Extra Credit

Alan Guth PROBLEM SET 6 EXTRA CREDIT PROBLEM SET

EXTRA CREDIT: This problem set is not required, but can be turned in on the last day of classes or earlier, for up to three points of extra credit. The problem set includes 35 points of problems, which will be credited by muliplying your score by 3/35 and then increasing your final course grade by this amount. This extra credit assignment is an alternative to the extra credit paper that has alr...

CS 511 Extra Credit Study: Fall 2008 A Survey on Vertical Search in the Biomedical Domain

Earning extra credit. Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center extends its mission through partnerships with schools.

Registered nurse Kathleen Hunthausen, coordinator of Saint Alphonsus's School Health Program, brings health education to youths in five Catholic schools in Idaho. A s proof it has done its homework, Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, I D , is receiving good grades for a partnership with five local Catholic schools designed to meet students' health and spiritual needs. The School ...

Credit Search and Credit Cycles

The supply and demand of credit are not always well aligned and matched, as is reflected in the countercyclical excess reserve-to-deposit ratio and interest spread between the lending rate and the deposit rate. We develop a search-based theory of credit allocation to explain the cyclical fluctuations in bank reserves, the interest spread, as well as credit rationing. We show that search frictio...

Credit contagion and credit risk

We study a simple, solvable model that allows us to investigate effects of credit contagion on the default probability of individual firms, in both portfolios of firms and on an economy wide scale. While the effect of interactions may be small in typical (most probable) scenarios they are magnified, due to feedback, by situations of economic stress, which in turn leads to fatter tails in loss d...