mcfadden@econ.berkeley.edu
Economics Faculty
University of California, Berkeley

Tu-Th 2:00 - 3:30
247 Cory Hall

Instructor: Daniel McFadden
Office: 655 Evans Hall
GSI: Tiago Ribeiro

Economics Department
University of California, Berkeley
549 Evans Hall # 3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
(510) 642-0822

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Last modified: 10/26/99
ECONOMICS 240B: ECONOMETRICS/STATISTICS
Fall 1999

All materials are in PDF format, which requires Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view. See the link to the left if you wish to download the Reader from Adobe's web site (free).

The first half of the semester was taught by Professor Paul Ruud.


DANIEL L. MC FADDEN
Cox Professor of Economics

Reading List [PDF]

Course Reader [PDF]
A printed copy of course reader will be available for purchase at the beginning of October from Copy Central on Bancroft Way.

Data
The following class data sets are all columnar, plain ascii text files:

You can download them to disk by placing the mouse pointer on the link, holding down the SHIFT key, and doing a left-click with the mouse.

If you are doing the class exercises on the EML Suns, you can simply link to these data sets rather than download them. To do this, issue the following comands from your home directory:

          ln -s /class/data/e240/fall99/ex1-1.dat .
	  ln -s /class/data/e240/fall99/ex1-2.dat .
          ln -s /class/data/e240/fall99/klem.dat .
          ln -s /class/data/e240/fall99/ex5.dat .
These files will appear in your home directory as zero bytes in size; if you use the "ls -l" command, you will see they are actually simlinks. However, you will be able to read them into your programs as though they actually existed in your home directory.

Problem Sets
  • Exercise 0 [PDF]. Hypothesis Testing in an MNL Model Fitted by MLE (Not to be handed in - for discussion the weeks of Oct. 12 and 19)
  • Exercise 1 [PDF]. Growth and Exit of Firms. (To be handed in on Nov. 2)
  • Exercise 2 [PDF]. Growth and Exit of Firms, cont. (To be handed in on Nov. 9)
  • Exercise 3 [PDF]. Growth and Exit of Firms, cont. (To be handed in on Nov. 16)
  • Exercise 4 [PDF]. Demand Systems for Factors of Production. (To be handed in on Nov. 23)
  • Exercise 5 [PDF]. The Market for Gasoline. (To be handed in on Nov. 30)