What is Econometrics? -- A Review of Some Basic Statistical Concepts -- Simple Linear Regression -- Multiple Regression Analysis -- Violations of the Classical Assumptions -- Distributed Lags and Dynamic Models -- The General Linear Model: The Basics -- Regression Diagnostics and Specification...

The global financial crisis highlighted the impact on macroeconomic outcomes of recurrent events like business and financial cycles, highs and lows in volatility, and crashes and recessions. At the most basic level, such recurrent events can be summarized using binary indicators showing if the...

Introduction: Sources and Types of Big Data for Macroeconomic Forecasting -- Capturing Dynamic Relationships: Dynamic Factor Models -- Factor Augmented Vector Autoregressions, Panel VARs, and Global VARs -- Large Bayesian Vector Autoregressions -- Volatility Forecasting in a Data Rich...

It is increasingly common in empirical research to merge data sets containing different units of observation. When the units are not nested, a crosswalk specifying how the units from one data source are allocated to the units of the other is needed. Unfortunately, most crosswalks are ad hoc, a...