CS/DSCI
What loop type runs until a condition fails to be met?
While Loop
How to find the local maximum or minimum of a smooth, continuous function?
Suppose cars are a substitute for SUVs. The EPA announces it will now require SUVs to install pollution control devices that will increase their cost. How will the equilibrium price and quantity for cars be affected?
What is both will increase?
A method of valuing a company intrinsically by forecasting future cash flows at their present value
Discounted Cash Flows (DCF)
What is UO's mascot's name?
Puddles
What is the name for the process of a function calling itself repeatedly to solve a smaller version of the same problem?
Recursion
In order to multiply Matrix A by Matrix B, the number of columns in Matrix A must equal this dimension of Matrix B
The number of rows
What branch of economics uses statistics and mathematics to test economic theories and forecast trends?
What is Econometrics?
This investment bank failed in 2008 and was subsequently sold to JPMorgan Chase in a government backed deal
Bear Stearns
What is the current President's least favorite Clash Royale Card?
Mega Knight
What type of tree structure ensures that for all nodes, the left children are smaller and the right children are larger?
Binary Search Tree
In regression analysis, this common metric tells you the percentage of the variance in your dependent variable
R-squared
Who is the 16th chair of the Federal Reserve?
Who is J Pow?
What is the main difference between an American and European option?
American options can be exercised before date of maturity
What college is the Clav frame mogger from?
ASU
What principle allows a subclass to take on the attributes and behaviors of it's parent class?
Inheritance
What vector is made up of all the first-order partial derivatives of a multivariable function?
How are the inflation rate and unemployment rate related?
What is Inversely?
This financial derivative contract allows buyers to make periodic payments to the seller in exchange for compensation (usually an exorbitant sum) only if a specified borrower defaults or experiences another defined credit event. This derivative played a massive role in the 2008 financial crisis.
Credit Default Swap (CDS)
What former Oregon senator has a building named after him on campus?
Wayne Morse
Random Access Memory (RAM)
In time series econometrics, a variable whose current value is exactly equal to its previous value plus a completely unpredictable shock is referred to as?
a random walk
What characteristics define stagflation?
What are high unemployment + high inflation rate?
What are the two main multiples used to compare firms with differing debt structures?
Acceptable answers: Price/Earnings (P/E), EV/EBITDA
What dance was popularized by Justin Jefferson? (You have to do it)
The Griddy