ECON302 INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS II

Course Code:3110302
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):4 (3.00 - 2.00)
ECTS Credit:6.0
Department:Economics
Language of Instruction:English
Level of Study:Undergraduate
Course Coordinator:Prof.Dr. ERDAL ÖZMEN
Offered Semester:Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, the student will learnthe concepts of :

  • heteroscedasticiy
  • autocorrelation
  • simultaneous equations
  • dynamic models and
  • time seies modelling

Course Content

Dummy Variables: testing structural change, estimating the prediction error variance, seasonal adjustment and pooling cross-sectional and time-series data. Lagged Variables: the polynomial distributed lag and the geometric distributed lag. Autocorrelation and heteroscedasticity. Simultaneous equations; identification and single-equation estimation.


Course Learning Outcomes

Student, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:

  • carry out diagnostic checks of econometric modelling
  • use of simultaneous equations
  • use of dynamic models and time series modelling