Economics Senior Celebration

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  1. 2. Which faculty member won the 2017 The William H. and Frances S. Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching
  2. 6. Dean of the Tepper School of Business
  3. 8. Tendency to judge the frequency or likelihood of an event by the extent to which it resembles the typical case
  4. 11. Co-Author of “Adapting to Climate Change: Evidence from Long-Run Changes in the Temperature-Mortality Relationship in the 20th Century United States
  5. 12. Who is the head of the Economics Program
  6. 13. Ballot that stockholders use to vote shares
  7. 15. Measurement of responsiveness of an economic variable to a change in another variable
  8. 18. Jeff Bezos’s new BFF
  9. 19. In the Solow Growth Model, production growth rate declines as __________ accumulates
  10. 20. Honorary Advisor to the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies of the Bank of Japan
  11. 21. Informal understanding that governs behavior in a society
  12. 22. Number of CMU affiliated Nobel Laureates in Economics
  13. 24. Process of determining the present value of a payment or a stream of payments that is to be received in the future
  14. 25. A set of assumptions designed to simplify the world and make it more understandable in order to address a specific question
  15. 27. Difference between prices that asset sellers demand and buyers require
  16. 28. Served as chief economist and director of the SEC' s Office of Economic Analysis (2004 to 2007)
Down
  1. 1. In 1995 (the year many of you were born), this movie was released and was the first ever full length computer animated feature film
  2. 3. Econometric term for the correlation between independent variables and the error terms
  3. 4. The largest eigenvalue (also known as the characteristic value) of a positive matrix
  4. 5. A deviation between the observed data and the restrictions on variables imposed by set of first order conditions of a Pareto optimal competitive equilibrium
  5. 7. Alternative to expected utility theory. Utilities are defined over losses and gains rather than over final wealth levels
  6. 9. When a good/service becomes more valuable the more people use it
  7. 10. Risk to the financial system
  8. 14. _______ multipliers are interpreted as the imputed value or shadow prices of inputs for production
  9. 16. Which faculty member published a paper called “Local Economic Growth from Primary Election Spending”
  10. 17. Which faculty member was an Economist with the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore
  11. 23. Akerlof’s paper “The Market for Lemons” describes how asymmetry of information leads to ________ selection
  12. 26. Type of function that is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute