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BA6507 APPLIED TIME SERIES AND PANEL DATA ANALYSIS

Course Code: 3126507
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 10.0
Department: Business Administration
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. RAMAZAN SARI
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course will cover the following materials in two parts, with an applied emphasis in finance and accounting. TIME SERIES: Data handling, Univariate time series, VARs and VECMs, Structural VAR modeling and Impulse Response Analysis, forecast error variance decomposition, Conditional Heteroscedasticity; PANEL DATA: One-way error component: fixed effects, random effects, Two-way error component: fixed effects, random effects, SUR, Nonstationary Panels: panel unit root, panel co-integration, estimation and inference in integrated panels. A statistical software package will be extensively used- i.e. Eviews, Microfit, RATS & CATS