Teaching
Courses taught
at Duke, Fall 2008
Econ
341, Graduate Econometrics (1st year Ph.D. course), Fall 2008 first
module (September to mid-October). Note: attendance to the summer math camp is
required for all econ PhD students. Link to syllabus
Econ
220, Applied Time Series Econometrics, Fall 2008 (Master level
course). Link to syllabus.
Econ
395E.03 and 395E.04, Empirical Methods in Macroeconomics and Forecasting in
Time Series Analysis, Spring 2008 (2nd year Ph.D. course). Link to syllabus.
Model Selection with Applications to Finance
and Macroeconomics, CREST, November 2007. Link
to syllabus.
Link
to Blackboard (Duke students only)
(see below for links to a
previous semester’s syllabus)
Empirical
Macroeconomics Study Group:
See the department
webpage for up-to-date information (old links: http://www.duke.edu/~acb8/emsg.htm)
Link to Recent
Teaching Evaluations
Previous
teaching experience
Teaching at P.U.: my students' evaluation
forms.
Teaching at Duke, 2001
Econ
341, Fall 2004 (1st year graduate econometrics). Link to
syllabus. Link to course page (duke access only).
Link to the summer math
camp (attendance is required for all econ PhD students). Link to the syllabus for Fall 2006.
Econ
141/241,
Spring 2004 (Undergraduate Applied Econometrics). Link to syllabus.
Econ
220, Applied Time Series Econometrics, Fall 2005 (Master level
course). Link to syllabus. Picture Link to
syllabus for Fall 2006.
Econ
327, Empirical Methods in Macroeconomics and Forecasting in Time Series
Analysis, Fall 2005 (2nd year graduate course). Link to
final papers. Link to
picture!!! Link to
syllabus for Fall 2006.
Links for students:
Here are a series of links
to material that might be useful for:
Students who would
like me to write a letter of reference:
Undergraduate
students who are thinking about graduate school:
Susan Athey's
thoughtful advice
Graduate
students writing a Ph.D. dissertation:
Read William Thomson, A guide
for the Young Economist – Writing and speaking effectively about Economics, MIT
Press
Graduate
students going on the market:
Cawley’s guide for students
on the job market
Claudia Goldin (a great webpage for helpful hints)
Ask me for mail-merge
programs
John
Cochrane’ suggestions
Luigi Pistaferri’s
suggestions
'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,'
said the Cat.
'I don't much care where--' said
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
'--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,'
'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you
only walk long enough.'
Lewis Carroll,