Classes will be in person and on Zoom. I expect you to attend most classes in person, though. Classes September 21 and TBA will be Zoom only as I am out of town.
TA: William Bennett.    email: williamrobertbennett@protonmail.com
William have office hours TuTHu 11.30-1.00, or by appointment.
TA Session will be in person Friday in SR2 134 from 11:30am to 1:00pm.
No class: TBA if needed
Make-up classes: Monday Oct 31 in SR2 134 4pm-5:30pm
Exam Friday December 2nd.
SyllabusTwo midterms, Monday September 26th and Monday October 24th.
NOTE: There will be computer exercises using Matlab as part of the homeworks. NOTE: the computer exercises are at the heart of this course.
Material Covered 2020 (similar for 2021)
Notes:
Review of Maximum Likelihood (updated 2022).
Binary Choice Models Binary Choice (version 2022).
Short Introduction to Time Series. (How to work with time series model, unchanged from Macro II notes.)
Estimation of AR and MA models (revised 2021).
Truncation, censoring and selection.
(Similar to the coverage in the Davidson-MacKinnon book, but with more details. Small corrections 2022)
My 1992 JBES article on credit rationing. (Example of an ordered-sequential logit model.)
After covering the selectivity model, I will talk about my 2000 Journal of Econometrics article on portfolio demand. (Example of an multinomial discrete-continuous logit model.)
The following notes may be adjusted during the semester.
Note on Panel Data (important addition for unbalanced panels 2021)
Literature on clustered standard errors:
Bertrand, Dufflo and Mullainathan
Cameron and Miller: Guide to Cluster Robust Inference
(link to Cameron's WEB page which has the paper as well as Stata code and datasets)
Weak Instruments:
Class Notes on Weak Instruments (summarizes some of the surveys below, updates a little 2021)
Know the striking example in Nelson-Starz Journal of Business (1990)
Michael Murray's survey in Journal of Economic Perspectives 2006, (you should know the formulas on pp. 123-124 and the Stock- Yogo (2005) rule of thumb in footnote 8)
Most up-to-date survey on weak instruments Andrews, Stock, Sun (2018)
Local Average Treatment Effects (LATE) if we get to it (not 2019):
Derivation of simplest case in my paper in Quantitative Economics
GMM Notes part 1 (updated 2022 for more consistent notation)
GMM Notes part 2 (updated 2022)
GMM Notes part 3 (The first two pages are the most important. The theory is not going to be on exam.)
Class Handouts 2021 (I expect to use version of these, with small updates)
Statistics Notes     Aug 24
Newton Algorithm     Aug 26
Information Matrix Identity     Aug 26
Likelihood Dependent Variables     Sep 2
Short intro to duration models     (Updated Sep 2022)
Short intro to SURE estimation      (small corrections 10/6/21)
Short intro to Multivariate, Multinomial, Ordered and Sequential Probit/Logit Models     (updated Oct 21)
Short intro to identification in multivariate linear model    
Short intro to bootstrapping of critical values    
Short intro to robust cluster estimation of standard errors (some corrections 2022)    
Homework # Matlab Code Due
Homework 1     Pdf Code Wed Auguest 31
Homework 2       Wed September 7
Homework 3     Pdf MatlabAR-MA Code Wed September 14
Homework 4        Program code    Wed September 21
Homework 5        Program code         Wed October 5
Homework 6        Program code    Wed October 12
Homework 7       Program code for 2SLS, LIML..    Wed October 19
Program code panel estimation   
Homework 8       Program code for bootstrapping    Wed November 2
Program code for clustering   
Homework 9       Program code for weak IV         Wed November 9
Homework 10         Wed November 16
Homework 11         Mon November 28