Overview
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Use big data to forecast economic trends. Find out how to perform regression analysis for economic forecasting using Microsoft Excel.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Using the exercise files
- Basics of economic analysis
- Sources of economic data
- Economic forecasting methods
- Regression analysis in economics
- Predicting values with regressions
- Trend analysis in forecasting
- Serial correlation in data
- Analyzing results
- Fixed effects regressions
- Binary regressions
- Advanced regression applications
- Difference in differences analysis
- Understanding economic output
- Forecast accuracy
- Scenario analysis
- Next steps
