ECO481H1S Special Topics in Economics with Data Analytics: Macroeconomic Finance (with machine learning applications)

This course is an introductory course to different concepts and techniques related to Machine Learning, focusing mainly on Macro-finance applications. In the first part of the course, we will review supervised and unsupervised learning methods. In the second part, we will discuss various macro-finance concepts, where the use of Machine Learning is more and more common. Therefore, the course's objective is to provide students with the basics of machine learning for them to be able to solve certain economic problems using these techniques and be prepared for more advanced machine learning courses.

Section L0101 , Winter 2022–23

Instructor: Marlene Koffi
Day/time: R10-1

Delivery Method & Instructions : In Person

Location: UC 144
TA: Neil Adam