Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice courses

...What are the likely employment effects of the new tax credit policies? How might road user charges alter patterns of transport use? Can a change in...

...relevant theory and extensive practical, laboratory applications. Emphasis in the laboratory sessions will be on estimation of stochastic frontier models...

...that are not strictly exogenous. This means that there can be feedback from the process to be explained to the explanatory variables (for example outputs...

...It then surveys the main econometric models for univariate and multivariate processes and various tools for diagnostic testing. The theoretical exposition...

...After highlighting the 'evaluation problem' and the challenges it poses to the analyst, we focus on the empirical methods to solve it. How can one evaluate...

...where the units are firms. These data allow much more flexible treatment of heterogeneity than small T panels but raise time-series issues such as unit roots and cointegration...

...Maximum likelihood estimation; Simulation based estimation; Markov-Chain Monte Carlo estimation techniques; Bayesian and classical estimation procedures...

...Many of these methods move beyond the standard tools of econometric analysis, perhaps in order to exploit the richness or structure of large sources of...