WELCOME TO ECO 323: Applied Microeconomics

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Welcome to Eco 323.

Announcements

Final Exam was today. Thank you for a great semester. The Final Grades have been posted. Have a great break.

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.

Download first part of notes on Educational Investments and Decisions

Download second part of notes on Educational Investments and Decisions

Problem Sets and Solutions

Download Problem Set 1.

Download Spreadsheet used in Question 6 of PS1.

Download Suggested Solutions for Problem Set 1.

Download Spreadsheet with Suggested Solution for problem 4 of part 4 of PS1..

Download Problem Set 2. Due Tuesday October 4, 2011

Sample Questions for Midterm 1. Solutions will be posted Sunday

Sample Questions for Midterm 1. Suggested Solutions.

Download Suggested Solutions for Problem Set 2.

Download Suggested Solutions for Midterm 1.

Download Problem Set 3.

Download Suggested Solutions to Problem Set 3.

On Tuesday November 8, 2011, you have to submit a small assignment that requires using some of the concepts we have covered in class in the last couple of weeks. The idea is for you to analyze the distribution of Population and GDP of U.S. States. You need to compute the mean, median, and standard deviation of each of these variables, and also compute the correlation coefficient. The formulae to make these calculations are covered in the lecture notes but you can also use Excel. I would also like to see a plot of the distribution of these two variables.
Download Problem Set 4.

Download Suggested Solutions to Problem Set 4.

Sample Questions for Midterm 2.

Suggested Solutions for Sample Questions for Midterm 2.

Download Suggested Solutions for Midterm 2.

Download Problem Set 5.

Download Data Set for PS5 (Problem 4) in Excel format.

Same data in Minitab format.

Download Data Set for PS5 (Problem 5) in Excel format after unzipping it.

Download Excel file directly if you have problems with the zip file.

Download Small Documentation File to Accompany the Data above for PS5 (Problem 5).

Download Suggested Solutions to Problem Set 5.

Download first set of sample questions for Final

Download second set of sample questions for Final

Other Supporting Material

Choosing a paper topic.

Library Resources in Economics.

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Minitab Tutorial

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Updated December 21, 2011