Workshop on Regional Economic Cooperation Database and Modeling

Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model Training

CAREC Institute, Urumqi, Peoples Republic of China
3~5 December 2015

Instructors: David Roland-Holst and Samuel Evans, UC Berkeley

Overview

To extend the benefits of CAREC initiatives promoting regional economic integration, ADB and the CAREC Institute have jointly sponsored a capacity-building exercise to promote evidence-based policy research and dialog. Held at the CAREC Institute in Urumqi, Peoples Republic of China 2...4 December 2015, the workshop presents member country exports with state-of-the-art tools and techniques for policy modeling and data development.

Workshop Announcement

Training Syllabus

Lectures

Lecture 1: An Introduction to General Equilibrium Policy Modeling

Lecture 2: Social Accounting and Multiplier Analysis

Lecture 3: Simple CGE Models

Lecture 4: Research Grade CGE Models

Lecture 5: Regional CGE Modeling

Workshops

Workshop 1: Social Accounting and Multiplier Analysis

Training Resources

Resource 1: Introduction to R

Resource 2: Multiplier Decomposition with R

Resource 3: Readings

Resource 4: Software

Resource 5: Data