EC 313 Computational Economics

Spring 2000, Prof. Baum

Downloadable Syllabus (Adobe Acrobat format)

Midterm: Thursday 23 March, through Chapter 6 of Gaylord et al.

Research Project due date: 5:00 PM, Friday 5 May, Carney 136 mailbox(revised)

Research Project Guidelines : HTML or PDF

Final Exam : Monday 8 May, 9:00 AM

Useful resource for research project:
Computational Economics and Finance: Modeling and Analysis with Mathematica, Hal Varian, ed.,
on reserve at O'Neill Library

Downloadable Lecture Notes, Handouts, and Problem Sets

Available in HTML and PDF formats

BC Econ Guide to Information Resources

Resources for Economists on the Internet

RePEc service : IDEAS and SSC-IDEAS

BC Econ Guide to Data Resources

Access to Economic and Financial Data at Boston College

Experimental interface to mySQL RDBMS

Kendrick and Amman, Programming Languages in Economics

Mathematica web site

Octave in Econometrics review

Sample matrix language programs

mySQL database language

PHP3 web interface language

Maeder, ProgrammingTutorial.nb

Random Walks handout

Multiplier-Accelerator handout

Probit Estimation handout

Financial Option Valuation handout

Exploratory Data Analysis handout, notebook and data file

Problem Sets: