This course offered by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy aims at practical training of the empirical assessment process and the interpretation and evaluation of economic relations. With the aim of reconciling economic theory with its practice and thus empowering participants with analytical skills from decision-making processes.

Target audience of this course:

Researchers and analysts in any of the following economic fields: development economics, general financial policies, taxes policies, social and health economics, financial markets, as well as international trade and finance.

Course Objectives:

After completing the course, students will be able to learn the following:

• Apply regression analysis.
• Use of phantom variables.
• Dealing with basic separators.
• Dealing with overrides of basic assumptions for regression analysis.
• The application of co-integration techniques and error correction models debugging modeling if the time series data contain the root of the unit.
• Participants will be tested for an open book on the last day of the course. They will be awarded the certificate upon successful completion of this course.

• Principles and methodology of econometric analysis.
• Preliminary statistics.
• Basics of regression analysis.
• Evaluate one equation.
• Violations of traditional assumptions.
• Rows that contain fake variables.
• Root unit testing.
• Non-linear integration.
• Error correction models.
• Simulation (forecasting and policy analysis)