Online Summer School on Advanced Macro-Modelling
Key information
- Start date:
- 14 September 2026
- Attendance dates:
14, 15, 16, 17, 18 September 2026
- Time commitment:
- 5 days
- Venue:
- Distance learning
- Contact details:
- Centre for International Macroeconomic Studies
- Email: cims@surrey.ac.uk
Overview
This online course running 14 - 18 September 2026 is held by the Centre for International Macroeconomic Studies (CIMS) in the School of Economics, ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½.
This advanced course is aimed at researchers who are already fluent in Dynare and DSGE modelling or who wish to learn directly more advanced techniques. It will be useful for advanced PhD students, academic researchers, and central bank researchers engaged in macroeconomic modelling work. This advanced course covers models that are either computationally expensive to simulate, nonlinear, require additional recursive assumptions, or have infinite dimensional state-spaces thanks to heterogeneous agents and optimal taxation.
Given the very successful experience of the previous years we have decided to keep the online format for the Summer School. This enables many participants to attend from all over the world without the need to travel.
This course will be conducted using the Microsoft Teams meeting platform. The University and the lecturers have extensive experience with online teaching and have state-of-the-art systems to do so as well as being able to deliver highly interactive lectures. Though we will do our best to record all the sessions, we are expecting participants to attend them live to enable them to interact with lectures and ask questions. Participants will be sent computer codes, lecture notes, and slides ahead of time. Participants will also receive direct assistance before the Summer School starts in order to set up all the systems ahead of the online events.
Course content
The advanced course is aimed at people who are already fluent in Dynare and Matlab, but are finding that their ambition currently exceeds what they are able to do with these tools. We aim to distribute some of the numerical and computational tricks we have picked up over the course of our careers to enable people to tackle non-standard models. This course will be useful to anyone who is engaged in practical macroeconomic modelling work, especially if they are interested in working with models that are either computationally expensive to simulate, nonlinear, or infinite dimensional thanks to heterogeneous agents or optimal taxation.
Course contributors
Cristiano Cantore
Professor
Dr Hyungseok Joo
Lecturer in Economics
Dr Donghyun Park
PhD Research Student
Professor Mario Pascoa
Professor of Economics
Professor Ricardo Praca Cavaco Nunes
Professor of Economics
Dr Kirill Shakhnov
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Dr Hitoshi Tsujiyama
Associate Professor
Dr Vytautas Valaitis
Senior Lecturer
Entry requirements
Applicants must have a:
- Background in macroeconomics with some knowledge of macro-modelling and dynamic optimisation
- Basic knowledge of Matlab programming (see an overview of the Matlab features our participants are expected to know)
- Working knowledge of English.
Fees and funding
Prices per person:
£525
Student£1,000
Academic£1,350
Non-academic participantsHow to apply
Please complete the application form to register your place.
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Course location and contact details
Campus location
Stag HillThis course is based at Stag Hill campus. Stag Hill is the University's main campus and where the majority of our courses are taught.
- Email: cims@surrey.ac.uk
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