Università Roma Tre

A refresher on multiple linear regression. Further topics in regression analysis: Instrumental variables, Differences-in-Differences, Regression Discontinuity estimators, Heckman's sample selection model, Mediation analysis, Quantile regression. Introduction to time series and forecasting. Models for univariate time series: ARMA, ARIMA, ARCH, GARC. Time series regression with additional predictors. The autoregressive distributed lag model. Estimation of dynamic causal effects. The VAR model. Breaks. Cointegration and error correction. Prediction with many regressors and big data: Ridge regression, the Lasso, regression trees and random forests.

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