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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: tools, tasks, resources and skills | |
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| Economists, computers and IT in today's world | |
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| The contents, structure and approach of this book | |
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| Preliminary information and key concepts | |
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| Tools, tasks, skills and resources | |
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| Summary | |
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| Skills for file and disk management tasks | |
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| Beginning to work with computers in economics | |
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| Beginning to work with a word processor | |
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| Your first word processed document | |
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| Beginning to work with a spreadsheet | |
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| Your first spreadsheet application | |
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| Beginning to work with e-mail software | |
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| Your first e-mail message | |
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| Beginning to work with a web browser | |
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| Your first time browsing the web | |
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| Beginning to work with presentation software | |
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| Preparing your first presentation | |
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| Beginning to work with database software | |
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| Creating your first database | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and mini-projects | |
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| Building on the basics: skills development | |
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| Incorporating graphics, symbols and equations | |
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| Including a graphics image in a word processed document | |
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| Working with longer word processed documents | |
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| A word processed essay | |
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| Simple economic modeling using a spreadsheet | |
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| Cost--volume--profit analysis on a spreadsheet | |
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| Developing your e-mail skills | |
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| Sending and receiving a file attachment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and mini-projects | |
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| Spreadsheets for economists | |
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| Analyzing and summarizing economic data | |
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| GDP per capita in OECD countries | |
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| Cross-tabulation | |
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| The position of women in economics departments | |
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| Regression on a spreadsheet | |
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| Carbon monoxide emissions in the European Union | |
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| A simple model of the UK consumption function | |
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| A simple Cobb--Douglas production function | |
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| Financial analysis on a spreadsheet | |
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| Investment appraisal and the net present value of an investment project | |
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| Optimization in a spreadsheet | |
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| Least squares regression again | |
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| A linear programming problem | |
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| Portfolio selection | |
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| Working with matrices in a spreadsheet | |
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| A simple macroeconomic model | |
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| Dynamic economic models in a spreadsheet | |
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| A simple multiplier--accelerator model | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and mini-projects | |
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| Statistics and econometrics software | |
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| Introduction. Dedicated statistics and econometrics packages | |
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| Preparing to use statistics and econometrics software: some preliminary considerations | |
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| Becoming familiar with statistics and econometrics software | |
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| Cigarette consumption in Turkey | |
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| More advanced time series analysis with econometrics packages | |
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| Unit-root tests of Tansel's cigarette consumption data | |
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| Cointegration analysis of the advertising--sales relationship | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and mini-projects | |
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| The Internet for economists | |
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| Introduction: the ever changing Internet--expansion, evolution and revolution | |
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| Finding information on the web | |
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| Using search engines | |
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| Using SOSIG | |
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| Finding specific types of economic information on the web | |
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| Downloading and using data from the web | |
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| Conducting a bibliographical search | |
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| Economic journals available on-line | |
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| Working papers and pre-prints | |
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| Tracking down working papers by Hal Varian | |
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| Current awareness services | |
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| On-line learning and interactive tools on the web | |
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| Building your own web page | |
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| Creating a simple web page | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and mini-projects | |
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| More advanced computing skills for economists | |
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| Introduction | |
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| More advanced use of spreadsheets and econometrics software: controlling your software with macros and procedures | |
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| Other computing tools for programming in econometrics | |
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| More advanced word processing for mathematical documents | |
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| Symbolic algebra software | |
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| Getting ready for the future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and mini-projects | |
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| References and further reading | |
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| Index | |