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ECON6949: Special Topic in Economic Analysis 2

This unit of study enables Master of Economic Analysis students to access economics units outside their course. As such, the topic and availability of the unit varies from semester to semester, and students should seek the approval of the course coordinator to enrol.

Code ECON6949
Academic unit Economics
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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(ECON6001 or ECON6701) and (ECON6002 or ECON6702) and (ECON6003 or ECON6703) and (ECMT6002 or ECMT6702)
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. describe and summarise economic time series data using appropriate statistical tools
  • LO2. master the most widely-used and useful econometric methods for quantifying knowledge about the underlying structure of the macroeconomy, and understand the practical challenges in implementing these methods
  • LO3. use MATLAB proficiently for a range of macroeconometric analysis
  • LO4. critically evaluate applied macroeconometric research, and understand some of the problems and solutions that arise in applied work.

Unit outlines

Unit outlines will be available 2 weeks before the first day of teaching for the relevant session.