The aim is to extend students' ability to use computer software as a tool for problem-solving and model analysis in economics and to introduce them to some of the electronic databases available for use by economists. On the successful completion of this unit, students should be able to use current statistics and econometric software to run multiple regressions, to perform diagnostic tests such as normality, serial correlation, white heteroskedasticity and Ramsey RESET tests, to interpret the basic regression output, to use other important PC and mainframe software tools which have been identified in the course and to use electronic databases to obtain relevant economic data.

Introduction to Eviews, Review of Basic Econometrics, Simple and Multiple Regression, Restriction and Diagnostic Tests, Stationarity, Cointegration, Tests of Structural Breaks, Granger Causality, Vector Auto Regression, Time-series Models, Model Selection Criteria, Preparation of Final Report, Oral Presentations