Advanced GEMPACK Course

Instructors: GEMPACK developers and other CoPS staff.

This one- or two-day GEMPACK training course presents several practical exercises aimed at the experienced user, with a focus on topics that go beyond running simulations and analysis of results. Basic GEMPACK skills are assumed. Participants are to bring their own laptops. Lunch, morning and afternoon tea will be provided.

Preliminary Program

The course will be delivered as a sequence of exercises through which participants work under the guidance of the tutors. Each exercise focuses on a particular topic aimed at extending and improving your productivity as a GEMPACK user.

Topics are selected from:

• Using the Windows command prompt with GEMPACK
• Coding the Kmeans algorithm in TABLO
• Extracting solutions with SLTOHT (report generation and post-processing solutions)
• Arithmetic errors and singular matrix
• Automatic Closure with Minimal
• Condensation (tuning a model for faster runtimes)
• Replaceable parameters in CMF files (automatically run many simulations and process results)
• Using AGGHAR (aggregate a database with a sectoral mapping and aggregation weights for elasticities)
• Using SAGEM (investigate the response of industry outputs and prices to individual shocks to all export demands)
• Matrix scaling (RAS a 3-dimensional matrix)
• Using RunDynam more effectively (make policy the base, running simulations from batch scripts)

but the list above may be changed or extended.

Course Fees and Registration

The cost is AU$750 per day in Australia, but may vary for particular course offerings depending on location.

To register for the course please send an email to louise.pinchen@vu.edu.au with the following details.

You will recieve payment information by reply email.