Colleges and Universities Offering Economy Wide Modelling for Policy Analysis in South Africa

Institutions Offering Economy Wide Modelling for Policy Analysis

•  Garvey Africa Institute, Pretoria   
  Course content
  -Representation of CGE models in GAMS notation
  -Data requirements for a typical CGE model
  -Social Accounting Matrix (SAM), parameters and elasticities
  -Checking that equations and data are implemented correctly in the model
  -GAMS computing exercises
  -Understanding CGE model closures
  -Formulating exogenous scenarios
  -Computing simulations for policy analysis
  -Practical modelling exercises
  -Interpreting CGE modelling results
  -Reporting results
  -Various applications with special emphasis on the economic interpretation of results
  -Discussion of advanced CGE modelling topics
  -Introduction to general equilibrium modelling
  -The theory underlying CGE models
  -Discussion of issues involved in using CGE models such as the analysis of public finance, infrastructure, trade, regulation and environmental economics
  -Overview of the basic tasks in CGE based analysis
  -Introduction to GAMS

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