CLASS:  MTWThF: 9am-12:00pm,  150 Anderson Hall

OFFICE HOURS: T, Th: 1-2pm,     Hanson Hall 3-129

The grader for this course is Konstantin Golyaev 

 

Week 1 - introduction

    Introduction to Matlab                                                    Slides

    Numerical differentiation  Slides    Example: diff_ex.m

    Solving systems of non-linear equations        Updated slides

    Value function iteration                                                     Slides

    Log-linearization                                                               Slides

    Policy function iteration with finite element method

            Slides on interpolation 

            Slides on policy function iteration

HOMEWORK 1

HOMEWORK 2 



Week 2 (prof. Tim Kehoe)

Notes on linear programming

Notes on DGE models

Great Depressions of the XXth century

HOMEWORK 3

 

 

Week 3 (prof. Ellen McGrattan)

 Read chapters 3, 4 and 5 from these notes.

 HOMEWORK 3



Week 4 (prof. Patrick Bayari)

 Read Chapter 12 (Bayesian procedures) from this book. You may want to read Chapter 9 first.

 Konstantin wrote small introduction to discrete choice models. You can download it here.

 

 

Useful links

Last year's course website

Other people's websites      

    Victor Rios-Rull's website     

    Makoto Nakajima's website

    Karen Kapecky website

    Harald Uhlig's toolkit website

FORTRAN related links 

    An on-line FORTRAN 90 tutorial 

    Intrinsic functions in FORTRAN

Books

    Numerical Recipes 

    Numerical Methods in Economics