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1. You are about to sit an online assessment You have a 24-hour period in which to complete this exam. This 24-hour period is the time during which you can arrange to take the exam. It is NOT the length of the exam. 2. Advice on the contents of the exam and technical support In case you should have questions about the contents of this paper, or you require technical assistance, please contact our virtual invigilation team at the University of Glasgow Helpdesk https://www.gla.ac.uk/help Questions relating to the contents of the paper should be raised within the first 3 hours of the assessment period, when an academic member of staff will be available to answer these. Technical support will be available 24 hours per day. To ensure timely responses and that all students receive the same information, you should not contact academic staff directly but instead use the Helpdesk. 3. Completing the exam paper It should take you no longer than 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete this exam and you should pay specific attention to guidance provided on the exam paper regarding the total word count. You should be able to complete the exam in the time indicated and are unlikely to derive major benefits from taking longer. Note that spending longer often leads to muddled answers which do not receive high grades. It is better to answer in a clear and concise fashion within the time limit given. 4. Time adjustments for students with disabilities If you have in the past been granted adjustments to your exam time, e.g. through the University’s Disability Service, allowance is made for these since you have a 24-hour period in which to complete this exam. 5. Enlarging the text In case you should need to enlarge the text of a PDF document: open Adobe Acrobat; click on the VIEW tab; click on ZOOM and then ZOOM TO; select the desired magnification level. Continued Overleaf/ 2 6. Planning your time When planning your time, you should allocate half an hour to download the exam paper and a further half hour to upload your answers to Moodle at the end of the exam. For students instructed to do so by their course, you should allow time to submit your exam script on Turnitin within the 24h period. This is important as these times give you the ability to report any problems within the 24-hour exam availability period. 7. Submitting your answers Acceptable file types for submitting typed documents are: DOC/DOCX; RTF; PDF; XLS/XLSX Acceptable file types for submitting high resolution images are: JPG; PNG; TIF; PDF In case you are unable to upload your answers to Moodle you may email them to: business-school-assessment@glasgow.ac.uk Submit (at least) one file per question. You may submit up to 20 files. Sub-questions may be submitted in one file according to question. Use the following naming convention: StudentID_CourseCode_QuestionNumber (e.g. 1234567_MGT1001_1). 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[By ticking this box, I declare the originality of my work.] Continued Overleaf/ 3 Students should answer ALL questions of EITHER Section A OR Section B (A total of THREE questions) Write a maximum of 1000 words in total for all questions excluding the references, equations, table and figures (The sum of the words of the answers to Question 1, Question 2 and Question 3 should be no more than 1000 in total) SECTION A You must answer all 3 questions, (Weighting noted beside each question). Considering the article: Blanchflower, D. G. and A. J. Oswald (2004). Well-being over Time in Britain and the USA. Journal of Public Economics 88 (7-8), 1359–1386 Answer the following questions: 1) Describe the main results and the methodology used in the paper. [33%] 2) What is the paper’s contribution in the field Economics of Happiness? [33%] 3) Discuss why the main results of the paper are very important for other fields of study in economics. You may refer to other contributions not present in the course’s reading list. [34%] [Total 100%] End of Paper 4 SECTION B You must answer all 3 questions (Weighting noted beside each question). Considering the article: McClure, S. M., D. I. Laibson, G. Loewenstein, and J. D. Cohen (2004). Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards. Science 306(5695), 503–507. Answer the following questions: 1) Describe the main results and the methodology used in the paper. [33%] 2) What is the paper’s contribution in the field of Neuro-Economics? [33%] 3) Discuss why the main results of the paper are very important for other fields of study in economics. You may also refer to other contributions not present in the course’s reading list. [34%] [Total 100%]