Course Outline (Tentative and subject to change)

      S - Studenmund Text
      K- Kennedy Text
      E - Eviews (software)
      LA - Look At (for general information)
      Ex - Excel

Date
Topic
Material
(to be read before class)
Tuesday January 19, 2010 (Week 1) Introductions and Review of Statistics S - Chp 16
K-pp. v-10
1/25/10 (Week 2) Overview of Regression, Ordinary Least Squares

S-Chp 1,2
K-LA-Chp

2/1/10 (Week 3)

Learning to Use Regression Analysis
"Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics," Edward E. Leamer

2/8/10 (Week 4)

The Classical ModelResearch

Research Project Part A

S-Chp 4
K-LA-Chp 3
2/15/10 (Week 5)

2/15/10 Monday President's Day (no classes)

Hypothesis Testing
Dummy Variables

S-Chp 5

Assignment Two

2/22/10 (Week 6)

2/23/10, 2/25/10, 2/25/10 Tues, Wed, Thur No Class

Specification

S-Chp 6
K-LA-Ch 6
3/1/10 (Week 7)

Functional Forms

Research Project Part B

S-Chp 7
K-LA-Ch 6
3/8/10 (Week 8) Multicollinearity

S-Chp 8
K-Chp 12

3/15/10 (Spring Break)    
3/22/10 (Spring Break)    
3/29/10 (Week 9)

Empirical Text Example
Serial Correlation

S-Chp 9
Assignment Three

4/5/10 (Week 10)

4/5/10 Tues Undergraduate Conference No Class

Heteroskedasticity

Time Series Models?

Research Project Part C

S-Chp 10

4/12/10 (Week 11) A Regression User's Handbook

Assignment Four

Exam Two

4/19/10 (Week 12)

4/22/10 Thurs No Class

Research Project Part D

4/26/10 (Week 13) Dummy Dependent Variables

S-Chp 13

Assignment Five

5/3/2010 (Week 14) Simultaneous Equations S-Chp 14
5/10/2010 (Week 15) 5/11/10 Tues Last Day of Class
Research Project Due (including PPT)
5/12/10 Wed Reading Day
Review
5/15/2010

Saturday 9-11am Comprehensive Final Exam

 

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