经济和金融学中的许多研究混淆了相关性和因果关系或者不能干净的确定经济系统中相关变化或冲击的的因果效应。这是
由于对因果关系缺乏理解或者是没有一个巧妙的研究设计,内生性效应被当作外生性,因此不能得到一致性的估计。这堂
课将教会学生一套实证经济学研究中用来估计特定效应的常用微观计量工具箱。
A lot of the research in economics and finance confuses correlation with causality or cannot cleanly identify the causal
effects of certain variation or shocks in the economic system. This is due to the lack of understanding of causality or the
lack of delicate research design; endogenous factors are taken to be exogenous and thus has led to inconsistent
estimation. This class will provide students with a micro econometric toolbox that include a broad class of methods used
in empirical research to identify certain effects cleanly.
在学习过程中,我们将更加强调每种方法背后的计量经济学直觉,而不是估计量的近似特征。我们将通过研究经济和金融
中实证研究,以及劳动经济学,产业组织,发展和公共财政等领域的例子来学习这些方法。我们将通过在真实数据上实现
每种方法,通常这些方法要求不同的计量经济学技巧。这里微观计量经济学意味着我们通常将更注重横截面和面板数据方
法。
During the learning process, we will put more emphasis on the econometric intuition behind each method, instead of
asymptotic properties of the estimators. We will learn these methods referring to examples of research mainly in the
field of economics and finance, and sometimes from other fields in economics including labour, industrial organization,
development, and public finance. We will try to implement each method on live data that requires manipulating and
analyse data using the various econometric techniques. The micro-econometric means that we will focus on cross-
sectional and panel data methods.