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The Primary goal of the project is for students to gain comfort in using statistical software packages to conduct an empirical analysis of a particular firm. Specific goals are for students to (1) become familiar with sources of economic and financial information and in particular the Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) Database, (2) practice their writing skills, (3) develop hands on, statistical estimation and modeling skills using excel (e.g., data analysis, regression analysis). The project is an individual assignment and late submissions will not be accepted. Please provide explanations for answers to all questions.

Background material: Chapter 4, 5 in McGuigan, Moyer and Harris

PLEASE FIRST SELECT PUBLIC COMPANY TO ANALYZE. USING YOUR WEB BROWSER, ANSWER ALL OF THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW FOR THAT PARTICULAR COMPANY. THE CHOICE OF COMPANY IS UP TO YOU. BUT, PLEASE EMAIL ME TO LET ME KNOW OF YOUR SELECTION AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE ENOUGH DATA TO ANSWER ALL OF THE QUESTIONS. COMPANY SELECTION IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE. IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO KEEP THREE OR FOUR COMPANIES IN MIND BECAUSE YOU ARE TO FIND A COMPANY THAT HAS ENOUGH PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE DATA TO ANSWER EACH QUESTION. THERE IS NO NEED TO INCLUDE DATA OR SPECIFIC PROGRAMS USED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS, BUT, IN ALL YOUR RESPONSES, PLEASE INCLUDE EXPLANATIONS OF STEPS CARRIED OUT. IT IS OKAY TO WORK WITH OTHER PEOPLE, BUT YOUR EXPLANATIONS SHOULD BE IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

1. Data collection from WRDS database

Using your web browser, please go to the WRDS URL (http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu) and collect data on the variables for the risk free rate, small minus big, high minus low, and the excess market return for the firm your selected. When you collect the data, please select the monthly frequency and the range spanning from 1980 through 2017. Using your class notes and the descriptions provided by WRDS, please provide a brief description of each variable included in the study. Please save these variables in an excel spreadsheet. Please download and save stock prices for your firm spanning the same period and at the monthly frequency. Please compute stock price returns as the ratio of the change in the stock price for each period with respect to the previous period to the value in the previous period This will serve as the base case from which we will complete the rest of the project.

2. Regression Analysis

For this question, you will need the data analysis tool pack in excel, please download it to your version of excel for your operating system before answering the questions listed below.

• Please, separately, determine the estimated regression line for a regression with the stock return as the dependent variable and the following list as independent variables:
  • Excess market return
  • Small minus big
  • High minus low
• Please determine the estimated regression line with the stock return as the dependent variable and the risk free rate, excess market return, small minus big, and high minus low as the independent variables in one single regression model.
• Which regression coefficients are statistically significant? Is the overall model significant?
• What is the adjusted R-squared for the model? How does it compare to the adjusted R-squared for each model estimated in a? Is your answer to part b different from your answers to part a? Why or Why not?

3. Forecasting

• Using only data covering the period 1980 through 2000, please determine the estimated regression line with the stock return as the dependent variable and the risk free rate, excess market return, small minus big, and high minus low as the independent variables in one single regression model.
• Please use the model to predict stock price return from 2001 to 2017 and compute the root mean squared error using the deviation between the actual stock price return over this period and the model-predicted stock price return over the same period.

4. Discussion

Using your web browser and your own judgement and your class notes, please interpret and discuss the strength of the relationship between stock price returns for your firm and each of the three variables. In particular, please consider whether or not you think that the three variables do a good job in explaining and predicting stock returns for your firm. Please also explain why you think the model produced all results from questions 2 and 3 that it did.

I WOULD LIKE TO USE TESLA AS THE PUBLIC COMPANY

• The goal is to conduct an empirical analysis of a particular firm using statistical analysis and estimation.
• Requisite background material to complete the term project obtains from topics covered during.

Use standard formatting with:

• Double spacing,
• 11 or 12 point font (Times, Helvetica, Calibri, etc.),
• 1 inch margins,
• No more than 1 inch of space dedicated to title and header,
• No extraneous space between paragraphs or headers.
• 7-9 pages

You must cite all work that is not your own. You must include a references section in your paper. The references do not count toward the page limit. While you may use outside sources, you don’t need to do so to get a top grade.

You only need to mainly write about the notes that I’m going to upload and try to compliment them with the book. you do need to cite the lectures the name of the lecture is the paradox of democratic divergence and the professors name is Magagna.

Tasks of this assignment:

Imagine that the audience for this assignment is your immediate supervisor, who has assigned you the task of writing a literature review that will help your organization design a program or establish policies connected to your issue. At this point, your immediate supervisor knows a little about this topic, but she is unfamiliar with the key issues/thinkers/problems related to the research on your topic.

1. Write a roughly 4 page paper that includes:

• A brief introduction (about 1/2 page) that states your research question and has a thesis that identifies the two most significant themes shared by a majority (if not all) of your research studies. The thesis should also explain why readers should care about what you are writing.
• An incomplete section (identified by a subhead) that explores how the findings in one of your themes converge and/or diverge. Use your chart to help you figure this out.
• The subhead of this incomplete section should be called either Theme One: X (X being the theme you have identified)
• This incomplete section should include at least 5 of the 10 research studies evaluated in your literature review.
• This incomplete section should use APA in-text citations and avoid patchwriting and plagiarism.
• NOTE: This incomplete section is being identified as incomplete because you will be writing it before you have read all of your research and because what you are turning in for this assignment will be much shorter than what you turn in for your final paper.
• An APA style reference page that includes the sources discussed.
• At the beginning of your paper, add a “Dear reader” letter that is about 1/2 to 1 page long. The “Dear Reader” letter will help me give you meaningful feedback. Please answer the following information in your letter:
  • What are the strengths of your rough draft? What are the problems of your draft?
  • What were the challenges you encountered writing your draft?
  • What is your thesis?
  • If you had 2 more days to write this draft, where would you focus your attention?
  • What questions are you asking about your draft that you want to make sure I answer?
• Even though this goes at the front of your rough draft you should write this last.

You have to use this 5 articles together to write the paper and five of them about the same topic. School shooting

Writing as a marketing consultant for Fox Marketing Consulting, develop a no more than 4 page analysis (excluding references and appendices) of the current brand image of a product, service, or retailer.

As part of the research, “listen in” to what experts and consumers say about the brand in blogs, twitter, instagram and other review sites. Cite at least three sources of information (other than the company website and Wikipedia), and attach a list of references in APA format.

Use the information to develop at least two different brand perceptual maps, with a focus on comparing the intangible and brand personality aspects of the brand with (4 to 5) key competitors. Please note the dimensions chosen should be based on the characteristics CONSUMERS have chosen to focus upon; in other words, don’t use clearly measurable aspects (e.g.m price). Discuss the maps in the paper.

Conclude with broad implications and three clear recommendations for the brand. Recommendations are important and should be very carefully thought through. Recommendations could relate to how the brands are doing on social media and what are the things they could work on, how the brands are doing in the stores, the brand image of the brand etc.