27598 - Statistical Methods for Business Analysis

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Docente: Giorgio Tassinari
  • Credits: 8
  • SSD: SECS-S/03
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration (cod. 0897)

Course contents

1. Business cycles: definition and economic theory. 2. Trend-cycle analysis. 3. Destagionalization. 4 Business cycle analysis. 4.1 Tools for business  cycle analysis 4.2 The measurement of business cycle. 4.3 New methods for business cycle measurement: the EuroCOIN indicator by CEPR. 5. Index numbers. 6. Short term forecasting. 6.1 Regression model. 6.2 Exponential smoothing. 6.3 ARMA models 7.Credit risk evaluation. 8 Benchmarking for competitive analysis.

Readings/Bibliography

1. Cipolletta, La congiuntura economica, Il Mulino, chaps.1,2 and 3.

2. and 3 Guarini and Tassinari, Statistica economica, Il Mulino, pp. 57-76.

4. Cipolletta, chaps. 4 e 5, Gary Koop, La logica sta.tistica dei dati economici, UTEY, 2001, chap.9, papers about EuroCOIN on the teacher website

5. Guarini e Tassinari, chap.1.

6. Guizzardi, La previsione economica, Guaraldi, . 2.1,2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 8, 9.1,92,9.3 10 oppure Guarini-Tassinari,  paragrafi 3.2 e 3.3.

7. Barontini, La valutazione del rischio di credito, Il Mulino, chaps. 1.

8. Class notes available abd paper by Buzzell on the teacher's web site http://www2.stat.unibo.it/tassinarig/default.htm

Teaching methods

Lectures and tutorials

Assessment methods

Written examinations

Teaching tools

Lectures' slides on the teacher's web site: http://www2.stat.unibo.it/tassinarig/default.htm

Lectures notes on the taecher's web site

Office hours

See the website of Giorgio Tassinari