Sumários

Lecture 2

20 Setembro 2022, 18:00 Paulo Parente

Exercise Sheet 1: Exercises 3,4,5,6,7,8.

    The Nature of Econometrics and Economic Data

  ∙  Major uses of Econometrics
  ∙  Basic Ingredients of an empirical project
  ∙  Formulate a model (example)
  ∙  The Question of Causality
  ∙  Misspecification Testing
  ∙  Types of Data

    The Multiple Regression Model

  ∙  The regression model in scalar form
  ∙  Motivation for the Ordinary Least Squares estimator
  ∙  Estimation Procedure
  ∙  Multiple Regression Analysis




Lecture 1

13 Setembro 2022, 18:00 Paulo Parente

General Information on the module.

Revision on Matrix Algebra

Vectors
  • Definition
  • Transpose
  • inner product
  • Euclidean norm
  • distance
Matrices
  • Definition
  • Transpose
  • Basic Rules
  • Outer product
  • Linear Dependence and Rank
  • Characteristic roots and vectors
  • Eigen Decomposition of a symmetric matrix
  • Trace
  • Quadratic forms
Exercise Sheet 1: Exercises 1, 2,