It will be up to the participant's home institution to decide how many credits will be awarded, but the BSE Summer School office will:
Participants who wish to join the Summer School under this scheme will be asked to request ECTS during the standard application process.
The deadline to confirm your seat on the courses and to apply for credits recognition, is June 1, 2023.
Upon conclusion of the Summer School, assessments will be graded, and transcripts sent to participants in a timely manner. It will be the responsibility of the students to contact the Registrar/Academic Secretary/Study Abroad Office of their home institutions to check how the hours completed and the grades obtained can be transferred into official credits.
Participants not interested in credit transfer will instead receive a Certificate of Attendance, stating the courses and number of hours completed. These students will be neither evaluated nor graded.
Requisites:
The assessments will be graded on an A - F basis, based on the following scale:
9.5 - 10 = A+ (Extraordinary Achievement)
9.0 - 9.4 = A (Outstanding)
8.0 - 8.9 = A- (Excellent)
7.5 - 7.9 = B+ (Very Good)
7.0 - 7.4 = B (Good)
6.0 - 6.9 = B- (Good)
5.0 - 5.9 = C (Pass)
4.0 - 4.9 = D (Fail)
0 - 3.9 = F (Fail)
Select a program to view its assessment type and credit equivalencies.
Assessment type:
Students will deliver a short summary of a paper one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist of a critical summary of a published paper, around 3.4 pages, 1.5-spaced, font size 11. The critical summary will need to follow these guidelines: expose what are the main ideas of the paper, how they are addressed, strengths and weaknesses of the paper, methodological approach, theoretical or empirical background, and suggestions for improvements.
Assessment type:
Students will deliver a short final project one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist in solving a final problem that will include the practical and empirical issues worked on in class.
Assessment type:
Students will deliver a short research proposal one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist of 3-4 pages, 1.5 spaced, font size 11, with a clear research question, a motivation (introduce the question and its policy relevance), a discussion of the existing literature and how your paper relates to that, and an explanation on how you would approach the questions (empirical strategy and/or theoretical model).
Assessment type:
Students will deliver a short research proposal one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist of 3-4 pages, 1.5 spaced, font size 11, with a clear research question, a motivation (introduce the question and its policy relevance), a discussion of the existing literature and on how your paper relates to that, and an explanation on how you would approach the questions (empirical strategy and/or theoretical model).
The project will be graded on an A, B, C, D, F basis.
Energy Economics Summer School
Requisites:
Students will deliver a problem set one week after the summer school finishes. The problem set will require students to develop one of the open questions that are proposed at the end of each practical session, develop the idea and analysis in around 3-4 pages, 1.5 spaced, font size 11. Students will need to provide the accompanying code.
Assessment type:
Corporate Finance
Grading will be based on the presentation of business case studies discussed in class.
Fixed Income and Interest Rate Derivatives
An exam will take place during the afternoon session of the last day. The exam will consist of general questions covering the basic contents of the course.
Hedging Strategies with Equity and Commodity Derivatives
An exam will take place during the afternoon session of the last day. The exam will consist of general questions covering the basic contents of the course.
Advanced Portfolio Management
An exam will take place during the afternoon session of the last day. The exam will consist of general questions covering the basic contents of the course.
Assessment type:
Students will deliver a short summary of a paper one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist in a critical summary of a published paper, around 3-4 pages, 1.5-spaced, font size 11. The critical summary will need to follow these guidelines: expose what are the main ideas of the paper, how they are addressed, strengths and weaknesses of the paper, methodological approach, theoretical or empirical background, and suggestions for improvements).
Assessment type:
Students will deliver a short final project one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist in solving a final problem or assignment that will include the practical and empirical issues worked on in class. The project will be graded on an A, B, C, D, F basis.
Assessment type:
Students will deliver a short final project one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist in solving a final problem or assignment that will include the practical and empirical issues worked in class.
Assessment type:
Students will deliver a problem set one week after the summer school finishes. The problem set will require students to develop one of the open questions that are proposed at the end of each practical session, develop the idea and analysis in around 3-4 pages, 1.5-spaced, font size 11. Students will need to provide the accompanying code.
For a BSE's transcript equivalent: 1 ECTS per summer course (10 hours of lecture)
Assessment type:
In the courses ``Randomized Control Trial (RCTs) in Development Economics: Design and Data Analysis’’ and ``Complex Network Analysis: Tools for Development Economics,” students will be evaluated with problem sets . In the course ``Geospatial Tools for Development: Data and Inference,” students will deliver a short research proposal one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist of 3-4 pages, 1.5 spaced, font size 11, with a clear research question, a motivation (introduce the question and its policy relevance), a discussion of the existing literature and on how your paper relates to that, and an explanation on how you would approach the questions (empirical strategy and/or theoretical model).
For a BSE's Transcript equivalent: 1 ECTS per summer course (10 hours of lecture)
Assessment type:
Students will deliver a short final project one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist of solving a final problem that will include the practical and empirical issues worked on in class.
No re-takes and no deadline extensions are possible. Students can ask for a review of the grade obtained within the following 15 days (calendar days) after the grades are sent by email.
Academic integrity is violated with any activity that is likely to undermine the integrity essential to scholarship and research. It includes plagiarism, collusion, fabrication or falsification of results, and anything else that is intended to achieve credit for those committing it that they do not properly deserve.
Plagiarism is the presentation of the ideas, work or words of other people without proper, clear and unambiguous acknowledgement. It also includes the submission, in whole or in part, of a student’s own work — ‘self-plagiarism’ — where, for example, such work may have been previously submitted for a different assessment.
Collusion occurs when a student or students collaborate inappropriately or illicitly with another student or students with the intention of improving the mark or grade of an individual or group.
Fabrication or falsification of data or results by individual students or groups of students is the presentation or inclusion in assignments of figures or data unsupported by verifiable or documented programs of research; this may or may not additionally involve instances of plagiarism and/or of collusion.
If a student’s work violates the standard of academic integrity, the penalty imposed will be a mark of zero for the entire summer school.
Remember that you can combine courses from more than one BSE Summer School program (schedule permitting).
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