Advanced GEMPACK Course, Kyoto, 16 June 2026

This course runs in conjunction with the 29th Annual GTAP Conference on Global Economic Analysis (17-19 June, 2026) at the Kyoto International Conference Center.

Basic information

Instructors: GEMPACK developers Florian Schiffmann and Dean Mustakinov.
Time and date: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, 16 June 2026.
Location: Room K, Level 2, Kyoto International Conference Center.
Refreshments: Lunch, morning and afternoon tea will be provided.
Cost and registration:

* An early career researcher must be an enrolled graduate student or have graduated within the last 5 years.

To register for the course please email louise.pinchen@vu.edu.au. For each participant please include name, email, institution (eg. Purdue University), and country of residence. You will recieve payment information by reply email.

Description

This one-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 instructors. Each exercise focuses on a particular topic aimed at extending and improving your productivity as a GEMPACK user.

Topics are selected from:

• Using the Runge-Kutta solution methods (new in GEMPACK 12.2) for accurate and fast simulations and diagnosing problems
• 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).

The list above may be changed or extended.

Laptop requirements

Participants are required to bring a Windows laptop running Windows 10 or 11 with

• at least 4GB memory
• Excel or other spreadsheet program
• and a power adapter for the Japanese power socket.

Course Software and exercises

Participants will receive the course materials which includes

• Source-code GEMPACK with a 6-month expiring single user licence
• GFortran compiler
• RunDynam with a 6-month expiring single user licence
• the course exercises and computer files.