Computational Economics--Eco392M

Lab #, Date	Topic	Code	Software	Documents/Handouts	c.f.	Sample
Lab 1, 01/23/2008	Chakravarty Growth Model Transportation in GAMS Small Mexican Steel Model in GAMS (static) Mercado, Lin and Kendrick Multisectoral Growth Model	growth.xls chakra.gms trnsport.gms mexss.gms kentay.gms	Excel GAMS GAMS GAMS GAMS	Growth Model in Excel 2007 PCs GAMS in PCs GAMS in UNIX
Lab 2, 01/30/2008	Database in Access Portfolio in MATLAB Portfolio in GAMS	useco2000.mdb mcportfol.m portfolio.m dcri1.m dcri2.m portfolio.gms portfolio4.gms	Access MATLAB GAMS	MS Access on UNIX MS Access 2007 on PCs Portfolio model in MATLAB(UNIX) Portfolio model in MATLAB (PCs) GAMS in UNIX GAMS in PCs
Lab 3, 02/06/2008	Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Games Genetic Algorithms and the Portfolio Problem	gagame.m, crossover.m, fitness_gagame.m, initpoprand_gagame.m, mutation.m, parentsdet.m gaportfol1.m, gaportfol2.m, gaportfol3.m, gaportfol4.m, gaportfol5.m, initpopdet.m, initpoprand_gaportfol.m, mutation.m, normport.m, parentsrand.m, parentsdet.m, fitness.m, fitnessnc.m, crossover.m	MATLAB MATLAB	Genetic Algorithms in MATLAB UNIX (Evolutionary Games) Genetic Algorithms in MATLAB PCs (Evolutionary Games) Genetic Algorithms in MATLAB UNIX (Portfolio Problem) Genetic Algorithms in MATLAB PCs (Portfolio Problem)
Lab 4, 02/13/2008	Dynamic Optimization in MATLAB	qlpabel.m, qlpsimple.m	MATLAB	Dynamic optimization in MATLAB UNIX Dynamic optimization in MATLAB PCs
Lab 5, 02/20/2008	Agent based models in MATLAB Thrift in GAMS	initsugarscape.m, moveagent.m, neighbor.m, dispagentloc.m, initagents.m, see.m, sugarscape1.m thrift.gms thrifttv.gms (Windows version with time-varying parameters) uthrfttv.gms (UNIX version with time-varying parameters)	MATLAB GAMS	Agent-based model in MATLAB (PCs) Agent-based model in MATLAB (UNIX) Thrift model in GAMS (PCs) Thrift model in GAMS (UNIX)
Lab 6, 02/27/2008	Macroeconomics in GAMS	ht1.gms, ht2.gms, htsim.gms, ht3.gms	GAMS	Macroeconomics Hall and Taylor model in GAMS (PCs) Macroeconomics Hall and Taylor model in GAMS (UNIX)
Lab 7, 03/05/2008	Macroeconomics in GAMS Taylor’s model in GAMS - closed economy - two country, flexible exchange rate - two country, fixed exchange rate - two-country flexible exchange rate model with real interest rate rules	ht1.gms, ht2.gms, htsim.gms, ht3.gms tay1.gms tay2.gms tay3.gms tay4.gms	GAMS GAMS	Macroeconomics Taylor model in GAMS (PCs) Macroeconomics Taylor model in GAMS (UNIX)
Lab 8, 03/19/2008	Partial Equilibrium in Mathematica CGE models in GAMS - Kendrick and Mercado - Orani	CobbDouglasv2.nb Consumerv2.nb Firmv2.nb Leontiefv2.nb MarketEquilv2.nb simplege.gms, johansenge.gms, sam.gms, prodpri.gms, io-1.gms, io-2.gms orani.gms	Mathematica GAMS	Partial Equilibrium in Mathematica (PCs) Partial Equilibrium in Mathematica (UNIX) General Equilibrium model in GAMS (PCs) General Equilibrium model in GAMS (UNIX)	Introduction to economywide Computational modeling paper by Mercado and Kendrick
Lab 9, 03/26/2008	Environmental Models	dice.gms holistic.gms (for Unix) hog1.gms (for PC)	GAMS	Environmental models in GAMS (PCs) Environmental models in GAMS (UNIX)
Lab 10, 04/02/2008	Abel and Hall and Taylor in Duali	ht-01.dui, ht-02.dui, ht-03.dui	Duali	Abel model and Hall and Taylor models Duali in UNIX Lab
Lab 11, 04/09/2008	MacRae Model Taylor Rational Expectations	Open through Duali ch07.dui (MacRae) tay-sim.dui tay-qlp.dui tay-hcfr.dui	Duali	MacRae and Taylor Duali in UNIX Lab MacRae and Taylor Duali in CARE Lab
Lab 12, 04/16/2008	Linear Quadratic Model Neural Networks Discrete State Space Model	lqzolf.m lqz1.m uinf_olf.m breedlov.xls chakra_03.m	MATLAB Excel MATLAB	Linear Quadratic model in MATLAB (PCs) Linear Quadratic model in MATLAB (UNIX) Neural Networks in Excel (PCs) Discrete Space model in MATLAB (PCs) Discrete Space model in MATLAB (UNIX)
Lab 13, 04/23/2008	Dynamic Programming in MATLAB	chakra_inf_dk.m chakra_sto_dk.m	MATLAB	Dynamic Programming in MATLAB (PCs) Dynamic Programming in MATLAB (UNIX)
Lab 14, 04/30/2008	Neural Networks	breedlov.xls	Excel	Neural Networks in Excel (breedlov)