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- ExpandIntroduction to the Course
- ExpandMODULE 1 - Database of a CGE Model
- Introduction to the Database in a CGE Model (2 minute read)
- Introduction to the SAM (12 minute video)
- Learn About Accounts in a SAM -- an Interactive Lesson
- Explore the US333 SAM - an Interactive Lesson
- Introduction to Taxes in the UNI-CGE Model (15 minute video)
- Core Concept: Normalizing Prices and Quantities (10 minute read)
- Activities v. Commodities (8 minute video)
- Structure Tables (10 minute read)
- Macro SAMs (20 minute read)
- Should You Update Your SAM? (6 minute read)
- Elasticities (30 minute read)
- Core Concept: Variables and Parameters (6 minute read)
- ACTIVITY: Check Your Knowledge About the Social Accounting Matrix
- HANDS-ON MODELING: RUNNING THE MODEL
- ExpandMODULE 2 - Demand
- Advance Organizer - Final Demand (6 minute read)
- Introduction to Demand (4 minute video)
- Final Demand Data in the US333 SAM (12 minute read)
- Final Demand in the UNI-CGE Model (12 minute read)
- Core Concept: Behavioral and Identity Equations (6 minute read)
- Basics of Household Demand (20 minute slide show)
- Learn more about the Linear Expenditure (LES) Demand System (20 minute video)
- Core Concept: Role of Prices (10 minute video)
- Homothetic, Quasi-homothetic and Non-homothetic Demand (8 minute read)
- Government Demand in the UNI-CGE Model (15 minute read)
- Investment Demand (12 minute read)
- HANDS-ON MODELING: Pandemic Spending
- ExpandMODULE 3 - Supply
- Advance Organizer - Supply (6 minute read)
- Production Data in the US333 SAM (15 minute read)
- The Make Matrix: Diagonal and Non-diagonal (15 minute read)
- Core Concept: Price Linkages in the UNI-CGE Model (Powerpoint presentation)
- Technology Tree and Nested Production Functions (15 minute read)
- Demand for Intermediate Inputs (20 minute read)
- Demand for Factor Inputs (35 minute read)
- Core Concept: Calibration (15 minute read)
- Factors, Factor Market Equilibrium, Factor Unemployment (15 minute read)
- Factor Mobility (5 minute read)
- HANDS-ON MODELING: Robert Solow and Technological Change
- ExpandMODULE 4 - Trade
- Trade data in the US333 SAM (12 minute read)
- Product Differentiation and Trade (12 minute slide show)
- Armington Import Demand (25 minute read)
- Export Supply (20 minute read)
- Export Demand (15 minute read)
- Big versus Small Countries and the Terms of Trade (15 minute read)
- HANDS-ON MODELING: Immigration and Trade
- ExpandMODULE 5 - Macro and General Equilibrium Perspectives
- Macro SAMs, Macro Indicators and the Circular Flow (25 minute read)
- Macro Balances and Macro Constraints (25 minute read)
- Macro Closure (30 minute read)
- Inter-Industry Linkages (6 minute video)
- What Are General Equilibrium Effects? (20 minute read)
- General Equilibrium Effects of Taxes (6 minute read)
- ACTIVITY: Make a Macro Closure Decision
- HANDS-ON MODELING: How Governments Spend Taxes
- ExpandModule 6 -The UNI-CGE Model
- UNI-CGE Model (Downloadable)
- Model Exercises - An Overview
- Getting Ready: Download GAMS and the UNI-CGE Model
- Getting Ready: Structure of the UNI-CGE Model
- Getting Ready: Sets, Variables and Parameters in the UNI-CGE Model
- How to Run the UNI-CGE Model
- How to Change an Elasticity Parameter in the UNI-CGE Model
- How to Change a Macro Closure in the UNI-CGE Model
- How to Change a Factor Market Closure in the UNI-CGE Model
- How to Define, Run and Verify a Model Experiment in the UNI-CGE Model
- How to Read Results in the Excel File
- How to Read Results in the Listing (.lst) File
- How to Read Results in a GDX File
- Basics of GAMS
- About the GTAP Model
- Model Exercise: Pandemic Spending - What Happened When We Stayed Home During Covid
- Model Exercise: Robert Solow and Total Factor Productivity Growth
- Model Exercise: Immigration and Structural Change
- Model Exercise: How Should the Government Spend Your Taxes?
- ExpandFinal Exam
- ExpandAcknowledgements
- ExpandDownloadable Learning Resources
- ExpandReference Material
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Fundamentals of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modeling
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