Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2012-13

Esta es la primera asignatura de Econometría del Grado en Economía y está programada para el segundo semestre del segundo año. Antes de esta asignatura los estudiantes cursan las asignaturas Estadística I y Estadística II que cubren estadística descriptiva, probabilidad e inferencia. El curso de Econometría I está dedicado al estudio del modelo de regresión lineal con datos de sección cruzada. En el primer bloque se introduce el modelo de regresión simple. En los bloques 2 y 3 se estudia el modelo de regresión múltiple: Estimación e inferencia bajo normalidad. En el bloque 4 se analizan las propiedades del estimador MCO en muestras grandes y se estudian los contrastes asintóticos.  En el bloque 5 se aborda el tratamiento de factores cualitativos en el modelo de regresión. Por último, en el bloque 6 se estudia el modelo de regresión con errores heteroscedásticos. Esta asignatura tiene su continuación en Econometría II que se cursa en el primer cuatrimestre del tercer curso.

 

 

Learning outcomes / Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2012-13

General Competences (CG)

  • CG1 : Capacity to find and analyse information.
  • CG4 : Apply professional criteria based on the use of technical instruments to analyse problems.
  • CG5 : Capacity to take decisions by applying acquired knowledge to practical situations.
  • CG6 : Obtain important information that is impossible for non-professionals to recognise from the data.
  • CG8 : Analyse problems using critical reasoning, without prejudices, precisely and rigorously.

 

General Competences acquired at University of Alicante (CGUA)

  • CGUA1 : Read and communicate in a foreign language in a professional environment, especially in English.
  • CGUA2 : Use computer, I.T. and communications technology tools as a matter of course in all of one's professional activities.
  • CGUA3 : Capacity for oral and written communication.

 

Specific Competences (CE)

  • CE1 : Contribute towards the correct management of resource allocation in both the private and public context.
  • CE10 : Capacity to apply the knowledge and skills acquired to solve theoretical and applied economic problems.
  • CE12 : Be able to use the appropriate tools for the analysis, diagnosis and solution of economic questions and problems.
  • CE2 : Identify and anticipate relevant economic problems relating to resource allocation in general, in both the private and public context.
  • CE3 : Bring a rational approach to the analysis and description of any aspect of economic reality.
  • CE5 : Issue expert reports on specific economic situations (international, national or regional) or on sectors of the same.
  • CE8 : Identify the sources of relevant economic information and their content.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

  • To understand basic econometric techniques for data analysis.
  • To understand and know how to use the main socio-economic databases.
  • To formulate relationships between economic variables, quantifying them and evaluating the results thus obtained.
  • To assess the different responses to an economic variable when other variables change using an econometric model. To know how to use models to obtain predictions.
  • To know how to interpret the results obtained when estimating a model.

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2012-13

 

 

General

Code: 35018
Lecturer responsible:
Denia Cuesta, Alfonsa
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: Economic Analysis
    Area: Foundations of Economic Analysis
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught