Macroeconomic analysis

Literature: Burda, Wyplosz: Macroeconomics: A European Text, Oxford: University Press, 2001. MAK-195.
                   Williamson: Macroeconomics, Addison Wesley, 3ed., 2005. MAK-208. book support
                   Pindyck, Rubinfeld: Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts, Irwin/McGraw-Hill, Fourth edition, 1998, STM-126.

Databases: DSI  FRED 


Messages:(new messages are put on top)
Comment to exam and Sample with results are on the web.
Some notes about elementary statistics have been posted.
Voluntary homework: examine cyclical behaviour of price level (lcpi)
Lecture note for seminar 2 April has been posted.
For curious students: some additional readings about filters (and one m-file) are posted on the web.


Texts: Information about the course.   Introduction to Matlab   Lecture note 2   Lecture note 3   Lecture note 4   Lecture note 5   Lecture note 6   Elementary statistics   Lecture note 7   ECM   Lecture note 8   Lecture note 9   Lecture note 10   Lecture note 11   Lecture note 12    

Time series of data: rates.txt   cz.txt   congov.txt   us.txt   us2.txt   cz4.txt  

Additional Matlab functions: Hodrick-Prescott filter hp.m   correlation coefficient corrfn.m   Band pass filter bpass.m   test of corr. coef. corrtest.m   ordinary least squares ols.m   lag of time series lag.m  


Results (m-files):  exercise1a.txt   exercise1b.m   exercise2.m   exercise3a.m   exercise3b.m   compare_filters.m   exercise4.m   test_ols.m   exercise5.m (supplemented exercise 4) simulation.m   exercise6.m   exercise7.m   error_correction.m   exercise8.m   exercise9.m   exercise10.xls   exercise11.m  


Pictures:  Xrates   Time series   Differences  


Exam:   Comment to exam   Sample of exam    data_exam.txt  


Suplementary readings:  

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