ECON 552
Summer 2011 Part of Term S2
(8 week) Jun 13-Aug 4
Credit: 4 hours.
Discusses problems and methods of building social accounting matrices and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models; provides hands-on experience with CGE models with a series of PC-based exercises. The exercises demonstrate a number of techniques for constructing CGE models and show applications of these models to a variety of economic policy problems in developing countries such as food subsidies, international trade restrictions, foreign debt, and sectoral investment priorities.
Prerequisite: ECON 500 and ECON 509 or equivalent; MATH 220 or MATH 221, or equivalent.
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30571
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Lecture-Discussion
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M
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3:00PM
-4:50PM
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MTWR
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Davenport Hall
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Rashid, S
Esfahani, H |
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