Introductory Econometrics Course Outline

eAUSTRALIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

ECON2206 / ECON3290 (ARTS) Introductory Econometrics Course outline
SESSION 2, 2011

Lecturer in Charge: Dr. Rachida Ouysse Room ASB441 Telephone: [phone] Email: [e-mail] Lectures: Fridays 9am-11am Venue: Law Theatre G04

Website: http://telt.unsw.edu.au/

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 STAFF CONTACT DETAILS 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 9 9 9 10 10 10 12 13 13 13 14

1.1 Communications with staff 2 COURSE DETAILS

2.1 Teaching Times and Locations 2.2 Units of Credit 2.3 Aim and Summary of Course 2.4 Relationship to Other Courses 2.5 Student Learning Outcomes 3 LEARNING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES
The Tutorial Program questions will be posted on the course website. Each week a series of problems based on the lecture material will be set. You should attempt all questions before attending tutorial classes. Two tutorial assignments (due Week 5 and Week 12) will be collected and marked as the Tutorial Assessment. The two tutorial assignments (10% weight on each) will account for 20% of your total assessment for the course. The two assignments must be handed in to the tutor at (or before) the beginning of your tutorial class in Week 5 and 12. Otherwise a mark of zero will be given. Staff members other than your tutor will NOT accept your assignment. The tutorial assignments are designed to assess your understanding of regression models, your ability to interpret regression results and appraise the quality of a model. The tutorial assignments involve analysing data with STATA. The criteria used for marking the assignments are correctness and clarity of the answers presented. The tutorial assignments and the course project (see below) are designed to assess progress toward learning objectives 1-6; the tutorial assignments and course project are the main form of assessment for objective 6 (performing regression analysis using specialised econometric software). Assignment work is individual. You MUST show your own work. Simply reproducing work from other sources is NOT acceptable and is subject to
For UNSW policies, penalties, and information to help you avoid plagiarism see: http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism/index.html as well as the guidelines in the online ELISE and ELISE Plus tutorials for all new UNSW students: http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/skills/tutorials/InfoSkills/index.htm. To see if you understand plagiarism, do this short quiz: http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism/plagquiz.html For information on how to acknowledge your sources and reference correctly, see: http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/ref.html For the ASB Harvard Referencing Guide, see the ASB Referencing and Plagiarism web page: http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/learningandteaching/studentservices/resources/Pages/ referencingandplagiarism.aspx In the School of Economics all cases of substantial plagiarism are reported to the Associate Head of School. The following penalties will apply:  Reduction in marks for the assessment item, including zero;  Failure in the course [00FL] in extreme cases;  Other additional penalties in accordance with the UNSW Procedures for Dealing with Student Plagiarism, may be considered in extreme cases;  All cases will be recorded on the UNSW Plagiarism Central