Teach Yourself Econometric Data Analysis with EViews

Download or read book Teach Yourself Econometric Data Analysis with EViews written by Chukwuemeka Tiptop Okoro and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a large group of people in a variety of fields, including finance, economics, accounting, science, mathematics, engineering, statistics, and public policy who need to understand some basic concepts of time series analysis and forecasting. Analyzing time-series data and forecasting future values of a time series are among the most important problems that analysts face in many fields. But to Successfully analyze this time series data requires that the analyst interact with computer software because the techniques and algorithms are just not suitable to manual calculations.This book has been written with the aim of solving this problems by providing a step-by-step guide to economic and financial econometrics using EViews. It contains a brief overviews of the concepts of econometric models, and data analysis techniques followed by procedures of how they can be implemented in EViews. This book is written as a compendium for undergraduate and graduate students in economics, finance, statistics and accounting. It can also serve as a guide for researchers and practitioners who desire to use EViews for analyzing financial data. This book may be used as a textbook companion for post graduate level courses in time series analysis, empirical finance, statistics and financial econometrics. Since, many organizations can improve their effectiveness and business results by making better short-to-medium term forecasts, this book should be useful to a wide variety of professionals. Topics Covered with examples Include: Chapter 1: Introduction to EViews. Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics and Preliminary Tests. Chapter 3: Running Regression Analysis in EViews. Chapter 4: Forecasting Using Regression Models. Chapter 5: Economic Forecasting using ARIMA Modelling. Chapter 6: Volatility Modeling: ARCH, GARCH and EGARCH Models. An Introduction to Financial Econometrics. Chapter 7: Vector Autoregressive (VAR) Model. An Introduction to Macroeconometrics. Chapter 8: Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). Chapter 9: Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL). Chapter 10: Panel Data Analysis