Teaching

Fall 2025 - MFIN 290 Programming and Data Analysis for Business

Week 1 - Introduction to Python: Basic Commands in Python, Data Types and Structures, Lists, Dictionaries, Methods, Conditions and If-else statements, Iterations--for and while loops

Week 2 - Introduction to Numpy: Arrays and Matrices, Slicing, Numeric Functions; Introduction to Pandas: Series Objects, Dataframes

HW1

Week 3 - Reading and Filtering Data, Missing Data, Grouping, Stacking, and Merging, Folders and Functions

Week 4 - Preparing, Cleaning, and Analyzing Data (Part 1): Importing/Exporting Files, Creating Variables/Lagged
Variables/Indicator Variables, Missing Values, and Outliers.

HW2

Week 5 - Preparing, Cleaning, and Analyzing Data (Part 2): Simple Merging, Complex Merging, Adjusting Dates,
Computing Stock Returns and Forming Portfolios, Regression in Python.

HW3

Week 7 - Introduction to Web Scraping: Yahoo Finance Project.

Week 8 - Web Scraping Applications, Programming using AI Tools

Week 9 - Logistic Regression, Introduction to Machine Learning: Random Forest Classification, Random Forest Regression, Neural Networks Classification

Week 10 - Machine Learning with Textual Data, Introduction to Latent Dirichlet Allocation (Time Permitting)

Summer 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 - Econ 122A/B Applied Econometrics I, II

Stata data file available upon request

Week 1 - Nonlinear Regressions, Interaction Terms

Empirical exercise-Wage discrimination R script-file, Stata-do-file1, Stata_do_file2

Week 2 - Internal and External Validity, Panel Data Analysis, Fixed Effects Regressions

Empirical exercise-Murder rate R script-file, Stata-do-file

Week 3 - Binary Dependent Variable Model: Probit and Logit

Empirical exercise-Marriage R script-file, Stata-do-file

Week 4 - Two-Stage Least Squares IV Regression

Empirical exercise-Marriage R script-file, Stata-do-file

Week 5 - Experiments and Quasi-experiments, Diff-in-diff