ECON 442AEconometric Python Laboratory
Economics · 1 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Limited to Master of Quantitative Economics students. Simulates tasks of financial researcher by encouraging creative approaches to interest rate monitoring, finding leading indicators, and portfolio construction. Students locate and clean financial datasets, then conduct experiments running significance tests throughout data pipeline. Coursework includes many open questions that offer students opportunities to take novel approaches and investigate forecasting with basket of procedures.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
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Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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