Tepper School of Business

 

 

ECONOMETRICS II

 

                                                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                     Professor Robert A. Miller  ramiller@cmu.edu  

 

                                                                                                                                     Teaching Assistants

Hoang-Anh Nguyen hoangann@andrew.cmu.edu

Yizhen Xi yizhenxi@andrew.cmu.edu

 

SYLLABUS

 

 

A.    INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL ECONOMETRIC MODELS

 

 

Monday October 23:               Overview

 

Wednesday October 25:          Job Matching and Turnover

 

Monday October 30                Continuous Choice in Competitive Equilibrium

 

Wednesday  November 1:       Human Capital and Durable Goods

 

Monday November 6:             Assignment 1 is due

 

B.    SMOOTHING THE DATA

 

Monday  November 6:            Linear Models

 

Wednesday  November 8:       Nonlinear Parametric Estimators

 

Monday  November 13:          Nonparametric Methods

 

C.    PROBABILITY  

 

 

Wednesday  November 15:     Probability and Convergence

 

Friday November 17               Assignment 2 is due

 

Friday November 17:              Laws of Large Numbers and Central Limit Theorems

 

Monday November 20:            NO CLASS

 

Sunday November 26               Assignment 3 is due

 

D.    ASYMPTOTIC THEORY FOR PARAMETRIC MODELS

 

 

Monday November 27:           Large Sample Properties of Extremum Estimators

 

Wednesday  November 29:     Asymptotic Efficiency

 

Monday December 4:             Testing Parametric Models

 

Wednesday December 6:         Review

 

Monday December 11:             Final in Class Examination

             

Wednesday December 13:       Assignment 4 is due