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Computational Economics Workshop

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CEPAR offered this four day workshop  at the University of New South Wales from 5 to 8 December, 2016.

The workshop was presented by Professor Hans Fehr from the University of Würzburg.

The main objective of the workshop was to provide participants with state of the art techniques for quantitative macroeconomic research. Participants learnt the most prominent models in this field and were familiarized with the relevant literature. The aim was to enable participants to develop their own ideas and conduct their own policy analysis using the programming skills acquired.

The workshop consisted of a series of lectures and practical exercise classes, focused on the following:

  • Review of programming in Fortran and numerical solution methods
  • Solution techniques to dynamic programming problems
  • Infinite horizon models including the Ramsey model and the real business cycle (RBC) model
  • Partial equilibrium life cycle (LC) model
  • Policy analysis using the stochastic overlapping generations (OLG) model
Date: 
Monday, December 5, 2016 - 10:30
End date: 
Thursday, December 8, 2016 - 16:30
Location: 
UNSW Business School