Program
Preliminary program
ZICE Program, issue 14.01.2013 (PDF, 38 KB)
| Saturday, 26 January 2013 | ||
| 17.00 – 19.00 |
Software Installation | Philipp Ott |
| Sunday, 27 January 2013 | ||
| 09.30 – 10.30 | Introduction to Computational Economics | Ken Judd |
| 10.45 – 12.15 | Numerical Optimization for Economists: Unconstrained Optimization | Todd Munson |
| 12.15 - 13.45 | Lunch | |
| 13.45 - 15.15 | Software tutorials: AMPLE | Ken Judd |
| 15.30 - 17.00 | Non-linear equations | Karl Schmedders |
| 17.00 – 18.30 | Office hours, homework | |
| Monday, 28 January 2013 | ||
| 09.00 – 09.30 | Discuss exercises | |
| 09.30 - 11.00 | Numerical Optimization for Economists: Constrained Optimization | Todd Munson |
| 11.10 - 12.40 | Approximation and Quadrature | Ken Judd |
| 12.40 - 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Constrained Optimization Approaches to Structural Estimation I | Che-Lin Su |
| 15.30 - 18.00 | Office hours, homework | |
| Tuesday, 29 January 2013 | ||
| 09.00 – 09.30 | Discuss exercises | |
| 09.30 - 11.00 | Numerical Optimization for Economists: Complementarity Problems | Todd Munson |
| 11.10 - 12.40 | Constrained Optimization Approaches to Structural Estimation II | Che-Lin Su |
| 12.40 - 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Dynamic Programming | Ken Judd |
| 15.30 - 18.00 | Office hours, homework | |
| 19.30 | Conference Dinner Restaurant Zeughauskeller, Zürich | |
| Wednesday, 30 January 2013 | ||
| 09.00 – 09.30 | Discuss exercises | |
| 09.30 - 11.00 | Advanced Topics: Mixed-Integer Optimization and Global Optimization | Todd Munson |
| 11.10 - 12.40 | Software for Dynamic Programming | Ken Judd |
| 12.40 - 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 -15.30 | Constrained Optimization Approaches to Structural Estimation III | Che-Lin Su |
| 15.45 - 17.15 | Modern Computational Economics | John Rust |
| 17.30 - 18.30 | Office hours, homework | |
| Thursday, 31 January 2013 | ||
| 09.00 - 09.30 | Discuss exercises | |
| 09.30 - 11.00 | Projection method | Ken Judd |
| 11.10 - 12.40 | Dynamic Programs in Climate Economics | Thomas Lontzek |
| 12.45 - 14.15 |
Lunch talk: Do Pharmacists Buy Bayer? Sophisticated Shoppers and the Brand Premium (Lunch being served) | Jean-Pierrre Dubé (Chicago Booth) |
| 14.30 - 16.00 | Computing Equilibria of Repeated and Dynamics Games I | Sevin Yeltekin |
| 16.00 - 18.00 | Office hours, homework | |
| Friday, 1 February 2013 | ||
| 09.00 – 09.30 | Discuss exercises | |
| 09.30 - 11.00 | Heterogeneous agents macro models | Ken Judd |
| 11.10 - 12.40 | Structural Estimation of single agent discrete choice models with an empirical focus | John Rust |
| 12.40 - 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Computing Equilibria of Repeated and Dynamics Games II | Sevin Yeltekin |
| 15.45 - 17.15 | The Dynamics of Bertrand Price Competition with Cost Reducing Investments | John Rust |
| 17.30 - 18.30 | Office hours, homework | |
| Saturday, 2 February 2013 | ||
| 09.00 - 09.30 | Discuss exercises | |
| 09.30 - 11.00 | A big Data Approach to Optimal Tax Policy for Modern Dynamic Economies | Ken Judd |
| 11.10 - 12.40 | An advanced numerical analysis of "Does AMD Spur Intel to Innovate More?" | John Rust |
| 12.40 - 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | All solution Homotopies | Karl Schmedders |
| 15.40 - 17.10 | Groebner Bases | Felix Kübler |
| Sunday, 3 February 2013 | ||
| No official program on Sunday. We wish you all a safe journey back home |