MA Economics

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2027, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MA (full-time)
  UK students (per annum): £16,600
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £35,300

The fees quoted above are fully inclusive of tuition, administration and computational costs.

Fees for entry are subject to yearly review. The University reserves the right to increase your tuition fee by up to 7% each year for courses lasting more than one year, including to reflect rising costs associated with delivering our educational and wider student experience. Postgraduate fees information .

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All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

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The aims of this course are to:

(i) provide an introduction to econometric methods that will assist students in understanding empirical research in their field;

(ii) enable students to apply these methods in their own research.

The aims of this course are to:

(i) provide an introduction to econometric methods that will assist students in understanding empirical research in their field;

(ii) enable students to apply these methods in their own research.

At the end of the course students should be able to:

(i) demonstrate their understanding of the appropriate econometric methods for analysing data;

(ii) interpret computer output for the estimation and testing of econometric relationships;

(iii) interpret and discuss results of econometric estimation in the economic context.

Provisional

Lecture 1 and 2: What Econometrics is about and the Simple Regression Model (Chapters 1 and 2)

Lecture 3: The Simple Regression Model: Estimation and Inference (Chapter 2)

Lecture 4: Multiple Regression  I: Estimation (Chapter 4)

Lecture 5: Multiple Regression II: Inference (Chapter 4)

Lecture 6: Asymptotic Inference and Instrumental Variables (Chapter 5 and 15)

Lecture 7: Heteroscedasticity (Chapter 8)

Lecture 8: Categorical variables and Binary response models (Chapter 7 and parts of Chapter 17)

Lecture 9: Introduction to time-series (parts of Chapters 10 and 11)

Lecture 10: Introduction to time-series (parts of Chapters 10 and 11)

The chapter numbers above refer to the main text for this course:

Wooldridge, J.M. (2013) Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, 5th ed., Cengage (If you can get hold of the 4th edition that is absolutely sufficient.)

The lecturer will follow this text closely and it is essential that students buy a copy and use it to support the

Lectures and Tutorials.

10% Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Economics test.

10% Midterm test

20% Coursework

Heiss, F. (2016) Using R for Introductory Econometrics (it is available for free online: http://www.urfie.net/read/mobile/index.html#p=1)