QuantEcon News

• QuantEcon Africa summer course

  31 Jul 2023

  QuantEcon has just delivered our Africa summer course

• Welcome to Our New Research Assistants

  25 Jun 2023

  We would like to give a warm welcome to Porntipa Poonpolsub and Sreehari P. Sreedhar, who have joined QuantEcon as research assistants.

• Introductory Lecture Series Launched

  14 Jun 2023

  QuantEcon has launched A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python.

• New Book on Economic Networks

  5 Jun 2023

  The new book "Economic Networks, theory and computation" by John Stachurski and Tom Sargent.

• Quantitative Economics with Google JAX

  31 May 2023

  QuantEcon has launched Quantitative Economics with Google JAX, a new lecture series that introduces JAX and its techniques to solve high-dimensional economic problems.

• New book on dynamic programming

  13 May 2023

  The new book "Dynamic Programming Volume 1" by Tom Sargent and John Stachurski is available.

• QuantEcon Workshops in Japan

  5 May 2023

  QuantEcon hosted several workshops in Japan.

• Welcome to Our New Research Assistants

  1 Apr 2023

  We would like to give a warm welcome to Frank Wu and Hengcheng Zhang, who have joined QuantEcon as research assistants.

• RSE Computational Economics Workshop

  2 Feb 2023

  On February 16 2023, QuantEcon hosted a workshop designed to introduce students and policy makers to modern scientific computing tools and their applications to economic problems.

• Recently Added Lectures

  9 Jan 2023

  We have been busy adding new material to our Python lectures site.

• Introducing Our Research Assistant Smit Lunagariya

  1 Nov 2022

  We would like to introduce Smit Lunagariya who has been working as a Research Assistant at QuantEcon since April 2022.

• Updates to NumPy and Advancing Programming in Python Lectures

  30 Sep 2022

  We have updated our NumPy to include a discussion of how broadcasting in NumPy makes code faster and less memory-intensive.

• Dynamic Structural Econometrics Conference 2022

  25 Aug 2022

  John Stachurski will provide a sequence of lectures on computational dynamic programming at the next Econometric Society summer schools in Dynamic Structural Econometrics.

• Welcome to Our New Research Assistant

  7 Aug 2022

  We would like to give a warm welcome to Maanasee Sharma, who has joined QuantEcon as a research assistant.

• QuantEcon Summer Course at the African School of Economics

  4 Aug 2022

  QuantEcon recently held a two-week summer course in Quantitative Economics at the African School of Economics.

• Upcoming QuantEcon Workshops in Canberra and Paris

  7 Jul 2022

  QuantEcon is holding workshops at Australian National University and the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics.

• Updates to Exercises in Python Lectures

  14 Jun 2022

  Styled Exercises and Solutions using sphinx-exercise v0.4

• Protecting Privacy in Randomized Surveys

  12 May 2022

  Two new lectures discuss how to protect respondents' privacy while accounting for selection biases in randomized surveys.

• Comparing Bayesian and Frequent Approaches

  9 Mar 2022

  A new lecture uses Python to compare Bayesian and Frequentist approaches to estimating parameters of a distribution.

• QuantEcon Lectures Now Support Julia 1.7

  23 Feb 2022

  Quantitative Economics with Julia has been updated to support the latest version of Julia.

• New Lecture on First-Price and Second-Price Auctions

  16 Feb 2022

  A new Python lecture on first- and second-price sealed-bid auctions sealed-bid auctions of a single good has been added

• Julia Lectures Updated

  8 Sep 2021

  The Julia lectures updated to Jupyter Book, with additional software engineering content

• NYU Computational Social Science Certificate Program

  24 Jul 2021

  NYU Computational Social Science Certificate Program

• Data Science Student Project Showcase

  14 May 2020

  Data Science Student Project Showcase

• Python Lecture Series Split

  7 Apr 2020

  Python Lecture Series Split

• Julia Lectures Updated to 1.3

  9 Mar 2020

  Julia Lectures Updated to 1.3

• QuantEcon (ANU) PreDoc Position for 2020

  4 Nov 2019

  QuantEcon PreDoc Position for 2020

• Global PDF restored on for the Python lectures

  30 Jun 2019

  Global PDF and individual PDFs for all the lectures are now available on Quantecon website

• Demand curve estimation with pyBLP

  17 Jun 2019

  BLP Demand curve estimation by Chris Conlon and Jeff Gortmaker

• Announcing our new intern: Welcome Anju Joon

  14 May 2019

  Quantecon team welcomes Anju Joon as a summer intern

• QuantEcon pre-doc Natasha Watkins starting at UCLA

  3 May 2019

  Our pre-doctoral fellow Natasha Watkins will be starting the PhD program at UCLA in 2019.

• Run QuantEcon Lectures with Google Colab!

  11 Apr 2019

  You can now open a lecture as a Jupyter notebook in Google Colab, allowing code to be run and edited live in the cloud.

• Workshop for the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

  5 Apr 2019

  QuantEcon will run a one day workshop at Australian National University on Python for computational economics and econometrics on April 10th, 2019.

• Summer School in Dynamic Structural Econometrics 2019

  1 Mar 2019

  Applications are now open for the Econometric Society's Summer School in Dynamic Structural Econometrics.

• Apply to OSE Boot Camp 2019

  20 Feb 2019

  The Open Source Economics Laboratory (OSE Lab) at the University of Chicago is now accepting applications for its 2019 boot camp.

• Krusell-Smith Model with Julia

  24 Jan 2019

  This notebook shows how to solve the Krusell-Smith model using the Euler equation method in Julia.

• Major Update to Build System

  11 Jan 2019

  The new build system allows easier editing of QuantEcon lectures, with output being automatically generated from lecture code.

• Partnership with University of British Columbia

  11 Dec 2018

  QuantEcon is partnering with the Centre for Innovative Data in Economics at the University of British Columbia.

• Speeding up the Python Lectures

  5 Dec 2018

  QuantEcon has been working to speed up the Python lectures with the help of just-in-time compilation from Numba.

• Julia 1.0 Lectures Released

  4 Dec 2018

  As part of the move to Julia 1.0, QuantEcon lectures in Julia have been significantly revised and are now co-authored with Jesse Perla.

• QuantEcon.py 0.4.2 Released

  27 Nov 2018

  The latest release of QuantEcon.py implements the Abreu and Sannikov algorithm for solving games, and the Nelder-Mead algorithm for multivariate optimization.

• QuantEcon Merchandise Store

  22 Oct 2018

  Purchases from our merchandise store will help support and promote the QuantEcon project.

• QuantEcon Notes Officially Launched

  19 Oct 2018

  QuantEcon is excited to launch QuantEcon Notes, a site for sharing and viewing Jupyter notebooks related to computational economics.

• Inaugural NumFOCUS Awards Dinner

  3 Oct 2018

  Congratulations to Jesse Perla who was recognized at the inaugural NumFOCUS Awards Dinners for his contributions to QuantEcon.

• QuantEcon.jl v.15.0 Released

  10 Sep 2018

  A new Python lecture studying government debt over time has been added to our dynamic programming squared section.

• QuantEcon.py v0.4 Released

  21 Aug 2018

  The latest update includes just-in-time compiled root finding methods, the Hamilton filter, and improvements to the game theory module.

• Robust Markov Perfect Equilibrium Lecture Added

  8 Aug 2018

  A new lecture extending Markov Perfect Equilibrium and Robustness lectures has been added to the Python side.

• Fiscal Risk and Government Debt Lecture Added

  24 Jul 2018

  A new Python lecture studying government debt over time has been added to our dynamic programming squared section.

• Casual Lead Web Developer Position

  30 May 2018

  QuantEcon is looking for a part-time lead web developer to continue active development of the QuantEcon Notes project.

• Pathways for QuantEcon Lectures

  4 May 2018

  Our lectures site now features separate pathways for undergraduate and graduate students.

• QuantEcon Honours Workshop recap

  23 Mar 2018

  Over 30 Honours students from around Australia attended the QuantEcon Honours workshop with Tom Sargent.

• Updates to the lectures site

  19 Mar 2018

  We have a new McCall job search lecture that introduces dynamic programming, and a revised table of contents for the lecture site.

• QuantEcon.py v0.3.8 Released

  15 Mar 2018

  The latest release of QuantEcon.py includes a new method for drawing random variables and a number of updates to the game theory module.

• Applications for OSM Boot Camp 2018

  16 Feb 2018

  The OSM Lab Boot Camp will be held at the University of Chicago from June 18 to August 3.

• Honours Workshop with Thomas J. Sargent

  1 Feb 2018

  QuantEcon will run a one day workshop for incoming Honours students on March 10.

• QuantEcon is Hiring in 2018

  31 Jan 2018

  Apply by February 25 for the QuantEcon Early Career Researcher in Computational Economics position.

• Welcoming New Steering Committee Members

  27 Jan 2018

  QuantEcon welcomes Richard Evans and Daisuke Oyama to the team.

• Download Lectures as Jupyter Notebooks

  12 Jan 2018

  QuantEcon lectures now feature a button to download code from the lectures in a Jupyter notebook.

• Thomas Sargent Keynote Presentation at PyData NYC

  4 Jan 2018

  Thomas Sargent's talk on 'Economic Models' from PyData NYC 2017 is now available on Youtube.

• QuantEcon Blog and Jupinx Launch

  11 Dec 2017

  This week we launched both the QuantEcon blog and Jupinx - a tool to convert text files to Jupyter notebooks.

• Code Testing on Lecture Site

  31 Oct 2017

  QuantEcon has implemented automatic code testing on the lecture website!

• Conclusion of PhD Workshop Series

  15 Sep 2017

  The final PhD workshop for computational economics was held at UC San Diego.

• QuantEcon.py Updated

  29 Aug 2017

  The latest release of QuantEcon.py (v0.3.6.2) is available via pip and conda-forge.

• ANU Lab Space Refurnishment

  25 Aug 2017

  The QuantEcon lab space at Australian National University is being updated and refurnished, as part of the QuantEcon-RSE Joint Initiative.

• Linear Regression in Python

  24 Jul 2017

  A new Python lecture covering linear regression estimation with statsmodels is now available.

• QuantEcon RSE Joint Initiative

  23 Jun 2017

  QuantEcon is pleased to be a part of a joint initiative with the Research School of Economics at Australian National University.

• 2017 PhD Workshops in Computational Economics

  23 Jun 2017

  QuantEcon will be running workshops in computational economics in the US in September 2017.

• Need for Speed in Julia

  29 May 2017

  Our new Julia lecture explores how to write high performance code using just in time compilation.

• Workshop on Bayesian modeling with Jim Savage

  23 May 2017

  QuantEcon is sponsoring Jim Savage to present a workshop on modern statistical workflow and Bayesian modeling in Stan.

• Introducing our 2017 summer intern

  23 May 2017

  Welcome to our newest member, Trevor Lyon, who will be working on various projects at QuantEcon this summer.

• Pandas for panel data

  28 Apr 2017

  An additional lecture on Pandas has been added that covers more advanced functions

• Statistics comparison cheatsheet

  24 Apr 2017

  If you're considering making the switch over to Python from STATA (or even R)

• Sequential Analysis in Julia

  10 Apr 2017

  A Julia version of 'A Problem that Stumped Milton Friedman' is now available

• Endogenous Grid Method in Python and Julia

  7 Apr 2017

  We have added a new lecture on the endogenous grid method for policy iteration

• New Julia Lectures and Style Update

  28 Mar 2017

  You can now find three new lectures on the Julia side of QuantEcon lectures

• RBA and RBNZ QuantEcon Workshops

  21 Mar 2017

  QuantEcon ran workshops at the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand

• OSM Boot Camp at the University of Chicago

  18 Jan 2017

  The Open Source Macroeconomics Laboratory (OSM Lab) is soliciting applications for a seven week computational macroeconomics boot camp

• QuantEcon is hiring in 2017

  12 Jan 2017

  Position descriptions are now available for PostDoc and PreDoc

• Migrating from Google Groups to Discourse Forum

  21 Nov 2016

  Launching a new QuantEcon Forum based on discourse

• Keynote lecture at JuliaCon 2016

  29 Oct 2016

  A few months ago one of us (the one who's better at fly fishing)

• Julia version of Aiyagari lecture

  9 Aug 2016

  A Julia version of the Aiyagari lecture has been added to the site

• QuantEcon will be hiring developers soon

  8 Jul 2016

  As mentioned in an earlier news item, QuantEcon has received a large new

• New grant awarded by the Sloan Foundation!

  1 Jul 2016

  QuantEcon has received a very generous new grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

• QuantEcon has joined NumFOCUS

  1 Jun 2016

  Along with several collaborators, we have created an organization called QuantEcon

• Workshop at Econometric Society meetings

  12 Feb 2016

  On June 16 we'll be running a workshop based around quant-econ.net at

• Notebook gallery added to the QuantEcon site

  22 Dec 2015

  We've added a notebook gallery to the QuantEcon organization site in order to collect Jupyter notebooks

• NY Fed's DSGE model ported to Julia

  5 Dec 2015

  The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has converted its main DSGE model from Matlab to Julia

• Python site updated to Python 3.5

  2 Dec 2015

  The entire Python side of the website has now been updated to Python 3.5, along with all

• New lecture on discrete DP

  15 Sep 2015

  We have added a new lecture on infinite horizon discrete dynamic programming problems

• New lecture on uncertainty traps

  13 Sep 2015

  A new lecture on uncertainty traps has been added to the the Python side

• New lecture on default risk

  2 Sep 2015

  We have added a new lecture on default risk and income fluctuations

• New on-line documentation

  5 Aug 2015

  Largely thanks to the efforts of our RAs Chase Coleman and Spencer Lyon

• QuantEcon website up

  10 Dec 2014

  Our lectures draw heavily on code from two parallel code libraries

• Julia now supported!

  3 Oct 2014

  After a fair bit of work we're finally ready to set loose on the world a Julia version

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant awarded

  16 Jun 2014

  We are delighted to announce that the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

• Code library reorganizing

  10 Jun 2014

  The past few weeks have been spent reorganizing the code library, combining the