I am currently an academic tutor (teaching assistant in the US) in the School of Economics at The University of Queensland.
Teaching Assistantships
- ECON3350 Applied Econometrics for Macroeconomics and Finance
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The course aims to offer advanced finance and economics students an understanding of the econometric tools that apply to financial and macroeconomic data. The approach is from an applied perspective. Lectures will introduce specific financial and macroeconomic models and the techniques required to estimate/predict/forecast with the model. The course will use a suitable econometric package to analyse the data. Core content includes statistical characteristics of time series data; capital asset pricing models; cointegrated models; volatility and volatility models; models of price changes. Skills and Perspective provided by applications to stock prices, derivatives, exchange rates, interest rates, high-frequency data analysis, and market microstructure.
- ECON3360 Causal Inference for Microeconometrics
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The purpose of the course is to offer advanced students in Economics, Commerce and Business an understanding of the econometric tools that apply to microeconomic data. The approach is from an applied perspective. Lectures will introduce specific cross-sectional and panel models and the techniques required to estimate/predict with the model. The course will make use of the econometric package, Stata, for purposes of analysing the data. Core content includes the analysis of individual-level data on the economic behaviour of individuals or firms using regression methods for cross-section and panel data. Skills and Perspective provided by applications in the area of labour economics, consumer choice, health and education. Assumed Background: Students are expected to have intermediate knowledge (at least second-year undergraduate) of economic theory and econometrics or statistics and mathematics (see prerequisites).
- ECON2300 Introductory Econometrics
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Introductory applied econometric course for students with essential economic statistics background. Topics covered include economic models and the role of econometrics, linear regression with single and multiple regressors, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals, dummy variables and nonlinear regression functions, the internal and external validity of regression models, panel data models, binary response models, instrumental variable regressions, experiments and quasi-experiments, as well as fundamental time series analysis. Practical problems are solved using the R econometrics software.
- ECON2030 Microeconomic Policy
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Extends microeconomic theory and demonstrates application to microeconomic policy issues; welfare economics, trade practices legislation, tariff policy and public enterprises.
- ECON1310 Introductory Statistics for Social Sciences
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2022 summer (no survey)
Basic statistical concepts & techniques such as descriptive statistics, probability concepts, theoretical distributions, and inferential statistics (confidence intervals & hypothesis testing) are applied in business & economics.