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{\bf ECON 512 - Empirical and Computational Methods} \\
Fall 2019 Class Schedule 
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1 & Aug 26 & Course Introduction \& MATLAB Discussion &  & \\
-  & Sep 2 & No Class - Labor Day. TA Session on Wednesday! \\
3 & Sep 9 & Linear Equations \& Computer Arithmetic & MF 2, J 3.5-6 \\
4 & Sep 16  &  Nonlinear Equations \& Numerical Differentiation & MF 3.0-2, MF 5.6  & 1 \\ 
5 & Sep 23 & Newton and Quasi-Newton Methods & MF 3.3-6, J 5.4-7  & \\
6 & Sep 30 & Application: Anderson and van Wincoop (2003, \emph{AER})  &   \\
7 & Oct 7 & Optimization: Nelder-Mead \& Newton-Raphson & MF 4.0-2, J 4.0-1 & 2 \\
8 & Oct 14 & Optimization: BFGS, Line Search, and Others & MF 4.3-4, J 4.3-5 \\
9 & Oct 21 & Numerical Integration: Newton-Coats and Gaussian Quadrature & MF 5.0-2, J 7.0-5 & 3 \\
10 & Oct 28 & Numerical Integration: Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo  & MF 5.3-4, J 8.0-2 &  \\
11 & Nov 4 & Constrained Optimization & J 4.7 &  4 \\
12 & Nov 11 & Application:  Co\c{s}ar, Grieco, and Tintelnot (2015, \emph{ReStat}) & &  \\
13 & Nov 18 & Project Proposal Presentations &  & \\ 
\multicolumn{5}{c}{NOV 19-23: THANKSGIVING WEEK } \\
14 & Dec 2 &  Application: Berry, Levinsohn, Pakes (1995, \emph{ECMA})  &   & 5  \\
15 & Dec 9  & Finish BLP / ACI (Cluster) Introduction & Proposal \\


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