ECON5590 — Econ & Business Forecasting
The course seeks to provide students with the statistical and computational tools required to conduct economic forecasting applied to economic and business decision-making. Topics include time series analysis, Box-Jenkins and ARIMA processes, Exponential Smoothing, Estimation and Forecasting, Forecast Evaluation, Nonlinear Time Series, Time Series Topics. Forecasts will be applied to economic and business examples, including sales, financial decisions and policy. Econometric software will be taught. pre-req: MBA student OR (4+1 student AND (ECON 3030 or STAT 4511 or STAT 5511))