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Advanced DSGE Modelling and Bayesian Estimation

TRAINING DATES: 17th November 2025 –21 November 2025
COUNTRY: UAE-Dubai

Overview

Course Content

Session/DayLecture Topic Lab session
Module 1
New KeynesianModel with adjustment costs on investment and the under-utilization of maximum installed capacity
-A brief theoretical review: adjustment costs on investment and the under-utilization of maximum installed capacity
-Adjustment Cost on Investment
-Cost of under-utilization of maximum installed capacity
-The model o Households o Firms o The model’s equilibrium condition
-Steady state
-Log-linearization (Uhlig’s method)
-Productivity Shock

Hands on:

  • Introduction to Matlab/Julia

Key features of Dynare

Module 2
Module 6 New-Keynesian Model with government
-A brief theoretical review: Government
-Introducing taxes into the DSGE models
-Government budget constraints
-Public investment
-Alternative forms of government in the DSGE models
-Taylor’s Rule
-The model o Households o Firms o Government o Model’s equilibrium condition o Steady state
-Log-linearization (Uhlig’sMethod)
-Monetary and fiscal policy productivity shocks and analysis of the Laffer curve
-Productivity and monetary shocks
-Fiscal policy shocks
-Using taxation for fiscal adjustment
-The Laffer curve

Hands on:

  • Dynare Code in Julia
  • Compute Steady state
  • Solving Model

Simulating model

Module 3
Bayesian Estimation of Models
-The An and Schorfheide Model
-A Non-Linear Variant of the An and Schorfheide Model

Hands on:

Estimation of the models

Module 4
Bayesian Estimation
-A Small Open Economy DSGE Model: The Lubik and Schorfheide
-A Model with Money Demand and Money Supply: Fagan, Lothian and McNelis

Hands on:

  • Dynare Code in Julia

Estimation

Module 5
Bayesian Estimation of large scale models
-1.A Medium-Sized Closed Economy DSGE Model: Smets and Wouters • The Sticky Price and Wage Equations • The Flexible Price and Wage Equations . • The Exogenous Variables • The Steady-State Equations • The Measurement Equations
-2.Quest III Model for Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Hands on:

  • Dynare Code in Julia

Estimation