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ECON-S429

Graduate econometrics II

année académique
2024-2025
2025-2026

Titulaire(s) du cours

Alejandra Ramos (Coordonnateur) et Paula GOBBI

Crédits ECTS

5

Langue(s) d'enseignement

anglais

Contenu du cours

  • Introduction (OLS, Limitations of OLS)
  • Causal inference
  • Discrete Choice Modelling
  • Randomized Control Trial (RCT)
  • Regression discontinuity designs (RDD)
  • Difference-in-Difference (DiD)
  • Instrumental Variables (IV)

Objectifs (et/ou acquis d'apprentissages spécifiques)

The course should serve graduate students to reinforce their empirical skills, which will then be used in an empirical project and their thesis.

Pré-requis et Co-requis

Connaissances et compétences pré-requises ou co-requises

This class will discuss advanced empirical methods and the practical problems that researchers face when doing empirical research. The focus will be put on analyzing identification strategies that have been used in the empirical literature. We will cover empirical methodologies that are mostly used in micro-econometric analysis and structural papers.

Méthodes d'enseignement et activités d'apprentissages

The course consists of 24 hours of lectures and additional hours of exercises. The exercises will be in Stata and R, focusing on reproducing empirical and structural seminal papers.

Références, bibliographie et lectures recommandées

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Support(s) de cours

  • Syllabus
  • Université virtuelle

Contribution au profil d'enseignement

This course contributes to the following program learning objectives:
LO 1.2 - Assess the quality of an economic research produced by others
LO 1.3 - Identify and analyse an issue using the relevant analytical tools and methods
LO 2.1 - Adopt a scientific approach to data collection, research and analysis and communicate results with clear, structured and sophisticated arguments
LO 2.2 - Display critical thinking and develop autonomous learning strategies and techniques
LO 3.2 - Thorough and critical ability to use empirical and statistical tools in economics
LO 4.1 - Work and communicate effectively as part of a team in an international and multicultural environment

Autres renseignements

Contacts

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Campus

Solbosch

Evaluation

Méthode(s) d'évaluation

  • Travail personnel
  • Examen écrit

Travail personnel

Examen écrit

Construction de la note (en ce compris, la pondération des notes partielles)

  • 30% In-class group presentations
  • 20% In-class individual participation
  • 40% Group replication exercise
  • 10% Individual coding exercise

Langue(s) d'évaluation

  • anglais

Programmes