Econ 280 - Computation   Professor Garey Ramey   Fall 2018       Lectures: F 9:00-11:50am Seq 142 Office hours: Tu 5:00-6:00pm Econ 308             Required text :   Timothy A. Davis, "MATLAB Primer, Eighth Edition," 2011           Matlab Handouts:   Notes on Matlab v.5   Notes on Time Series Modeling   Notes on Trend and Cycle Components   Nonlinear Local Optimization and Zero-Finding   Value Function Iteration   Notes on Linear Rational Expectations Equilibria       Stata Handouts:   1 Resources and Best Practices   2 General Stata v.2   3 Writing Programs   4 Importing and Cleaning Data   5 Analyzing and Outputting Data   6 Special Topic: Building Loops       Exercises and Exams:   Matlab Exercises - Quiz 1 - Quiz 2 - Quiz 3 - Quiz 4 - Quiz 5 - Quiz 6   Vectorized Solutions - Matlab Final   Stata Exercises v.5 - Quiz 1 Stata - Quiz 2 Stata - Quiz 3 Stata - Stata Final   Stata Challenge Exercises v1       Data and Code:   US Data - US Data 2 - US Data 3   BPF.m - FILTK.m - bisect.m - plot_bands.m   ipums_stata_import_code.txt - ta_example_header_comments.do   occ label ex.xlsx - occ recode.xlsx - ta demonstrate loops.do   Supplementary code for MATLAB Primer