ECON 713: Nonparametric Econometrics, Term 1 2014/2015

Syllabus

Lecture Time and Place
Tuesdays 7:00-10:15pm, SOE/SOSS Seminar Room 5.1

Instructor
Liangjun SU           ljsu@smu.edu.sg, Tel: 6828 0386
Office hours:           Tuesdays 3-5pm or by appointment, at SOE/SOSS Building #05-052

Teaching Assistant:  None

 

 

Textbooks

Required

    Nonparametric Econometrics: Theory and Practice (Highly recommended), by Qi Li and Jeffrey Scott Racine, Princeton University Press, 2007.

 

 

Supplementary Books

    Nonparametric Econometrics (Optional), by Adrian Pagan and Aman Ullah, Cambridge University Press, 1999.

    Nonlinear Time Series: Nonparametric and Parametric Methods (Optional), by Jianqing Fan and Qiwei Yao, Springer, 2003.

 

Statistical software 

 

Knowledge in Matlab is required. For SMU faculty or students to access Matlab, please refer to the installation guides through the SMU network at

 

\\Fs01\applications\applications\Research-Software\Matlab

 

For instructions on how to install Matlab in your own computer, please click here.

 

If you have any questions regarding the installation of the above software, please contact our systems engineer Anson CHEW Wee Siang from IITS at ansonchew@smu.edu.sg for help.

Click here for a short introduction to Matlab. For some compressed/zipped Matlab codes for class-demonstration, please click here.

 

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Lecture Notes

 

1.  Nonparametric Density Estimation and Testing (posted on 15/08/2014)

2.  Nonparametric Regression  (posted on 15/08/2014)

3.  Nonparametric Sieve Estimation  (posted on 02/09/2014)

4.  Semiparametric Estimation of Partially Linear Models (posted on 02/09/2014)

5.  Semiparametric Estimation of Additive Models (posted on 02/09/2014)

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Homework and Solutions

Homework and post date

Due Date

Solutions

HW1 (15 Aug, 2014) Business03.xls

   16 Sept, 2014

HW1_solutions

HW2 (16 Sept, 2014) Boston_house.xlsx

   25 Nov, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Last updated 2014/08/15