ECON 609
Quantitative Economic Analysis
Course overview
You’ll be exposed to advanced economic research methods and economic modelling. Topics include the methodology of testing economic theories, specification analysis and model validation techniques and analysis of dynamic econometric models.
Course information
| Available semesters | Semester 2 2024 |
|---|---|
| Credits | 20 |
| Domestic fees | $1,383.00 |
What you will learn
After successfully completing this course, you’ll be able to:
- Understand principles of econometric techniques that are widely used in applied economic and financial research and acquire the foundation to further econometric studies.
- Estimate econometric models and test model adequacy in the presence of non-experimentally generated data and the uncertainty regarding the ‘true’ model specification.
- Formulate and test economic hypotheses in the statistical framework.
- Effectively use popular econometric software (Excel, Eviews and R).
Course examiners
Associate Professor Baiding Hu
Head of Department
Department of Global Value Chains and Trade
baiding.hu@lincoln.ac.nz