ECON670-19S1 (C) Semester One 2019

Special Topic

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2019
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2019
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 1 March 2019
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 10 May 2019

Description

Special Topic

The course will cover topics related to web scraping, microeconomic theory, econometrics (software issues, main techniques), etc. The recommended applications will be mostly in wine economics, restaurant economics and cultural economics. The students will then:
- choose a topic in microeconomics (e.g. price dispersion, impact of expert opinions on prices, attendance, determinants of expert opinions, etc.)
- collect data from the web (Google Scholar, online wine or restaurant guides, etc.)
- conduct an empirical analysis based on modern econometric techniques depending on the type of data collected (diff-in-diff, reg. discontinuity, panel analysis, etc.)
- write a report (introduction, theory, data, results, conclusion)
- present at the end of the semester their work in front of their classmates to get comments and feedback
- discuss the work of another group

Prerequisites

Subject to Approval by the Head of Department.

Guest Lecturer

Olivier Gergaud (Erskine Fellow)

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Assignment 20% Discussion of another research project.
Project 60% Presentation (two parts)/Empirical Analysis
Participation 20%

Notes

Special Topic: Gastroeconometrics. This is a condensed course and will be taught in Term One only.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $962.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

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