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Each course I teach at UTEP has a reading companion written specifically for it. All materials are free, open-access, and updated regularly.
- ECON 3320UndergraduateMoney and BankingMoney, Institutions, and MarketsAn institutions-first treatment of monetary and financial economics, from the nature of money and the history of competitive banking through bond pricing, the yield curve, and derivatives. Seven chapters covering the full semester in an accelerated online format.Open the textbook →
- ECON 5371GraduateEconometric ForecastingTime Series Analysis for EconomistsAn open-access graduate textbook covering the full arc of modern time series methods, from stationarity and ARIMA models through forecast evaluation, structural breaks, VARs and cointegration, to conditional volatility, regime-switching, and state space models with the Kalman filter. Each technique is built from an applied question using real macroeconomic and financial series, with Python code for every chapter.Open the textbook ↗
- XQMB 5311MBAStatistics for BusinessThe Precision Advantage: Statistics for BusinessA decision-first introduction to statistics for Executive MBA students, from descriptive analysis and probability through hypothesis testing, ANOVA, and regression. Seven chapters built around real business consulting cases.Open the textbook ↗