home                   Spring     2008

       ECON 4160   Economic Forecasting

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TA Office Hours (Habersham Building Room #215):

Lan Ding                     M 3:30-4:30pm

Debao Hu                   W 4:00-5:00pm

 

Juanjie Long               F 4:00-5:00pm

 

Yingwen Xu               

         

         

Important dates: 
            Exam I                                    February 7      Thursday (in class)

            Exam II                                   March 13        Thursday (in class)

            Exam III                                 May 1             Thursday, 8:00-10:50am

            Project Week:                        April 21-25

 

            Eviews Session                       January 29, in class                PPT   

            Quiz 1                                      January 29, in class                Quiz 1 Answer Key  


            Homework 1 (due 01/17)         statistical review questions     Answer Key     

Homework 2 (due 01/22)           Assignment 2         Answer Key            

Homework 3 (due 01/31)       Diebold's book, page 69, #10, a, b, c      Answer Key      
                                                            and   Assignment 3   Data for question 2   Data for question 3     

                                                             Previous Test 1         China Business Briefing Luncheon

Homework 4 (due 02/26)            Assignment 4            Answer Key          

Homework 5 (due 03/6)              Assignment 5            Answer Key        

Homework 6 (due 03/11)            Assignment 6           Answer Key     

Homework 7 (due 04/08)      Diebold's book:   page 154, replicate the application --forecasting employment   

            page 163, #2, #4; page 185, #3                           Answer Key          

Homework 8 (due 04/15)            Assignment 8             Answer Key           

Project (due 04/25)               Project            

 Quiz 2 Answer Key                Quiz 3 Answer Key                Previous Test 2                                            

 

The last homework:
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