Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python

This website presents a set of lectures on quantitative economic modeling.

Tools and Techniques

• 1. Modeling COVID 19
• 2. Linear Algebra
• 3. QR Decomposition
• 4. Circulant Matrices
• 5. Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)
• 6. VARs and DMDs
• 7. Using Newton’s Method to Solve Economic Models

Elementary Statistics

• 8. Elementary Probability with Matrices
• 9. LLN and CLT
• 10. Two Meanings of Probability
• 11. Multivariate Hypergeometric Distribution
• 12. Multivariate Normal Distribution
• 13. Fault Tree Uncertainties
• 14. Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks
• 15. Randomized Response Surveys
• 16. Expected Utilities of Random Responses

Linear Programming

• 17. Optimal Transport
• 18. Von Neumann Growth Model (and a Generalization)

Introduction to Dynamics

• 19. Finite Markov Chains
• 20. Inventory Dynamics
• 21. Linear State Space Models
• 22. Samuelson Multiplier-Accelerator
• 23. Kesten Processes and Firm Dynamics
• 24. Wealth Distribution Dynamics
• 25. A First Look at the Kalman Filter
• 26. Another Look at the Kalman Filter

Search

• 27. Job Search I: The McCall Search Model
• 28. Job Search II: Search and Separation
• 29. Job Search III: Fitted Value Function Iteration
• 30. Job Search IV: Correlated Wage Offers
• 31. Job Search V: Modeling Career Choice
• 32. Job Search VI: On-the-Job Search
• 33. Job Search VII: A McCall Worker Q-Learns

Consumption, Savings and Capital

• 34. Cass-Koopmans Model
• 35. Cass-Koopmans Competitive Equilibrium
• 36. Cass-Koopmans Model with Distorting Taxes
• 37. Transitions in an Overlapping Generations Model
• 38. Cake Eating I: Introduction to Optimal Saving
• 39. Cake Eating II: Numerical Methods
• 40. Optimal Growth I: The Stochastic Optimal Growth Model
• 41. Optimal Growth II: Accelerating the Code with Numba
• 42. Optimal Growth III: Time Iteration
• 43. Optimal Growth IV: The Endogenous Grid Method
• 44. The Income Fluctuation Problem I: Basic Model
• 45. The Income Fluctuation Problem II: Stochastic Returns on Assets

Bayes Law

• 46. Non-Conjugate Priors
• 47. Posterior Distributions for AR(1) Parameters
• 48. Forecasting an AR(1) Process

Information

• 49. Job Search VII: Search with Learning
• 50. Likelihood Ratio Processes
• 51. Mean of a Likelihood Ratio Process
• 52. A Problem that Stumped Milton Friedman
• 53. Exchangeability and Bayesian Updating
• 54. Likelihood Ratio Processes and Bayesian Learning
• 55. Incorrect Models
• 56. Bayesian versus Frequentist Decision Rules

LQ Control

• 57. LQ Control: Foundations
• 58. Lagrangian for LQ Control
• 59. Eliminating Cross Products
• 60. The Permanent Income Model
• 61. Permanent Income II: LQ Techniques
• 62. Production Smoothing via Inventories

Multiple Agent Models

• 63. A Lake Model of Employment and Unemployment
• 64. Rational Expectations Equilibrium
• 65. Stability in Linear Rational Expectations Models
• 66. Markov Perfect Equilibrium
• 67. Uncertainty Traps
• 68. The Aiyagari Model

Asset Pricing and Finance

• 69. Asset Pricing: Finite State Models
• 70. Competitive Equilibria with Arrow Securities
• 71. Heterogeneous Beliefs and Bubbles

Data and Empirics

• 72. Pandas for Panel Data
• 73. Linear Regression in Python
• 74. Maximum Likelihood Estimation

Auctions

• 75. First-Price and Second-Price Auctions
• 76. Multiple Good Allocation Mechanisms

Other

• 77. Troubleshooting
• 78. References
• 79. Execution Statistics