finance, 4th Edition, Cambridge University Press.  Hurn, S., Martin, V. L., Yu, J., and Phillips, P. C.B. (2020), Financial Econometric Modeling, Oxford University Press.

In addition to the textbook, the following references are useful but are not required.

Diebold, F. (2007) Elements of Forecasting, 4th Edition, South-Western College. Enders, W. (2014) Applied Econometric Time Series, 4th Edition, Wiley. Material such as lecture slides, examples, and tutorial questions will be available on the unit home page. The text and lecture notes, together with the lectures and additional references will provide students with a clear indication of the basic content of the unit.

It is recommended that students attend all lectures and tutorials for several reasons including:

Not all the material in the text is included in the unit, and not all the material in the unit is covered in the text. In some places the text deals with issues in greater depth than is necessary for the unit, and in other places it doesn’t go far enough. The lectures contain all the unit material taught at the level required for the assessment tasks, and are your guide to the unit content. The approaches to some problems that are recommended by the lecturer are different to those in the text. The lectures will include guidance about the style and content of the final exam and recommendation about study technique. It is difficult (and often impossible) for staff to provide meaningful assistance to students outside class times on topics for which they did not attend the relevant lectures and tutorials.

Technology Used and Required

Students are required to use a computer to carry out certain tasks of the course, such as tutorials and assignments. The software programs used in this course include EViews and Microsoft Excel. 

Unit Web Page

Course material is available on the learning management system (iLearn), which can be found at: http://ilearn.mq.edu.au.

The list below is a proposed study plan, but this may be modified as we progress through the semester to allow us to take more or less time with different sections of the course as required.