GAMS training for economists and policy analysts working with Computable General Equilibrium models and applied economic modelling.
Delivered as open-enrolment courses and as bespoke in-house programmes tailored to institutional clients' policy questions and data. 35+ years of CGE modelling experience across 60+ countries for clients including the World Bank, IMF, ADB, EU, and bilateral donors.
Modules 1 to 5 comprise the core programme, 5 days total. Module 6 is an optional advanced extension with an additional 2 days.
Duration: 1 day
Microeconomic foundations, utility-maximising households, profit-maximising firms, market-clearing conditions, Walras’ Law, the numéraire, and macroeconomic closure rules.
The module concludes with a fully calibrated small-scale GAMS model.
Duration: 1 day
Full pipeline from published input-output tables to a balanced SAM, including government transactions and the capital account, RAS and entropy reconciliation, and GAMS fundamentals such as set-index notation, parameter declarations, equation syntax, solve statements, and benchmark-consistent calibration from scratch.
Duration: 1 day
Opening the capital and government accounts. Direct taxes, VAT, excise duties, and trade taxes. Alternative fiscal closure rules.
Counterfactual simulations include tax reform, expenditure switching, and transfer re-targeting, with equivalent-variation welfare decompositions.
Duration: 1 day
Armington imperfect substitution, CET export supply, balance-of-payments constraints, and external closure rules.
Policy simulations include tariff liberalisation, export subsidies, SPS measures, and terms-of-trade shocks, with interpretation of real versus nominal exchange rates.
Duration: 1 day
Period-to-period capital accumulation, TFP and population growth paths, and vintage labour projections.
Participants work with GAMS loop structures and a full reporting framework including Excel-linked output tables, difference and percentage-change decompositions, and presentation-ready charts.
Duration: 2 days
Architecture of multi-regional models, Armington linkages and bilateral trade flows, inter-regional SAM compilation from national accounts, trade statistics, and survey data, and GAMS implementation for large sparse systems.
The module also covers recursive dynamics across multiple periods and regions. Applications include regional development policy, fiscal federalism, cross-border trade agreements, and climate policy spillovers.
Available as open-enrolment courses (5 or 7 days) and as bespoke in-house programmes (1–4 weeks) built around institutional clients' policy mandate and data.
For course dates, in-house training proposals, or a bespoke curriculum enquiry:
Email: PG@griffinCGE.com
Website: www.GriffinCGE.com
