TEST BANK For Introductory Econometrics: A
Modern Approach 8th Edition by Wooldridge,
Chapter 1 – 19
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Nature of Econometrics and Economic Data.
1: REGRESSION ANALYSIS WITH CROSS-SECTIONAL DATA.
2. The Simple Regression Model.
3. Multiple Regression Analysis: Estimation.
4. Multiple Regression Analysis: Inference.
5. Multiple Regression Analysis: OLS Asymptotics.
6. Multiple Regression Analysis: Further Issues.
7. Multiple Regression Analysis with Qualitative Information:
Binary (or Dummy) Variables.
8. Heteroskedasticity.
9. More on Specification and Data Problems.
PART 2: REGRESSION ANALYSIS WITH TIME SERIES DATA.
10. Basic Regression Analysis with Time Series Data.
11. Further Issues in Using OLS with Time Series Data.
12. Serial Correlation and Heteroskedasticity in Time Series
Regressions.
PART 3: ADVANCED TOPICS.
13. Pooling Cross Sections across Time: Simple Panel Data
Methods.
14. Advanced Panel Data Methods.
15. Instrumental Variables Estimation and Two Stage Least
Squares.
16. Simultaneous Equations Models.
17. Limited Dependent Variable Models and Sample Selection
Corrections.
18. Advanced Time Series Topics.
19. Carrying out an Empirical Project
,Chapter 1
1. Econometrics is the branch of economics that .
a. studies the behavior of individual economic agents in making economic decisions
b. develops and uses statistical methods for estimating economic relationships
c. deals with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole
d. applies mathematical methods to represent economic theories and solve economic problems.
Answer: b
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: What is
Econometrics? BUSPROG:
Feedback: Econometrics is the branch of economics that develops and uses statistical methods for
estimating economic relationships.
2. Nonexperimental data is called .
a. cross-sectional data
b. time series data
c. observational data
d. panel data
Answer: b
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: What is
Econometrics? BUSPROG:
Feedback:
3. Which of the following is true of experimental data?
a. Experimental data are collected in laboratory environments in the natural sciences.
b. Experimental data cannot be collected in a controlled environment.
c. Experimental data is sometimes called observational data.
d. Experimental data is sometimes called retrospective data.
Answer: a
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: What is Econometrics?
,BUSPROG:
Feedback:
4. An empirical analysis relies on to test a theory.
a. common sense
b. ethical considerations
c. data
d. customs and conventions
Answer: c
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: Steps in Empirical Economic
Analysis BUSPROG:
Feedback: An empirical analysis relies on data to test a theory.
5. The term ‘u’ in an econometric model is usually referred to as the .
a. error term
b. parameter
c. hypothesis
d. dependent variable
Answer: a
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: Steps in Empirical Economic
Analysis BUSPROG:
Feedback: The term u in an econometric model is called the error term or disturbance term.
6. The parameters of an econometric model .
a. include all unobserved factors affecting the variable being studied
b. describe the strength of the relationship between the variable under study and the factors
affecting it
c. refer to the explanatory variables included in the model
d. refer to the predictions that can be made using the model
Answer: b
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: Steps in Empirical Economic
Analysis BUSPROG:
,Feedback: The parameters of an econometric model describe the direction and strength of the
relationship between the variable under study and the factors affecting it.
7. Which of the following is the first step in empirical economic analysis?
a. Collection of data
b. Statement of hypotheses
c. Specification of an econometric model
d. Testing of hypotheses
Answer: c
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: Steps in Empirical Economic
Analysis BUSPROG:
Feedback: The first step in empirical economic analysis is the specification of the econometric
model.
8. A data set that consists of a sample of individuals, households, firms, cities, states,
countries, or a variety of other units, taken at a given point in time, is called a(n) .
a. cross-sectional data set
b. longitudinal data set
c. time series data set
d. experimental data set
Answer: a
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: The Structure of Economic Data
BUSPROG:
Feedback: A data set that consists of a sample of individuals, households, firms, cities, states,
countries, or a variety of other units, taken at a given point in time, is called a cross-sectional
data set.
9. Data on the income of law graduates collected at different times during the same year is .
a. panel data
b. experimental data
c. time series data
d. cross-sectional data
Answer: d
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Application
, A-Head: The Structure of Economic Data
BUSPROG: Analytic
Modern Approach 8th Edition by Wooldridge,
Chapter 1 – 19
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Nature of Econometrics and Economic Data.
1: REGRESSION ANALYSIS WITH CROSS-SECTIONAL DATA.
2. The Simple Regression Model.
3. Multiple Regression Analysis: Estimation.
4. Multiple Regression Analysis: Inference.
5. Multiple Regression Analysis: OLS Asymptotics.
6. Multiple Regression Analysis: Further Issues.
7. Multiple Regression Analysis with Qualitative Information:
Binary (or Dummy) Variables.
8. Heteroskedasticity.
9. More on Specification and Data Problems.
PART 2: REGRESSION ANALYSIS WITH TIME SERIES DATA.
10. Basic Regression Analysis with Time Series Data.
11. Further Issues in Using OLS with Time Series Data.
12. Serial Correlation and Heteroskedasticity in Time Series
Regressions.
PART 3: ADVANCED TOPICS.
13. Pooling Cross Sections across Time: Simple Panel Data
Methods.
14. Advanced Panel Data Methods.
15. Instrumental Variables Estimation and Two Stage Least
Squares.
16. Simultaneous Equations Models.
17. Limited Dependent Variable Models and Sample Selection
Corrections.
18. Advanced Time Series Topics.
19. Carrying out an Empirical Project
,Chapter 1
1. Econometrics is the branch of economics that .
a. studies the behavior of individual economic agents in making economic decisions
b. develops and uses statistical methods for estimating economic relationships
c. deals with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole
d. applies mathematical methods to represent economic theories and solve economic problems.
Answer: b
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: What is
Econometrics? BUSPROG:
Feedback: Econometrics is the branch of economics that develops and uses statistical methods for
estimating economic relationships.
2. Nonexperimental data is called .
a. cross-sectional data
b. time series data
c. observational data
d. panel data
Answer: b
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: What is
Econometrics? BUSPROG:
Feedback:
3. Which of the following is true of experimental data?
a. Experimental data are collected in laboratory environments in the natural sciences.
b. Experimental data cannot be collected in a controlled environment.
c. Experimental data is sometimes called observational data.
d. Experimental data is sometimes called retrospective data.
Answer: a
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: What is Econometrics?
,BUSPROG:
Feedback:
4. An empirical analysis relies on to test a theory.
a. common sense
b. ethical considerations
c. data
d. customs and conventions
Answer: c
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: Steps in Empirical Economic
Analysis BUSPROG:
Feedback: An empirical analysis relies on data to test a theory.
5. The term ‘u’ in an econometric model is usually referred to as the .
a. error term
b. parameter
c. hypothesis
d. dependent variable
Answer: a
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: Steps in Empirical Economic
Analysis BUSPROG:
Feedback: The term u in an econometric model is called the error term or disturbance term.
6. The parameters of an econometric model .
a. include all unobserved factors affecting the variable being studied
b. describe the strength of the relationship between the variable under study and the factors
affecting it
c. refer to the explanatory variables included in the model
d. refer to the predictions that can be made using the model
Answer: b
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: Steps in Empirical Economic
Analysis BUSPROG:
,Feedback: The parameters of an econometric model describe the direction and strength of the
relationship between the variable under study and the factors affecting it.
7. Which of the following is the first step in empirical economic analysis?
a. Collection of data
b. Statement of hypotheses
c. Specification of an econometric model
d. Testing of hypotheses
Answer: c
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: Steps in Empirical Economic
Analysis BUSPROG:
Feedback: The first step in empirical economic analysis is the specification of the econometric
model.
8. A data set that consists of a sample of individuals, households, firms, cities, states,
countries, or a variety of other units, taken at a given point in time, is called a(n) .
a. cross-sectional data set
b. longitudinal data set
c. time series data set
d. experimental data set
Answer: a
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
A-Head: The Structure of Economic Data
BUSPROG:
Feedback: A data set that consists of a sample of individuals, households, firms, cities, states,
countries, or a variety of other units, taken at a given point in time, is called a cross-sectional
data set.
9. Data on the income of law graduates collected at different times during the same year is .
a. panel data
b. experimental data
c. time series data
d. cross-sectional data
Answer: d
Difficulty:
Easy
Bloom’s: Application
, A-Head: The Structure of Economic Data
BUSPROG: Analytic
