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 advanced level. The course will focus on multinational and multisectoral modeling with imperfect competition and intertemporal dynamics. 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.

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• 2024 EcoMod School Registration

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Intensive course at the introductory level.

This course is tailored for professionals involved in economic forecasting and policy analysis in the central banks, ministries, research organizations, and international institutions.

The course will introduce all the basic tools for constructing and implementing dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models for policy analysis and forecasting.

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• 2024 EcoMod School Registration - Dubai

• 2025 EcoMod School Registration - Singapore

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Intensive course at the advanced level. The course will focus on modeling energy and greenhouse gas emissions. This course is only accessible to those who have some experience in general equilibrium modeling and to the alumni of the EcoMod School.

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• 2024 EcoMod School Registration - Dubai

• 2025 EcoMod School Registration - Singapore

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The GVAR model is a compact model of the world economy designed to explicitly model the economic and financial interdependencies at national and international levels.

Intensive course at the advanced level. The course will focus on microsimulation models and their linkages with CGE models.

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 advanced level. This course is only accessible to those who have some experience in dynamic general equilibrium modeling with GAMS and to the EcoMod alumni.

OLG models are very useful in the analysis of a large number of important policy issues such as government tax and expenditure, social security reform, welfare state, aging, international trade, demographic issues, fertility, education, human capital, growth, migration, labor market, environmental issues, intergenerational equity, etc

As the current global economic and financial crisis shows, government plays a major role in the economy. In order to monitor the economy in an uncertain and rapidly changing world, to take the best decisions and to assess their impacts, Ministries of Finance need state-of-the-art modeling techniques.