On behalf of the Department of Economics Engineering, on December 6, Professor of the Department of Economics and Finance (Tallinn University of Technology) Kadri Männasoo is delivering lectures on quantitative solution methods. Lectures will take place at 10:20 – 11:55 (SRK-I 713) and 12:10 – 13:45 (SRK-I 704).
Outline of the lectures:
1) Classical Regression Framework: Properties, Assumptions and Diagnostics
2) Ordinary Least Squares estimator and its properties
3) Gauss-Markov small sample assumptions
4) Common Regression Violations
a) Biasedness and inconsistency
b) Heteroskedasticity
5) Regression Diagnostics: R-square, F-test, heteroskedasticity and functional form tests, visual inspection of residual terms.
Kadri Männasoo is a Professor and Head of the Department of Economics and Finance at Tallinn University of Technology. She is an applied empirical economist with research interests in productivity, innovation and sustainable economic growth in the comparative context of European regions. She has also studied the micro-level implications of companies and banks performance and risk-taking in the context of macroeconomic cycles. Her teaching portfolio includes courses in applied econometrics, multivariate statistics and in research methodology. Currently she is one of the leaders of the Horizon2020 project “Institutions for Knowledge Intensive Development: Economic and Regulatory Aspects in South-East Asian Transition Economies”, led by Tallinn University of Technology in collaboration with the University of Lausanne and three South-East Asian universities. She has been a visiting researcher at the Bank of Finland, Bank of Estonia and a visiting fellow at Hamburg University.
