June 24-28, 2014

School of Economics,
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamebad
5 DAYS WORKSHOP ON APPLIED ECONOMICS USING SOFTWARE
(Eviews, RATS, Stata, SPSS, LaTeX)
5 DAYS W
ORKSHOP ON APPLI ED ECONOM
I CS USI NG
SOFTW
ARE (Evi ews , RATS, St at a, SPSS, LaTeX)

ABOUT WORKSHOP

A 5 days workshop on Applied Economics is planned to be held at School of Economics, Quaid-i-
AzamUniversity, Islamabad fromJune 24, 2014 to June 28, 2014. In this workshop, experts in various
fields are going to teach how to use softwares for data analysis in Economics and Management Sci-
ences. This will be the third workshop among the series. The use of these softwares is increasing day
by day in qualitative as well is in quantitative research. So a better understanding to these softwares
will enable researchers to conduct a research of good quality.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

Main objectives of organizing a 3 Days Workshop on Software for Economics Research are as under:
To introduce statistical tools available in various softwares.
To introduce softwares that can help students and researchers for conducting research.
To introduce new techniques/ available in various softwares.


WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The target participants of the workshop are the faculty members, PhD and MPhil students, and re-
searchers at various institutes, who have to use software to teach or to conduct research at various lev-
els. PhD and MPhil students are highly encouraged to attend the workshop for better understanding
about the softwares.
CONTACT PERSON

Dr. Muhammad Jamil,
Assistant Professor School of Economics, Quaid-i-AzamUniversity, Islamabad.
email: mjamil@qau.edu.pk Phone: 051-90643229, 0331-2331079
Prof. Dr. Eatzaz Ahmad
Professor
School of Economics
Quaaid-i-AzamUniversity,
Islamabad
RESOURCE PERSONS
Dr. Muhammad Idrees
Assistant Professor
School of Economics
Quaaid-i-AzamUniversity,
Islamabad
Dr. Wasim Shahid Malik
Assistant Professor
School of Economics
Quaaid-i-AzamUniversity,
Islamabad
Dr. Abdul Jalil
Assistant Professor
School of Economics
Quaaid-i-AzamUniversity,
Islamabad
Dr. Tahir Mahmood
Assistant Professor
School of Economics
Quaaid-i-AzamUniversity,
Islamabad
Dr. Muhammad Jamil
Assistant Professor
School of Economics
Quaaid-i-AzamUniversity,
Islamabad
REGISTRATION

A prescribed registration formwill be available fromthe office of school of Economics, QAU. You can
also request for the formon mjamil@qau.edu.pk. Moreover, forms can also be downloaded from
www.qau.edu.pk/economics. Last date of submitting the formis 10-6-2014. The available seats are lim-
ited, so privilege will be given to candidates who will apply first.

Registration Fee:
For Students Rs. 5000/-
For Teachers/Researchers Rs. 7000/-
June 24, 2014
Registration: 09:00am 09:30am
Inaugural Session 09:30am 10:30am
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Lecture 1: Issues in Economics Research 10:30am 01:00pm
Lunch Break
Lecture 2: Introduction to LaTeX 02:00pm 03:50pm
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Lecture 3: Editing with LaTeX 04:10pm 06:00pm

June 25, 2014
Lecture 1: Simple Regression Analysis 09:00am 10:50am
TeaBreak
Lecture 2: An Introduction to Eviews 11:10am 01:00pm
Lunch Break
Lecture 3: Systemof Equations 02:00pm 03:50pm
TeaBreak
Lecture 4: Cointegration Analysis 04:10pm 06:00pm

June 26, 2014
Lecture 1: Simple Regression Analysis and
Introduction to RATS 09:00am 10:50am
TeaBreak
Lecture 2: Time Series Analysis 11:10am 01:00pm
Lunch Break
Lecture 3: UnivariateTimeSeries
Analysis with RATS 02:00pm 03:50pm
TeaBreak
Lecture 4: Multivariatetimeseries Analysis
with thehelp of RATS 04:10pm 06:00pm

June 27, 2014
Lecture 1: Simple Regression Analysis and
Introduction to Stata 09:00am 10:50am
TeaBreak
Lecture 2: Limited Dependent Variable
Analysis 11:10am 01:00pm
Lunch Break
Lecture 3: Panel DataAnalysis 02:00pm 03:50pm
TeaBreak
Lecture 4: Dynamic Panel DataModel 04:10pm 06:00pm

June 28, 2014
Lecture 1: Non-parametric Estimation 09:00am 10:50am
TeaBreak
Lecture 2: Introduction to SPSS 11:10am 01:00pm
Lunch Break
Lecture 3: Dealing with Microdata 02:00pm 04:30pm

Closing Ceremony and Certificate Distribution
Tea Break
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
SPONSORED BY
QAU, ISLAMABAD HEC, ISLAMABAD
Dr. Anwar Shah
Assistant Professor
School of Economics
Quaaid-i-AzamUniversity,
Islamabad