THIS IS A COURSE IN THEORETICAL ECONOMETRICS. THIS MEANS THAT IT COVERS STATISTICAL TOPICS THAT ARE OF PARTICULAR INTEREST IN ECONOMICS AND RELATED FIELDS. BASICALLY IT WILL COVER LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF SINGLE-EQUATION AND MULTIPLE-EQUATION MODELS. THE COURSE IS INTENDED AS AN INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRIC METHODS, AN TO BE A USEFUL PREREQUISITE TO FURTHER STUDY IN THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ECONOMETRICS.

THE PREREQUISITES FOR THE COURSE ARE A BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF STATISTICS AND OF MATRIX ALGEBRA. STUDENTS SHOULD HAVE HAD AT LEAST ONE YEAR COURSE IN STATISTICS. THERE IS NO SPECIFIC COURSE PREREQUISITE IN MATRIX ALGEBRA, BUT SOME FAMILIARITY WITH MATRICES AND THE ABILITY AND WILLINGNESS TO MANIPULATE THEM ALGEBRAICALLY ARE REQUIRED.