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ECO
7427: Econometric Methods II Department of Economics Spring 2009 Professor Sarah Hamersma Office: 304 Matherly Hall Phone: 846-1988 Class
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays,
9:35-11:30 (periods 3-4) Classroom: MAT 51 Office
Hours: Tuesdays 11:30-12:15 and Thursdays 8:30-9:30 or by appointment Credits:
3 * NEW * Here are
links to the final exams (in-class and take-home parts) from the last two
times I taught this course. Final Exam – In-class, Spring 2005 Final Exam – Take-home, Spring 2005 Final Exam – In-class, Spring 2007 Final Exam – Take-home, Spring 2007 Course description and objectives: The purpose
of this course is to help prepare you for empirical research by investigating
the use of a variety of econometric tools and practicing their implementation. It is critically important that we learn to
do this well, because when we “get it wrong” we may make flawed policy
recommendations or, more generally, profess that we have found “truth” that
is not true. If we think
of econometric methods as tools to do applied research, the goal of this
course is to help you learn to choose the right tools and use them
appropriately. To stretch the analogy,
I hope the course will help you avoid situations where you are trying to
pound a nail into a wall using the back end of a screwdriver – because that’s
hard to do and things don’t always turn out so well. |