IDEA. Econometrics

Materials

Slides and Handouts

Introduction to Matlab. Slides 1. Slides 2.

Hypothesis testing refresher

A brief Introduction to Stata

STATA: ML estimation. Slides. Do-file.

STATA: Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation. Do-file.

Computational Problem Sets

Computational Problem Set 1. OLS

Suggested Solutions: OLS function, OLS function with structures (Valeria and Orestis), Ex1, MC_unbiasedeness, MC_consistency, MC_asymptnorm

All previous m-files in one archive here

Computational Problem Set 2. Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation (due February 10)

Suggested Solutions: Problem1_main (p1), Problem2_main (p2),

Functions: OLS finction(olsq), FGLS function for heteroskedasticity (fglsq),

Cohrane_Orcutt FGLS for autocorrelation (Cohrane_Orcutt_GLS), Newey-West estimator (NeweyWest)

Tests: Heteroskedasticity (White (testwhite), Breusch-Pagan and Harvey-Godfrey (hettest)),

Autocorrelation BreuschGodfrey (BreuschGodfreyTest)

All previous m-files in one archive here

Computational Problem Set 3. Maximum Likelihood (due February 21). Data for the third problem: PSID_income.xls

Suggested solutions: Main file (PS3.m), Likelihood function (MLE_normal.m), OLS.m

All m-files in one archive here

Computational Problem Set 4. Non-linear estimation (due February 28). Data for the 4th problem set: Data_Fair_1978.xls

Analytical Problem Sets. Solutions.

Solutions to Problem Set 1

Solutions to Problem Set 2

Solutions to Problem Set 3

Brief Content of Classes

Class 1 (January 17)

Introduction to Matlab (Slides 1)

Class 2 (January 24)

Matlab. Optimization (Slides 2)

Class 3 (January 31)

Computer Problem Set 1. Hypothesis testing refresher. Basics of Stata

Class 4 (February 3)

Solve Analytical Problem Set 1

Class 5 (February 10)

Solve Computational Problem Set 2 and start Analytical Problem Set 2 (LĂ­dia will finish the APS 2 in her lecture).

Class 6 (February 17)

Finish Analytical Problem Set 2. Solve Analytical Problem Set 3

Class 7 (February 21)

Solve Computational Problem Set 3. Maximum likelihood estimation, heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation analysis in STATA.