Spring 2006, ECO 519 MATERIAL

 

Course Outline

 

Homework 1

 

Homework 2

 

Homework 3

 

Homework 4

 

Answers to selected problems (password available by email from me)

 

Huber Handout

 

Powell (1984) (Original Paper)

 

Powell Censored LAD Handout

 

Newey-McFadden Handout

 

Empirical Process Andrews Handout  

 

Summary Andrews

 

Basics for Empirical Processes  (caution: BIG file, may take a while to load)

 

Projection Theorem for U-Statistics (from Ahn and Powell (1993))

 

U-Processes, Maximal Inequalities and Maximum Rank Correlation Estimator (a compendium from Bob Sherman’s papers in the list of readings)

 

Pairwise-difference Estimation handout (based on Honore and Powell (2001))

 

Quantile-regression handout (brief, adds little to Powell’s CLAD handout)