Teaching
Courses taught
at Duke, Fall 2008
Econ
341, Graduate Econometrics (1st year Ph.D. course), Fall 2008 first module (September to
mid-October). Note: attendance to the summer math camp is required for all econ
PhD students. Link to syllabus
Econ
220, Applied Time Series Econometrics, Fall 2008 (Master level course). Link to syllabus.
Econ
395E.03 and 395E.04, Empirical Methods in Macroeconomics and Forecasting in
Time Series Analysis(2nd year Ph.D. course). Link to Overview.
Link to syllabus.
Handouts: First, Data on IP, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth
Model Selection with Applications to Finance
and Macroeconomics, CREST, November 2007. Link to syllabus.
Link
to Blackboard (Duke students only)
(see below for links to a previous semester’s
syllabus)
Empirical
Macroeconomics Study Group:
See the department
webpage for up-to-date information (old links: http://www.duke.edu/~acb8/emsg.htm)
Link to Recent
Teaching Evaluations
Previous
teaching experience
Teaching at P.U.: my students' evaluation
forms.
Teaching at Duke, 2001
Econ
341, Fall
2004 (1st year graduate econometrics). Link to syllabus.
Link to course page (duke access
only). Link to the summer math camp
(attendance is required for all econ PhD students). Link to the syllabus for
Fall 2006.
Econ
141/241,
Spring 2004 (Undergraduate Applied Econometrics). Link to
syllabus.
Econ
220, Applied Time Series Econometrics, Fall 2005 (Master level course). Link to syllabus. Picture Link to
syllabus for Fall 2006.
Econ
327, Empirical Methods in Macroeconomics and Forecasting in Time Series
Analysis,
Fall 2005 (2nd year graduate course). Link to final papers.
Link to picture!!! Link to
syllabus for Fall 2006.
Links for students:
Here are a series of links to
material that might be useful for:
Students who
would like me to write a letter of reference:
Undergraduate
students who are thinking about graduate school:
Susan Athey's thoughtful
advice
Graduate
students writing a Ph.D. dissertation:
Read William Thomson, A
guide for the Young Economist – Writing and speaking effectively about Economics,
MIT Press
Graduate
students going on the market:
Cawley’s
guide for students on the job market
Claudia Goldin (a
great webpage for helpful hints)
Ask me for mail-merge
programs
John
Cochrane’ suggestions
Luigi Pistaferri’s
suggestions
'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,'
said the Cat.
'I don't much care where--' said
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the
Cat.
'--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,'
'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you
only walk long enough.'
Lewis Carroll,