will be required to read and analyze several empirical journal articles; gather and analyze data in assignments; and develop and test their own economic models in a final small-group project. Required readings and other materials: Introductory Econometrics‚ by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge (4th edition). Please note: I do not recommend that students purchase international editions or earlier editions of the textbook. Some of the material differs in these editions‚ including some of the end-of-chapter
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ECON2206‚ Introductory Econometrics‚ 2013 S1 Course Project 1. This project has a value of 15% of the total assessment. In addition‚ there is a teamwork component worth 5%. The teamwork mark will be based on the online self and peer assessment (see Teamwork Assessment section below). 3. Each group must submit one hard copy of the project and one online (soft) copy. 2. This project must be completed in a group of 3 or 4 students. The members of a group come from the same tutorial class. Groups
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University of Bristol School of Economics‚ Finance and Management Course: MSc Accounting‚ Finance and Management ECONM1012 Quantitative Methods Summery of “Beauty in the classroom: instructors’ pulchritude and putative pedagogical productivity” The report is written by Daniel S. Hamermesh‚ Amy Parker of analyzing the relationship between beauty and teaching productivity. Q1 (i) Command: regress Course_Eval beauty‚ robust OLS is a kind of method of estimating
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Quantitative Methods for Economics Tutorial 12 Katherine Eyal TUTORIAL 12 25 October 2010 ECO3021S Part A: Problems 1. State with brief reason whether the following statements are true‚ false or uncertain: (a) In the presence of heteroskedasticity OLS estimators are biased as well as inefficient. (b) If heteroskedasticity is present‚ the conventional t and F tests are invalid. (c) If a regression model is mis-specified (e.g.‚ an important variable is omitted)‚ the OLS residuals will show a distinct
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Self-Lab 2 - Use Your Hand University of Gothenburg Department of Economics Applied Econometrics (MSc.)‚ Fall 2013 Alpaslan Akay University of Gothenburg This is your second homework. It is a lab that you are going to do it alone again. In the first lab you have learned how to operate Stata and calculate descriptive statistics. You also read a paper with an interesting research question. Self-Lab 2 covers some topics of Lecture 2 and 3. In this lab you are going to learn how to calculate
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Instrumental variables and panel data methods in economics and finance Christopher F Baum Boston College and DIW Berlin February 2009 Christopher F Baum (Boston College) IVs and Panel Data Feb 2009 1 / 43 Instrumental variables estimators Regression with Instrumental Variables What are instrumental variables (IV) methods? Most widely known as a solution to endogenous regressors: explanatory variables correlated with the regression error term‚ IV methods provide a way to
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Assignment 2 This assignment is based on the data set in “CHARITY.RAW”‚ see also tutorial exercises C2.7 and C7.14. The definitions of variables are in the file “CHARITY.DES”. To examine what influence individuals’ decisions on donations‚ the linear regression model respond = β0 + β1 resplast + β2 avggift + β3 propresp + β4 mailsyear +u is used. For hypothesis-testing questions‚ please always present hypotheses‚ test statistic and its distribution under the null‚ decision rule and conclusion
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Financial and Economic Forecasting The Civilian Unemployment Rate By: Doug Hanig Due: 5/15/12 Doug Hanig Professor Hecht Finc-411 3/12/12 Part 1 A. Civilian Unemployment Rate (FRED Database) Government Agency: US Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor statistics B. The government would be interested in this forecast for many reasons. By forecasting the civilian unemployment rate‚ the government can have an idea of how stable
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economic climate increasing the focus on ROI‚ demands for proof are more pressing than ever. Microsoft Advertising‚ in partnership with econometric experts BrandScience‚ looked carefully at how the case for online driving offline sales can best be made. Our approach is Econometric Modelling‚ a technique used for over 25 years by FMCG businesses in the UK. Econometric Modelling provides a credible‚ cross-media view of marketing reflecting today’s media landscape. Our study included all of the media channels
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THE EVALUATION OF CREDIT RISKS OF MONGOLIAN BANKS USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK AND SELECTED ECONOMETRIC MODELS Battulga Otgonbaatar Manduhai Mendbayar Shurentsetseg Byambatsogt Institute of Finance and Economics of Mongolia/ Economic department Abstract The importance of optimal decision-making and precise predictions is not limited to banks only but also of importance to other financial institutions. Nowadays‚ financial markets are becoming increasingly uncertain and interdependent‚
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