Advanced
Quantitative Research Methods and Applied Econometrics arm students with the
basic and advanced tools needed to conduct sound research. This course is a
study of the quantitative problems arising from your study of basic economics,
accounting, marketing, human resources, and finance and how to apply statistical
techniques to address a variety of practical problems. These include building
and estimating models and using these models to make inferences on various
themes such as volatility, risk management, hedging strategies, derivative
pricing, and portfolio allocation among others. This course is thus concerned
with the modeling of data and tests of some standard asset pricing models. The
course is very closely related to several courses you have studied already,
including but not limited to Corporate Finance, Financial Economics, Business
Economics, Development Finance, Investments and Finance and Macroeconomics.
It
is important to note that all the issues discussed in basic econometrics and
statistics such as regression analysis and hypothesis testing are very relevant
to this course. All the topics covered in this course would therefore proceed
on the assumption that you already have a deep understanding of these concepts
from your previous encounter with basic econometrics and research methods.