This course provides a strong theoretical foundation and hands-on experience in building Social Accounting Matrices according to the new recommendations of System of National Accounts 2008. The content of the course goes beyond the generalized input-output framework for calculating simple multipliers by considering a Financial Social Accounting Matrix (FSAM).

Intensive and hands-on course at the introductory level.

The course is aimed at participants who have no or little experience with agent-based modeling but have knowledge of programming in python.

Intensive hands-on course at the introductory level. The course provides theoretical foundations and hands-on experience in building and using microsimulation models for tax, pension, health care and social benefit policies.

Taxes are the main source of revenue for the government in most countries. They also produce considerable distortions in the decision of economics agents and create major allocative and distributional impacts.

Given the importance of taxes in economic life and in government policies and budget, it is crucial to properly model them. This course uses econometric modeling with EViews and microsimulation modeling with Stata.

Intensive course at the introductory level.  This course is tailored for graduate students and professionals involved in economic forecasting and policy analysis in the central banks, ministries, research organizations, and international institutions. Ideally, the students should be familiar with the key concepts of the first-year graduate course of macroeconomics.

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Intensive course at the advanced level. This advanced course will introduce all the tools for constructing and implementing dynamic monetary and financial general equilibrium models for policy analysis.

Prerequisite: This course is only accessible to the EcoMod School alumni who have already followed the course “Financial General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS”.

This one-week course uses the IMF’s Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal (GIMF) model.  It is a modelling tool that is used to explore both monetary and fiscal policy issues in a multi-country setting, using the latest theory and techniques in Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) modelling.

Intensive course at the advanced level. This advanced course will introduce all the tools for constructing and implementing financial general equilibrium models for policy analysis. This course is only accessible to those who have some experience in general equilibrium modeling and to the alumni of the EcoMod School or on-line courses.

Intensive course at the introductory level. This course is tailored for staff developing or using macroeconometric models and staff involved in policy analysis in the central banks, ministries, and international institutions.

The course reviews the most important univariate time series models for the analysis of macro and financial data.

This is an intensive, introductory-level course designed for individuals with little or no prior experience in modeling and GAMS. While the course is entry-level, it does assume a basic understanding of theoretical concepts and mathematical skills. Participants should be comfortable with foundational economic principles and basic mathematics to fully benefit from the hands-on training provided.

Intensive course at the advanced level. The course will focus on dynamic trade policy modeling in a multinational and multisectoral general equilibrium framework with imperfect competition and recursive dynamics. This course is only accessible to those who have some experience in general equilibrium modeling and to the alumni of the EcoMod School.