Economics 349FR - Forecasting
Spring
2016
01
4.00
Heather Tierney
TTH 01:15PM-02:30PM
Mount Holyoke College
95596
Skinner Hall 202
htierney@mtholyoke.edu
In this course, students will learn time series forecasting theory and methods for Business and Economics. Concepts such as stationarity, non-stationarity, deterministic and stochastic trends, seasonality, and volatility will be covered. Models used for forecasting such as the Cob-Web, ARMA and ARIMA (i.e. the Box-Jenkins), VAR, ARCH, and VaR will also be covered.
Prereq: Economics 211 and 220.