ECON835 Course Outline and Assignments 

Week	Chapter Covered 	Assignment   (Due the following week, Thursday)
    
1 	review, Ch.1-8 		None - 2 hour Quiz on Tuesday of Week 2

2 	Matrix Alegra Primer,	A1 See Web Page
	Appendix B  	

3 	9.1-9.3, Appendix 9   	A2 See Web Page 
	OLS

4 	MLE, Properties of 	A3 See Web Page
	Estimators 
	4.4, Appendix 4A 	
	7.4, 7.5   
	

5 	Forecasting,     	A4 See Web Page
	Testing
  	9.6-9.9, 5.5,5.8 

6 	Testing Hypotheses, 	None
 	J.Johnston 
	"Econometric Methods" 
	5.4, p.181-189 

7 	Testing Hypotheses, 	None - Midterm Next Week
	Structural Change,
	Dummy Variables,
	Specification Error
	8.8, 9.6-9.8, ch.15,
	ch.13

8	Midterm Tues. (2 hrs)	A5 See Web page         
 	Multicollinearity   	                        
	ch.10

9	Specification Error	A6 See Web page
	ch.13

10 	GLRM,            	A7 See Web page
	Heteroskedasticity
        ch.11

11	Autocorrelation		A8 See Web page 
        ch.12

12	Endogeneity		A9 See Web page
        ch.18,19,20

13	Endogeneity, 		
	Qualitative Variables
        ch.18,19,20, ch.16