WELCOME TO ECO 323: Applied Microeconomics



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Announcements

Extra Credit Due Monday November 23, 2009.

Regular Office hours for Professor Benitez-Silva are:

Mondays 11am to 12pm, and Thursdays 4pm to 5pm

Yoobin Kim is your T.A. His e-mail is ykim@ic.sunysb.edu

Office Hours for Yoobin will be Tuesdays 2pm to 3pm, and Fridays 11am to 12pm.


Lecture Notes and Class Assignments

Download Lecture Notes on Intertemporal Choice

Download short Note on the Net Present Value.

Download related notes on the Present Value, Future Value, and related concepts .

Download related notes on the Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return and related concepts

Download Note on extensions to the traditional Net Present Value analysis.

Download related notes on Option Pricing

Download Lecture Notes on Uncertainty

Download Short additional Notes on Uncertainty

Download the Introduction to Econometrics, and Measures of Central Tendency.

Download notes on Measures of Dispersion, Symmetry and Bivariate Statistics

Download notes on the Simple Regression Model

Download notes on the Simple Regression Model: Measures of Fit

Download a technical note on the Derivation of the OLS Estimators

Download notes on the variance and standard deviation of OLS estimators

Download notes on Logarithmic Transformations, and the Multiple Regression Model.


Problem Sets and Solutions


Download Problem Set 1.

Download Spreadsheet used in Question 6 of PS1.

Download Suggested Answers for Problem Set 1.

Download Problem Set 2.

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Download Problem Set 3.

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Download Problem Set 4.

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Other Supporting Material

Download Sample Questions for Midterm 1.

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Download Suggested Solutions to Midterm 1.

Download Sample Questions for Midterm 2.

Download Suggested Solutions to the Sample Questions for Midterm 2.

Download Suggested Solutions to Midterm 2.

Download Data on unemployment for EU countries, useful for Extra Credit Question Due Nov. 23, 2009.

Choosing a paper topic.

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Excel Tutorial

Minitab Tutorial


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Updated November 19, 2009