Based on over 15 years’ experience in the design and delivery of successful first-year courses, this book equips undergraduates with the mathematical skills required for degree courses in economics, finance, management, and business studies. The book starts with a summary of basic skills and...

"This book reviews the three most popular methods (and their extensions) in applied economics and other social sciences: matching, regression discontinuity, and difference in differences. The book introduces the underlying econometric/statistical ideas, shows what is identified and how the...

Panel data model with stationary and nonstationary regressors and error terms -- Panel time trend model with stationary and nonstationary error terms -- Estimation of change points in stationary and nonstationary regressors and error term -- Weak instruments in panel data models -- Incidental...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Classical Time Series Models and Financial Series -- 1.1 Stationary Processes -- 1.2 ARMA and ARIMA Models -- 1.3 Financial Series -- 1.4 Random Variance Models -- 1.5 Bibliographical Notes -- 1.6 Exercises -- Part I Univariate GARCH...