no/poor citations and/or no reference list and if your assignment word length is beyond the allowed word length. h. You are expected to use clear and effective English in your writing. All grades on your written assignment will be based on expression, as well as on content. You should provide details to support your claims and arguments. Your answers, therefore, should be carefully edited for grammar, typos, and/or spelling mistakes. Academic Integrity: Avoiding Plagiarism, Collusion And Other Issues It is important to adhere to high standards of academic integrity. Academic integrity refers to ethical, honest and responsible conduct in writing and reporting. Breaches of academic integrity include: a. Plagiarism - submitting another person's words or ideas as your own without appropriate acknowledgement and referencing. b. Collusion - submitting work as if it is one's own when it has been completed with others. c. Fabrication - submitting work with results or data that do not exist and that have been made up. d. Double submission - submitting the same piece of work for more than one subject or by more than one person. You may collaborate in working out how to run the estimations on Stata. However, you are required to write up your report independently, and I will require a separate and independent submission from each person. Please come and ask if you are experiencing difficulties. Good luck! Prof. Elvis Cornerstone Important Assignment Instructions a. All questions must be answered in a Microsoft word format. Assignment presented in any other format aside from word will be rejected. b. A table of content showing the paging of assignment. A cover page with your name, index number, course name and code as well as word count. c. The required word length for this assignment is 2500 words. (plus or minus \10 excluding executive summary) d. Appropriate paragraphing of work; Font type - Times New Roman; Font size - 12; Line spacing -1.5 e. Justify the write up (i.e., alignment on Microsoft Word) f. Appropriate citations should be provided using the American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style (which includes in-text citations plus a reference list). All references must be from credible sources such as books, industry related journals, magazines, company documents and recent academic articles. g. Note that you are required to use 6-14 references (in-text with full reference details in the reference list). Your grade will be adversely affected if your assignment contains The following information concerns the preparation of your assignment for the Financial Econometrics module. The aim is to write an academic paper (informative and formal) by analysing the data provided using the statistics knowledge acquired so far in the module. For this assignment/exam, your aim is to explore the following research question: \"What determines profitability of European banks?\" 1) You are expected to write the research work on your own. 2) You have to use the data set for European banks (\"eurozone.xls\") available on the school's portal. The data relates to various characteristics of the individual banks. 3) You are free to use any of the variables provided as long as your analysis is meaningful and tackles the research question. Please note that you should use the statistics you believe more appropriate for best describing the data set. 4) Please do not include raw data at the end of the paper since this would only waste paper. However, you should forward to me, by e-mail, the data you have selected from the original data set to prepare your assignment. The following information concerns the preparation of your assignment for the Financial Econometrics module. The aim is to write an academic paper (informative and formal) by analysing the data provided using the statistics knowledge acquired so far in the module. For this assignment/exam, your aim is to explore the following research question: \"What determines profitability of European banks?\" 1) You are expected to write the research work on your own. 2) You have to use the data set for European banks (\"eurozone.xls\") available on the school's portal. The data relates to various characteristics of the individual banks. 3) You are free to use any of the variables provided as long as your analysis is meaningful and tackles the research question. Please note that you should use the statistics you believe more appropriate for best describing the data set. 4) Please do not include raw data at the end of the paper since this would only waste paper. However, you should forward to me, by e-mail, the data you have selected from the original data set to prepare your assignment. Assignment Structure There are different formats which could be used for this assignment but you may consider the following structure below for your work: - Abstract - Table of Contents - Aims and Objectives - Review of relevant literature and theory. - Methodology and Data (including the definition of variables) - Results and Discussion - Conclusions and recommendations - References - Appendices (additional relevant material) Further instructions Your submission should include an appendix of the printouts of your Stata do-file (if applicable) and your Stata output. Your written report should contain all relevant estimation and hypothesis test results (as if you were writing for a journal article). Marks will be awarded for presentation, and you are encouraged to devise informative means for presenting the results, including tables where appropriate. no/poor citations and/or no reference list and if your assignment word length is beyond the allowed word length. h. You are expected to use clear and effective English in your writing. All grades on your written assignment will be based on expression, as well as on content. You should provide details to support your claims and arguments. Your answers, therefore, should be carefully edited for grammar, typos, and/or spelling mistakes. Academic Integrity: Avoiding Plagiarism, Collusion And Other Issues It is important to adhere to high standards of academic integrity. Academic integrity refers to ethical, honest and responsible conduct in writing and reporting. Breaches of academic integrity include: a. Plagiarism - submitting another person's words or ideas as your own without appropriate acknowledgement and referencing. b. Collusion - submitting work as if it is one's own when it has been completed with others. c. Fabrication - submitting work with results or data that do not exist and that have been made up. d. Double submission - submitting the same piece of work for more than one subject or by more than one person. You may collaborate in working out how to run the estimations on Stata. However, you are required to write up your report independently, and I will require a separate and independent submission from each person. Please come and ask if you are experiencing difficulties. Good luck! Prof. Elvis Cornerstone Important Assignment Instructions a. All questions must be answered in a Microsoft word format. Assignment presented in any other format aside from word will be rejected. b. A table of content showing the paging of assignment. A cover page with your name, index number, course name and code as well as word count. c. The required word length for this assignment is 2500 words. (plus or minus \10 excluding executive summary) d. Appropriate paragraphing of work; Font type - Times New Roman; Font size - 12; Line spacing -1.5 e. Justify the write up (i.e., alignment on Microsoft Word) f. Appropriate citations should be provided using the American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style (which includes in-text citations plus a reference list). All references must be from credible sources such as books, industry related journals, magazines, company documents and recent academic articles. g. Note that you are required to use 6-14 references (in-text with full reference details in the reference list). Your grade will be adversely affected if your assignment contains The following information concerns the preparation of your assignment for the Financial Econometrics module. The aim is to write an academic paper (informative and formal) by analysing the data provided using the statistics knowledge acquired so far in the module. For this assignment/exam, your aim is to explore the following research question: \"What determines profitability of European banks?\" 1) You are expected to write the research work on your own. 2) You have to use the data set for European banks (\"eurozone.xls\") available on the school's portal. The data relates to various characteristics of the individual banks. 3) You are free to use any of the variables provided as long as your analysis is meaningful and tackles the research question. Please note that you should use the statistics you believe more appropriate for best describing the data set. 4) Please do not include raw data at the end of the paper since this would only waste paper. However, you should forward to me, by e-mail, the data you have selected from the original data set to prepare your assignment. The following information concerns the preparation of your assignment for the Financial Econometrics module. The aim is to write an academic paper (informative and formal) by analysing the data provided using the statistics knowledge acquired so far in the module. For this assignment/exam, your aim is to explore the following research question: \"What determines profitability of European banks?\" 1) You are expected to write the research work on your own. 2) You have to use the data set for European banks (\"eurozone.xls\") available on the school's portal. The data relates to various characteristics of the individual banks. 3) You are free to use any of the variables provided as long as your analysis is meaningful and tackles the research question. Please note that you should use the statistics you believe more appropriate for best describing the data set. 4) Please do not include raw data at the end of the paper since this would only waste paper. However, you should forward to me, by e-mail, the data you have selected from the original data set to prepare your assignment. Assignment Structure There are different formats which could be used for this assignment but you may consider the following structure below for your work: - Abstract - Table of Contents - Aims and Objectives - Review of relevant literature and theory. - Methodology and Data (including the definition of variables) - Results and Discussion - Conclusions and recommendations - References - Appendices (additional relevant material) Further instructions Your submission should include an appendix of the printouts of your Stata do-file (if applicable) and your Stata output. Your written report should contain all relevant estimation and hypothesis test results (as if you were writing for a journal article). Marks will be awarded for presentation, and you are encouraged to devise informative means for presenting the results, including tables where appropriate