Introduction to Computational Economics Using Fortran

by Hans Fehr; Maurice Hofmann; Fabian Kindermann

• ISBN13: 9780192590633
• ISBN10: 0192590634
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2020-01-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic UK

Summary

This exercise and solutions manual accompanies the main edition of Introduction to Computational Economics Using Fortran. It enables students of all levels to practice the skills and knowledge needed to conduct economic research using Fortran.

Introduction to Computational Economics Using Fortran is the essential guide to conducting economic research on a computer. Aimed at students of all levels of education as well as advanced economic researchers, it facilitates the first steps into writing programming language. This exercise and solutions manual is accompanied by a program database that readers are able to download.

Author Biography

Hans Fehr, Professor of Economics, University of Wuerzburg, Germany,Maurice Hofmann, Doctoral Student, University of Wuerzburg, Germany,Fabian Kindermann, Assistant Professor of Macroeconomics and Public Finance, University of Bonn, Germany

Hans Fehr is Professor of Economics at the University of Wuerzburg. His previous roles have included Assistant Professor at the University of Tuebingen and Postdoctoral Researcher at Boston University. Professor Fehr's main research interests are in the field of quantitative public economics. His past work has focused on analyzing the economic consequences of population aging and various tax policy and social security reforms by means of computable general equilibrium models with overlapping generations. His research has been published in the European Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Review of Economic Dynamics, and the Scandanavian Journal of Economics.


Maurce Hofman is a Doctoral Student at the University of Wuerzburg.

Fabian Kindermann is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn. He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University and an Assistant Professor at the University of Wuerzburg. His research interests are in public economics and macroeconomics, where he uses quantitative macroeconomic models to shed light on the determinants of economi inequality, study the implications of inequality for the optimal design of tax and social security systems, and investigate issues in family economics. His work has been published in the European Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Dynamics, and Computational Economics.