Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice courses

...This course reviews the main techniques of microsimulation, using examples from the government's own report, Adding it Up to illustrate methods and possible developments...

...of theoretical and econometric methods, we will study several applications from the recent literature. The course will include lectures that develop...

...(or firms etc.) is large, but the number of time periods is quite small. It focuses on the treatment of unobserved individual specific heterogeneity...

...for the applied part of the course some basic familiarity with competition economics is useful, but not required. Next to classical applications in empirical...

...the econometric and statistical tools that have been developed to estimate the causal impact on one or more outcomes of interest of any generic 'intervention'...

...T are large and the same order of magnitude have become more common. Examples are the Penn World Tables, where the units are countries and financial...

...but will not include any derivation, proofs, or establishment of, e.g., asymptotic properties of estimators. The proposed is meant to provide practitioners...

...or to compensate for some partial observability of economic data, or to build complexities in economic decision-making into an empirical study...