William C. Horrace
Associate Professor of Economics, Syracuse University

Courses

CAS 101: Freshman Forum. The Freshman Forum is a small seminar-style class with a faculty member and students who are new to Syracuse University. The experiences are both social and intellectual and intended to facilitate students becoming an active member of the College of Arts and Sciences here and the local community. The setting is relaxed and interactive and the course includes topics of general academic and personal interest. [ Syllabus ]

ECN 302: Intermediate Macroeconomics. National product and income concepts, measurements and relationships, interrelationships of the major segments of the national economy, forces effecting the general level of economic activity.  Prerequisite: ECN 102 or 203 or 109, quantitative skill requirements of the liberal arts core recommended. [ Syllabus ]

ECN 521: Economic Statistics.  Statistical methods applied to economics. Conventional descriptive statistics, conceptual and measurement problems peculiar to economics. Analytical statistics, including time series analysis, elementary theory of probability and statistical inference, correlation and regression analysis. Nonparametric methods. Prerequisite: completion of mathematics basic skills.
[ Syllabus ]

ECN 620: Foundations of Econometrics. Probability and Statistics.  Random Variables, joint probability distributions, point estimates and hypothesis testing procedures.  May not be repeated for credit. [ Syllabus ]

ECN 621: Econometrics I. Mathematical formulation of economic models. Statistical problems of estimating parameters in regression
analysis. [ Syllabus ]

ECN 622: Econometrics II. Estimation problems and techniques in more complex economic models. Prereq: ECN 621.  [ Syllabus ]