Provides an introduction to MATLAB: a computer language that gives researchers very flexible control over how they move between economic theory and empirical methods. Written for researchers who use survey data to understand economic behaviour.
Provides an introduction to MATLAB: a computer language that gives researchers very flexible control over how they move between economic theory and empirical methods. Written for researchers who use survey data to understand economic behaviour.
Abi Adams is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Fiscal Studies and a Cowles Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research focuses on consumer choice, with a particular interest in nonparametric methods and revealed preference theory. Damian Clarke is a DPhil (PhD) student in economics at the University of Oxford, with research focusing on maternal and child health and education, fertility and family size, and applied microeconometrics. Damian has worked for a range of international organisations and government bodies in Latin America and in West Africa. Simon Quinn is an Associate Professor of Economics and a Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford. Simon's research interests lie primarily in the study of firms and development.
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I: Foundations 1: Entering the 'Matrix Laboratory' 2: The Agent Optimises 3: The Economist Optimises II: Discrete Choice 4: Discrete Multinomial Choice 5: Discrete Games III: Dynamics 6: Dynamic Choice on a Finite Horizon 7: Dynamic Choice on an Infinite Horizon IV: Non-Parametric Methods 8: Nonparametric Regression 9: Semiparametric Methods V: Speed 10: Speeding Things Up. . . 11: . . and Slowing Things Down
