ECON 617Applied Econometrics

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Prerequisites: ECON 616 or equivalent. Further development of econometric theory, combined with applications. The goal of the course is to expose students to a number of econometric modeling techniques for nonlinear econometric models, instrumental variables models, limited dependent variables models, and semi- and nonparametric models. Time permitting, the course will also introduce students to several additional topics such as resampling methods, treatment effects estimation, and machine learning. This course requires extensive computer applications.