Developing a WiNDC Web Application to solve CGE Models
October 17, 2025
Since I stated at WiNDC I have had the vision of developing a web application to allow users to run CGE models built with WiNDC without needing to install any software locally. The past week I have made significant progress towards this goal and have a working prototype. Read more
Loading GTAP in Julia
October 10, 2025
I’ve been spending the past week formalizing the process of loading GTAP data into Julia. The first step was to create a Julia package to read GEMPACK HAR files. I’ve been working with Maros Ivanic, who has a package for reading these files in R, and we’ve been collaborating to ensure that the Julia package is efficient and user-friendly. Read more
Visualizing GTAP in Julia
October 03, 2025
I’ve spent the past week working on a package to load GTAP data from the provided HAR files. The good news is that I have working code to load the data into a Julia DataFrame. The bad news is that it will take a little more time to clean it up and make it user-friendly. Read more
Julia Developing Tips
September 26, 2025
Julia has many features that make developing packager easier, compared to Python or R. However, new comers to the language often miss out on some of these features. Here are some tips that I have found useful when developing packages in Julia. Read more
A Few Examples of Dynamic Calibration
September 19, 2025
This week was the MPSGE Monthly seminar, I presented a few examples calibrating a dynamic CGE model. I’ll use this blog post to share a few Julia specific tips and tricks I used in the process. The repository is available on GitHub. Read more