Carney Curve

Boston College course evaluations · every published number, ranked class by class

Top of the board1.ECON 9902962.LAWS 8856973.PRTO 3300984.BSLW 2299975.PHIL 4932986.LAWS 8308987.SCWK 9960998.EESC 99011009.MUSP 16609610.UGMG 10109811.UNCP 55119712.SCWK 883197

Positions account for how many records stand behind each number, so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. Every score shown is the real average — only the ordering is adjusted.

Class record · ECON · MCAS

ECON 2246

Impact of News on Financial Markets · 1 instructor on record · 8 sections

What the course score is made of
70BC evaluations8 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2022 – Spring 2026
—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute
—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

That is the class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it. Who taught it, and how each of them scored, is the board below — that is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between.

What the challenge rank is made of
56thMore challenging than 56% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
91BC — “Intellectually Challenging”8 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.

What the workload rank is made of
47thMore work than 47% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
57BC — “Workload”8 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.

The impact of news on financial markets is examined in this course. More specifically, this course studies how Central Banks and Financial Markets react to economic and financial news. Using tools of economics and finance, the impact of macroeconomic data releases, business and financial news, as well as domestic and global political news on the financial markets will be measured and evaluated in this course. It further examines how the markets, including bonds, equities, commodities and foreign exchange markets, react to the news.

The only instructor on record

8 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record
InstructorOverallWorkloadChallengeRMP overall
Hossein KazemiAdjunct Professor · Economics748 records47th56th404 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Hossein Kazemi is the only instructor with evaluation records for ECON 2246, so the number is a record, not a position. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Hossein Kazemi

3 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
ECON 3324Money and Financial Markets110 records73
ECON 3361Monetary Theory and Policy24 records79
ADEC 7390Empirical Money and Banking12 records51

Other ECON classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
ECON 1101Principles of Economics46223 records73
ECON 2228Econometric Methods33131 records71
ECON 1151Statistics2797 records72
ECON 2202Macroeconomic Theory2072 records69
ECON 2201Microeconomic Theory1967 records71
ECON 9900Third Year Thesis Workshop1440 records91

The line

All 13 items · means across 8 records
The Professor4 items
Clearly Explains MaterialThe instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.
8513th pctl
Available Outside of ClassThe instructor was available for help outside of class.
783rd pctl
Brings Out Your Best WorkThe instructor motivated me to do my best work.
8411th pctl
Sparked My InterestThe course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.
9025th pctl
The Course3 items
Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.
713rd pctl
Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.
733rd pctl
Useful Beyond the CourseWhat I learned is applicable beyond this course.
9141st pctl
Assignments & Feedback3 items
Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.
819th pctl
Gives Feedback PromptlyI received feedback on my work in a timely manner.
756th pctl
Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.
722nd pctl
Workload, difficulty & attendanceNot ratings
WorkloadHow much work the course took outside class, on Boston College's five-band scale — the band boundaries are not published, so this is not a number of hours.
5747th pctl
Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.
9156th pctl
Attendance MattersAttending class was necessary to do well in this course.
9784th pctl

Bar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.

Game log

8 sections · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Hossein KazemiSpring 202601767860
Hossein KazemiFall 202501898660
Hossein KazemiSpring 202501858060
Hossein KazemiFall 202401716640
Hossein KazemiSpring 202401806660
Hossein KazemiFall 2023015755—
Hossein KazemiSpring 202301616860
Hossein KazemiFall 202201706260

How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.