Introduction to Econometrics

The Objective of this course is to enable understudies to understand and learn the basic concepts of theoretical econometrics and how to solve the problems that may arise during estimation, using several models and methods.
This is a short term course of 8 months and the contents for this course are Ordinary Least Squares and the Simple Linear Regression Model, Endogenous Regressors and Instrumental Variables, The Simple Linear Regression Model, Statistical Inference and the Classical Linear Regression Model, The Classical Linear Regression Model, Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests in the Simple CLR Model, Using the CLR Model, The multiple Classical Linear Regression model, Multicollinearity, Functional form, Dummy variables, The measurement of gender discrimination, Heteroskedasticity, Serial correlation: testing and estimation. and the student will come to learn the basic concept of theoretical econometrics.