Lecture notes for a course of Introductory Econometrics (linear regression model and ordinary least squares, including concepts of Linear Algebra and Inferential Statistics), and for a second course of Econometrics (simultaneous equations, instrumental variables, limited and full information...

The complete validation of an econometric model is a process which involves a formidable number of activities in the various steps of model building, like economic structure specification, test of hypothesis and parameter estimation, simulation behaviour and decision making. Our attention will...

Problems related to deterministic solution of nonlinear econometric models are well known in the literature. The use of mean (average) stochastic simulation results has been usually proposed to solve the problem of bias. This raises however other types of problems, like possible non-coherent...

In this paper, control variates are proposed to speed up Monte Carlo simulations to estimate expected error rates in multivariate classification.

Stochastic simulation with antithetic variates is used to evaluate the bias of deterministic simulation in nonlinear econometric models. Application to the Klein-Goldberger model exemplifies the potentiality of the method.