ECON435 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, 	A5 See Web page
 	J.Johnston 
	"Econometric Methods" 
	5.4, p.181-189 

7 	Testing Hypotheses, 	A6 See Web page
	Structural Change,
	Dummy Variables,
	Specification Error
	8.8, 9.6-9.8, ch.15,
	ch.13

8	Multicollinearity   	None - Midterm Next Week
	ch.10

9	Midterm Tues. (2 hrs)	A7 See Web page
	Specification Error
	ch.13

10 	GLRM,            	A8 See Web page
	Heteroskedasticity
        ch.11

11	Autocorrelation		A9 See Web page 
        ch.12

12	Endogeneity		
        ch.18,19,20

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