Tepper School of Business

 

 

ECONOMETRICS II

 

                                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                                     Professor Robert A. Miller  ramiller@cmu.edu  

 

                                                                                                                                     Teaching Assistant

Minhyuk Nam minhyukn@andrew.cmu.edu

 

 

SYLLABUS

 

 

A.    INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL ECONOMETRIC MODELS

 

 

Monday October 20:             Continuous Choices

 

Wednesday October 22:        Discrete Choices

 

Thursday October 23:           Tutorial on Assignment 1

 

Monday October 27:             Principal Agent Models

 

 

 

B.    SMOOTHING THE DATA

Wednesday October 29:        Linear Models

 

Thursday October 30:           Assignment 1 is due

                                               Tutorial on Assignment 2

 

Monday  November 3:           Nonlinear Parametric Estimators

 

Wednesday November 5:       Nonparametric Methods

 

Thursday  November 6:         Assignment 2 due

                                              Tutorial on Assignment 3

 

 

C.    PROBABILITY  

 

 

Monday  November 10:          Probability and Convergence

 

Wednesday December 12:      Laws of Large Numbers and Central Limit Theorems

 

Thursday November 13:         Assignment 3 is due

                                               Tutorial on Assignment 4

 

         

 

D.    ASYMPTOTIC THEORY FOR PARAMETRIC MODELS   

 

 

Monday November 17:          Large Sample Properties of Extremum Estimators

 

Wednesday November 19:     Asymptotic Efficiency

 

Thursday November 20:        Assignment 4 is due

                                             

Monday November 24:          Hypothesis Testing

 

 

 

E.    WRAPPING UP  

 

 

Monday December 1:          Course review tutorial

 

Wednesday December 3:      In class examination

 

Thursday December 4:        Tutorial on Assignment 5

                                             

Sunday December 14:         Assignment 5 plus examination rewrite are due