Computational Economics 363C
Statistics and Scientific Computation 339
Professor David Kendrick
Fall 2013



Teaching Assistant Information
Yumin Li
Office Location: BRB 2.124
Office Hours: M 3-5pm or By Appointment
Email: yuminli@utexas.edu


Course Syllabus
Syllabus 2014


Supplemental Web Material
Resources for MATLAB, Mathematica, and GAMS
Running MATLAB remotely
User's Guide for Duali Software
Stochastic Control for Economic Models (2nd Edition)


Lab #, Date Topic Code Software Documents/Handouts
Lab 1, 9/5/2014 Chakravarty Growth Model growth.xls Excel Chakravarty Growth
Model in Excel
Lab 2, 9/12/2014 Transportation in GAMS trnsport.gms GAMS GAMS on PC
Lab 3, 9/19/2014 Database in Access
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Partial Equilibrium in Mathematica





Access File: ueco2000.mdb
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Mathematica Files:
CobbDouglasv2.nb
Consumer2.nb
Firmv2.nb
Leontiefv2.nb
MarketEquilv2.nb
MS Access
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Mathematica





Access on PC
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Mathematica on PC





Lab 4, 9/26/2014 Thrift in GAMS thrift10.gms
(Time period = 10 years, with time-varying parameters,
money variables are in thousand dollars terms)

thrifttv05.gms
(Time period = 5 years, with time-varying parameters,
money variables are in thousand dollar terms)
GAMS Thrift Model in GAMS
Lab 5, 10/03/2014 Portfolio in MATLAB mcportfol.m
portfolio.m
dcri1.m
dcri2.m
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Portfilio problems in GAMS
portfolio.gms
portfolio4.gms
MATLAB Portfolio Model in MATLAB
Lab 6, 10/10/2014 GE models in GAMS simplege.gms (start with this code)
johansenge.gms
sam.gms
prodpri.gms
io-1.gms
io-2.gms
GAMS GE Models in GAMS
Lab 7, 10/17/2014 Agent based models in MATLAB initsugarscape.m
moveagent.m
neighbor.m
dispagentloc.m
initagents.m
see.m
sugarscape1.m
All use the
sugarscape1.m file
MATLAB Agent-based models in MATLAB
Lab 8, 10/24/2014 Big Data with Python lay.py
movie.py
Python (2.7) Big Data Module in Python
Lab 9, 10/31/2014 Macroeconomics in GAMS htsim.gms
ht1.gms
ht2.gms
ht3.gms
GAMS Macroeconomics in
GAMS (Hall and
Taylor model)
Lab 10, 11/7/2014 Genetic Algorithms and
Evolutionary Games
gagame.m
crossover.m
fitness_gagame.m
initpoprand_gagame.m
mutation.m
parentsdet.m
MATLAB Genetic Algorithms in
MATLAB (evolutionary
games)
Lab 11, 11/14/2014 Global Warming in GAMS dice.gms
hog1.gms
GAMS Global warming models in
GAMS
Lab 12, 11/21/2014 Genetic Algorithms and the
Portfolio Problem
gaportfol1.m
gaportfol2.m
gaportfol3.m
gaportfol4.m
gaportfol5.m
initpopdet.m
initpopran_gaportfol.m
crossover.m
mutation.m
normport.m
parentsrand.m
parentsdet.m
fitness.m
fitnessnc.m
MATLAB Genetic Algorithms in
MATLAB (Portfolio
Problem)
Lab 13, 12/3/2014 (short) Neural Networks breedlov.xls MS Excel Neural Networks in Excel