Advanced Econometrics

Course description and objectives

The goal of this course is to present advanced methods in econometrics for distributional analysis, regression and classification models.

Syllabus : pdf

Contents

Resampling Methods (slides1)

  • Pseudo-random generator

  • Monte Carlo experiments

  • Bootstrap method in regression

  • Permutation tests

Nonparametric Econometrics (slides2)

  • Kernel density estimation

  • Kernel method for regression

  • Smoothing splines

  • Generalized Additive Models (GAM)

  • Mixture models

Econometrics & Machine Learning (slides3)

  • General principle, overfitting and cross-validation

  • Ridge and Lasso regression

  • Random forests, boosting, support vector machine and neural networks

  • Model misspecification detection

  • Causal Machine Learning