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Department of Economics

Schedule and Lecture Notes

Attending these lectures is recommended but not required. The aim is to help you with the skills required to write a simple but competent dissertation.

The primary focus will be to provide the computational tools to carry out your MSc Dissertation.

 

Research Methods Syllabus

 

Lecture-Date

Content

Auxiliar Files

Slides

1.- Wed Jan 18

 

 Dataset managment and Basic Data Analysis. (STATA)

 
Material

Intro+Prog_in_PDF

2.- Wed Jan 25

 

Standard econometrics Linear regression model:
Variation and Identification Issues (with a STATA example)
DO File

Handout+Prog in PDF

3.- Wed Feb 1

 

Standard econometrics Linear regression model II. Identification Issues and IV solutions (with a STATA example)

DO File

Handout+Prog in PDF

4.- Wed Feb 15

 

 Matrix manipulation, simulations and basic use of functions. (MATLAB)

MATLAB_File

5.- Friday, Feb 17
(Room ACCR, 4-6pm)

Basic optimization. (MATLAB)

 MATLAB Files

6.- Wed Feb 22

Writing Software: Latex.

LaTeX_Files

7.- Wed Feb 29

 

 Learning to write Economics (by John Nuttall)