Eviews

Applied Econometrics with Eviews

Jul 1 - Jul 26, 2002

Introduction

This four-week course (see class schedule), to be taught from July 01 to July 26, 2002. This course introduces the mainstream methods for estimating relationships among observed variables and for testing hypotheses about those relationships. We will apply these methods to economic relationships.

The objective of the course is to introduce participants to the power of econometric methods while also noting the limitations of those methods. While focus will be on formulation, estimation, and testing of econometric models, participants will also learn how to be "sophisticated consumers of statistical information." This last element is important as most of us will be reading the statistical work of others rather than conducting it ourselves.

To develop ability to use statistical and econometric software efficiently, we will try to combine every day's lecture with some exercises in the computer lab.