Academic Catalog

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