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This repository contains lecture material for various courses that I have taught over the years; in most cases also including the data and code used for creating the figures. If there are any questions or issues, feel free to contact me at stijn.vanweezel(at)ucd.ie

advanced_macroeconomics

M.Sc. course focusing mainly on empirical macroeconomics discussing identification, growth accounting, VAR models, and DSGE models. Course taught at University College Dublin in the Spring semester of 2017 and 2018.

international_trade

Third-year B.Sc. course discussing trade flows using the Gravity model, introducing students to the main theoretical trade models (Ricardian, Specific Factors, Heckscher-Ohlin), and covering a number of other issues related to international trade such as protectionism.
Course taught in the 2017 Spring term at University College Dublin and the 2014 Spring term at Royal Holloway University of London.

european_economy

Material included focuses on the macroeconomics of European integration, discussing Optimum Currency Area theory, EU monetary and fiscal policy, and the Eurocrisis. This is part of a larger second-year B.Sc. course on the economics of the European Union, taught at University College Dublin in the Spring semester of 2017 and 2018.

statistics_economics

R computer classes for first-year B.Sc. students working, or trying to work, in R. Given at University College Dublin during 2017 Spring semester.

data_analysis
Data and code, along with some problem sets, for computer classes teaching first-year B.Sc. student to do data analysis using R. Course given during the 2016 Autumn semester at University College Dublin.