Kalman filter and applications as well as unit roots, cointegration, ARCH, and structural breaks models are studied, too. The construction, estimation, and testing of econometric models as a process, from theory to model formulation to estimation and testing and back again to theory. Bridging the gap between theory and applied work. A series of topics in macroeconomic time series and microeconomic cross-sectional analysis that include consumption at the household and aggregate level, commodity prices, and nonparametric and parametric estimation. An examination of those areas in the economic analysis of development where there have been recent analytical or empirical advances.
Emphasis is given to the formulation of theoretical models and econometric analysis and testing.
571 - Survey of Population Problems Survey of past and current trends in the growth of the population of the world and of selected regions. Analysis of the components of growth and their determinants. The social and economic consequences of population change. ECO571-SOC571 CourseInfo page . 572 - Research Methods in Demography Source materials used in the study of population.