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EC393B - Econometrics
Professor Michael Donihue
Email: Michael.Donihue@colby.edu

Meeting Times: Monday & Wednesday 1-2:15pm
Classroom: Diamond 141

Office Hours:
Mondays & Wednesdays 3-4pm; Tuesdays 1-2:30pm
Additional times by appointment.

TA: Nahita Nishmin

Syllabus
ec393syllabusspr08.pdf

Notices
First Exam: Tuesday, March 11th, 4pm
Second Exam: Thursday, April 17th, 7pm in Diamond 122

Third Exam Resources
exam3q1.wf1 Question #1 EViews file
exam3q2.wf1 Question #2 EViews file
exam3q3.dta Question #3 STATA file
  Codebook for the Lifestyle Survey
  DurbinHtest.xls (Excel spreadsheet)

Research Papers
Paper Guidelines
Suggestions for structuring your research
Key to variables in the EView workfile
EViews data file
Calculating marginal effects in EViews
STATA data file

Case Studies
Introduction to DLX and STATA
  lifestyle_happy1101.dta"
  importdata.dta
  spending.dta

Serial Correlation
  consumption_casestudy.wf1

Problem Sets
Problem Set #5   Answers
  stocks.wf1 EViews data set for problem set #5

Problem Set #4   Answers
  importdata.wf1 EViews data set for problem set #4

Problem Set #3  Answers
  hprice2.wf1 EViews data set for problem set #3
  wage2.wf1 EViews data set for problem set #3
  manufacturing.wf1 EViews data set for problem set #3

Problem Set #2  Answers
  Vitruvian0308.wf1 Eviews workfile
bballdrop.wf1

Problem Set #1  Answers
  ps01p40.xls Excel answers for problem #3
  Hint: See Kmenta p. 212

Resources
Textbook resources
A Guide to Econometrics (Colby Access Only)
DurbinHtest.xls MS Excel worksheet that performs a Durbin h-test

Sample Problems
Practice problems for proof of unbiasedness

Previous Exams
Exam #1 Fall 2003; Answers
Exam #2 Fall 2003; Answers
Exam #1 Fall 2004; Answers
Exam #2 Fall 2004; Answers




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