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Code Course Title Credit Learning Time Division Degree Grade Note Language Availability
QAE5005 Big Data Analysis and Machine Learning 3 6 Major Master/Doctor Quantitative Applied Economics Korean Yes
This course aims to cultivate the ability to understand various machine learning methods as a tool for analyzing big data and to use it for actual data analysis. To do this, we introduce various machine learning models and techniques and study the concepts and principles of the methods from a statistical point of view. In addition, various data analysis examples will cultivate the flexibility to select and flexibly apply machine learning methods to the given data and analysis objectives. It is also expected to lay the foundation for applying machine learning techniques to big data analysis and interpreting the results in the future.
QAE5006 Labor Economics: Quantitative Approach using Big Data 3 6 Major Master/Doctor Quantitative Applied Economics Korean Yes
This class aims to help students learn how to analyze various types of data including big data, focusing on labor market and education-related issues, and to equip them with the ability to use them in their practice. To this end, the class focuses on empirical analysis, focusing on labor market, income distribution, demographic change, and education, which are key research topics in labor economics. In addition, this class concentrates on the process of arranging, analyzing and interpreting various types of data including text data in a form that can be analyzed using the R program.
QAE5007 Data Science for Industrial Organization 3 6 Major Master/Doctor Quantitative Applied Economics Korean Yes
This class aims to introduce the impact of big data analysis on the analysis of economic policy and research in economics related to the interaction and market structure between firms and consumers, and to learn techniques for collecting and analyzing these data. In particular, by utilizing various types of big data such as public data that is open to the public and large-scale private data that can be accessed in real time across various industries, monopoly market, collusion, price discrimination, antitrust and competition laws, which are the main research topics of industrial organization theory. In addition, the class is expected to cultivate the ability to apply or evaluate actual economic policies and decision-making within companies by learning quantitative analysis techniques of corporate and consumer behavior and market competition.
QAE5008 Health Economics: Quantitative Approach using Big Data 3 6 Major Master/Doctor Quantitative Applied Economics Korean Yes
This class aims to help students learn how to analyze various types of data including big data and focus on health economic issues and to be able to use them in practical work. To this end, the course focuses on empirical analysis, focusing on related topics such as the demand and supply of medical care, the health insurance market, and the production and cost of health, which are the key research topics in the fields of health, welfare and insurance economics. In addition, this class focuses on the process of analyzing and interpreting various types of health data using the R program.
QAE5009 Big Data Analytics in Macroeconomics 3 6 Major Master/Doctor Quantitative Applied Economics Korean Yes
This class empirically analyzes macro issues such as GDP, consumption, unemployment rate, inflation rate, and exchange rate, using big data. To this end, we need to understand deeply the principles of statistical/measuring techniques that form the theoretical basis with an academic perspective, and our class focuses on how to interpret the results produced using the R program and how to apply them to reality.It also aims to cultivate the ability to apply these techniques to practical decision-making issues from a practical point of view.
QAE5010 Quantitative Finance 3 6 Major Master/Doctor Quantitative Applied Economics Korean Yes
This class covers the statistical and quantitative skills, which are needed to conduct quantitative analysis of assets in financial markets. We use a variety of cross-sectional and time series models to predict the risks and returns of financial assets, and also use informal methods to apply vast amounts of financial data to machine learning to predict stocks that exceed market benchmarks or create portfolios. We aim at being able to configure. The goal of this course is to provide students with the ability to understand the quantitative approach being taken in the real financial industry, to use their financial and non-financial data to solve investment decisions and to evaluate the results. This course is also an informatics area that focuses on investment decision-making using large amounts of financial data.
QAE5011 Machine Learning and Economic Forecasting 3 6 Major Master/Doctor Quantitative Applied Economics Korean Yes
This course aims to learn a variety of prediction methods and statistical evaluation methods between prediction models, from traditional time series techniques used for the prediction of macro and financial time series to recently used machine learning techniques. Prediction based on time series model setting, prediction using high-dimensional data through LASSO method, and prediction using machine learning method will be discussed. It also introduces forecasting issues such as Direct Forecasting, as well as the issues related to forecasting evaluation, such as forecasting error functions and methods of testing predictive excellence.
QAE5013 Applied Economics Seminar 3 6 Major Master/Doctor Quantitative Applied Economics Korean Yes
The Applied Economics Seminar covers various cases based on data analysis and up-to-date analytical methodologies that draw a keen attention in the fields of micro-economics, macro-economics, and financial economics. We invite experts in charge of big data and machine learning related tasks from domestic and overseas leading companies and institutions to hear about the latest trends in the industry, and learn various analysis methodologies and recent cases that are used in the field. In addition, researchers who are teaching and conducting research by utilizing big data and machine learning techniques from academia will be invited to learn about the latest development direction and research methodology in the field of big data and machine learning. This seminar aims to help students get ideas for using big data and machine learning techniques in their respective fields of work as well as academic research in the future, and have the ability to use them in practice.
QAE5014 Seminar on Data Analysis 3 6 Major Master/Doctor Quantitative Applied Economics Korean Yes
This course aims to prepare students to begin empirical analysis in various topics of economics using advanced techniques of statistics, econometrics, or machine-learning. Students will have opportunities to present and discuss recent studies to learn state-of-the-art methodologies of data analysis.
QAE5016 Basics for Economic Data Analysis 3 6 Major Master/Doctor Quantitative Applied Economics Korean Yes
Demand for experts in economic data analysis is increasing, and data analysis, interpretation, and programming skills are now establishing themselves as basic skills in various occupations as well as researchers. This course introduces statistical programs for data analysis and introduces methods of analyzing various types of data used in the field of economics. This course aims to help students have the analytical ability to conduct academic research on their own through this process. This course covers data preprocessing, web data collection, textual data analysis, and, most importantly, interpreting analysis results. In addition, this course introduces various visualization methods to convey the analysis results effectively. We also replicate recent academic and policy studies in economics and other social sciences.
QAE5017 Econometric Analysis:Theory and Practice 3 6 Major Master/Doctor Quantitative Applied Economics Korean Yes
This course aims to provide students to learn advanced econometrics, a data analysis method in the field of economics, and to practice methodology using data. Lecture will cover basic econometric methods(LS, GMM, IV, MLE), basic time-series/forecasting(stationary ARMA, ARCH/GARCH, nonstationary process, VAR), panel data analysis, High Dimensional Data analysis, Survival Analysis, Discrete Choice. The course will go through lecture and practices with computer and statistical software.
SOE3001 Statistical Learning and Artificial Intelligence 3 6 Major Bachelor 3-4 Economics Korean Yes
This course covers a variety of topics related to statistical learning and artificial intelligence. Students will learn concepts and basic theories of various statistical methods and models used in artificial intelligence. In order to cultivate analytical skills and problem-solving skills for real data, Python program and deep learning package are used to practice real data.
STA2014 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics 3 6 Major Bachelor 2-3 Statistics English Yes
Topics include the concept of random variable and several statistical probability functions. Characteristics and relationships among the functions will be studied to apply to real world. Also random sample and distribution of sample mean will be explained
USS3004 Social Problems and Public Policy 3 6 Major Bachelor Social Sciences Korean Yes
Social phenomena and events which we encounter everyday are closely related with social science concepts and theories from public administration, public policy and other disciplines. Theories, frameworks, models and concepts from public administration and other social science disciplines provide lens and perspectives in understanding, explaining social problems and developing solutions for them. The students should embody and apply new perspectives and insight in understanding and in suggesting solutions for public problems occurring in the contemporary. For this goal, this class focuses on providing cases of social problems, government's policymaking, public services, and analyzing the causes and processes of, and designing solutions for the cases. We will ponder over 1) what are public problems or issues 2) why these problems should be dealt by governments or public governance, not by market or private sector 3) what policies or tools should be applied in solving problems . Drawing on case analyses of applying theories and concepts on public issues, this class aims to help students to understand the social phenomena in depth, and to develop public policies for addressing them.