Advanced Microeconometrics (ECON7980)
Course level
Postgraduate Coursework
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Class hours
2 Lecture hours
2 Tutorial hours
Incompatible
ECON6300 or ECON7320
Recommended prerequisite
ECON3300 or 3310 or 3350 or 3360 or 7350 or 7360
Course enquiries
This course is not currently offered, please contact the school or faculty of your program.
Course description
This course concentrates on mainstream models and estimation and inference methods that are widely used in most empirical investigations in applied microeconomics. The course has a topics-based structure, and theory and applications are closely integrated. Topics include parametric and semi-parametric estimation methods applied to cross-section and panel data; treatment evaluation; models of cross-sectional dependence; quantile and mixture regressions; density estimation; Bayesian regression analysis.