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- ExpandIntroduction to the Course
- Introduction to the Course (4 minute slide show)View
- Orientation (8 minute read)View
- Who Should Take This Course? (4 minute read)View
- Why are They Called "CGE" Models? (10 minute read)View
- What is a Computable General Equilibrium Model? (18 minute read)View
- HANDS-ON MODELING - GETTING READYView
- Sample Syllabus - a Four-Week Course
- Introduction to the Course (4 minute slide show)
- ExpandMODULE 1 - Database of a CGE Model
- Introduction to the Database in a CGE Model (2 minute read)View
- Introduction to the SAM (12 minute video)View
- Learn About Accounts in a SAM -- an Interactive LessonView
- Explore the US333 SAM - an Interactive LessonView
- Introduction to Taxes in the UNI-CGE Model (15 minute video)View
- Core Concept: Normalizing Prices and Quantities (10 minute read)View
- Activities v. Commodities (8 minute video)View
- Structure Tables (15 minute read)View
- Macro SAMs (20 minute read)View
- Should You Update Your SAM? (6 minute read)View
- Elasticities (30 minute read)View
- Core Concept: Variables and Parameters (6 minute read)View
- ACTIVITY: Check Your Knowledge About the Social Accounting MatrixView
- HANDS-ON MODELING: RUNNING THE MODELView
- Introduction to the Database in a CGE Model (2 minute read)
- ExpandMODULE 2 - Demand
- Advance Organizer - Final Demand (6 minute read)View
- Introduction to Demand (4 minute video)View
- Final Demand Data in the US333 SAM (12 minute read)View
- Final Demand in the UNI-CGE Model (12 minute read)View
- Core Concept: Behavioral and Identity Equations (6 minute read)View
- Basics of Household Demand (20 minute slide show)View
- Learn more about the Linear Expenditure (LES) Demand System (20 minute video)
- Core Concept: Role of Prices (10 minute video)View
- Homothetic, Quasi-homothetic and Non-homothetic Demand (12 minute read)View
- Government Demand in the UNI-CGE Model (15 minute read)View
- Investment Demand (18 minute read)View
- HANDS-ON MODELING: Pandemic SpendingView
- Advance Organizer - Final Demand (6 minute read)
- ExpandMODULE 3 - Supply
- Advance Organizer - Supply (6 minute read)View
- Production Data in the US333 SAM (18 minute read)View
- The Make Matrix: Diagonal and Non-diagonal (15 minute read)View
- Core Concept: Price Linkages in the UNI-CGE Model (Powerpoint presentation)View
- Technology Tree and Nested Production Functions (15 minute read)View
- Demand for Intermediate Inputs (20 minute read)View
- Demand for Factor Inputs (35 minute read)View
- Core Concept: Calibration (15 minute read)View
- Factors, Factor Market Equilibrium, Factor Unemployment (15 minute read)View
- Factor Mobility (5 minute read)View
- HANDS-ON MODELING: Robert Solow and Technological ChangeView
- Advance Organizer - Supply (6 minute read)
- ExpandMODULE 4 - Trade
- Trade data in the US333 SAM (12 minute read)View
- Product Differentiation and Trade (12 minute slide show)View
- Armington Import Demand (25 minute read)View
- Export Supply (25 minute read)View
- Export Demand and Large/Small Countries (15 minute read)View
- Big versus Small Countries and the Terms of Trade (15 minute read)View
- HANDS-ON MODELING: Immigration and TradeView
- Trade data in the US333 SAM (12 minute read)
- ExpandMODULE 5 - Macro and General Equilibrium Perspectives
- Macro SAMs, Macro Indicators and the Circular Flow (25 minute read)View
- Macro Balances and Macro Constraints (25 minute read)View
- Macro Closure (35 minute read)View
- Inter-Industry Linkages (6 minute video)View
- What Are General Equilibrium Effects? (20 minute read)View
- General Equilibrium Effects of Taxes (6 minute read)View
- ACTIVITY: Make a Macro Closure DecisionView
- HANDS-ON MODELING: How Governments Spend TaxesView
- Macro SAMs, Macro Indicators and the Circular Flow (25 minute read)
- ExpandMODULE 6 - UNI-CGE Model
- Download the UNI-CGE model
- Model Exercises - An Overview
- Getting Ready: Download GAMS and the UNI-CGE Model
- Getting Ready: Run the UNI-CGE Model
- Getting Ready: Structure of the UNI-CGE Model
- How To: GAMS Basics
- How to Upload a Country Data File
- How to Change an Elasticity
- How To Change a Macro Closure
- How to Change Factor Market Closures (Unemployment, Mobility)
- How to Define, Run and Verify an Experiment
- How to Read Results in a .LST File
- How to Read Results in a GDX File
- How to Read Results in an Excel File
- Exercise: Robert Solow and Technological Change
- Exercise: How Should the Government Spend Your Taxes?
- Exercise: Immigration and Structural Change
- Exercise: Pandemic Spending - What Happened When We Stayed Home During Covid
- Exercise: How Tariffs Work
- Exercise: World Energy Price Shocks (coming soon)
- Model Exercise Answer Keys
- Country Database Library
- Structure Table Library
- Download the UNI-CGE model
- ExpandFinal Exam
- ExpandAcknowledgements
- ExpandDownloadable Learning Resources
- ExpandReference Material
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- 30 hours study
- 2Level 2: Intermediate
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Fundamentals of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modeling
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