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Commerce Department Short Course on Economic Equilibrium Analysis with GAMS
(Monday, January 24, 2022)

Schedule

9:00-10:30 am Jim Markusen: Economic equilibrium and optimization problems using GAMS
10:30-10:45 am Break
10:45-12:00 pm Tom Rutherford: Using GAMS Studio -- A Beginner's Guide to GAMS
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00-2:30 pm Jim Markusen: The basic closed-economy general-equilibrium model as an MCP
2:30-2:45 pm Break
2:45-4:00 pm Jim Markusen: Computational Exercises with the basic model

Materials

  1. Markusen: Pre-Course Notes and Math Review (PDF)
  2. Global Comparative Statics in General Equilibrium: model building from theoretical foundations (PDF)
  3. Markusen: Lecture Notes (zip)
  4. Markusen: GAMS Code (zip)
  5. Markusen: Updated version of madison5.gms (zip)
  6. Markusen: GAMS code exercises (zip)
  7. Markusen: GAMS code exercises -- solutions (zip)
  8. McCarl: Using GAMS Studio (PDF)

Recordings

  1. Monday morning
  2. Monday afternoon -- first session
  3. Monday afternoon -- second session