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28th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis

Jun 25, 2025 Conference News Modeling News
The goal of the conference is to promote the exchange of ideas among economists conducting quantitative analysis of global economic issues. Particular emphasis will be placed on applied general equilibrium methods, data, and application. Related theoretical and applied work is also welcome.
GTAP Database in GDX format

Dec 21, 2021 Modeling News Gams Applications
The database provided by the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) is now also available in GDX format.
Grid Optimization Competition Challenge I winners announced: congratulations!

Feb 14, 2020 Modeling News
Given the crucial role power distribution plays for the economy, and the challenges posed by renewable energy and increasing demand for electricity, ARPA-E is running the Grid Optimization Competition, which challenges participating teams to develop and test power system optimization and control algorithms on a range of different synthetic and real network models.
Phasing out of 32-bit support with GAMS 30

Jan 6, 2020 GAMS Update Modeling News
22 years ago, in 1998, we released the first native 32 bit windows version of GAMS. This allowed modelers to implement much bigger models than possible before. A year later, we introduced our 32-bit IDE (for those of you young enough to remember, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 were state of the art back then).

Authors

Atharv Bhosekar

Aileen Boehme

Adam Christensen

Alexander Meeraus

André Schnabel

Bruce McCarl

Christophe Gouel

Clemens Westphal

Evangelos Panos

Fred Fiand

Freddy Proske

George Franco

Hans Lofgren

Justine Broihan

Julien Harou

Leonard Kunz

Logan Randolph

Lutz Westermann

Mohammed Basheer

Marius Bützler

Michael Bussieck

Mateo Gallia

Renke Kuhlmann

Robin Schuchmann

Steve Dirkse

Stefan Mann