Table Of Contents

• Front Page
  • Introduction
    • Description
    • First things first
    • Features at a Glance
  • Documentation
    • Introduction
    • Series of Brief Tutorials
    • API Documentation
    • Reference
  • Download & Installation
    • Introduction
    • Dependencies
    • Option 1
    • Option 2
    • Option 3
  • Credit & Thanks
  • Online Resources
• What is PyMacLab?
• PyMacLab Philosophy
• Macroeconomic Analysis in Python
  • Advantages of PyMacLab in Python
  • Disadvantages of PyMacLab in Python
• PyMacLab Tutorial Series
  • Tutorial 1 - Getting started
    • Introduction
  • Tutorial 2 - The PyMacLab model file
    • The PyMacLab DSGE model file
    • A Description of the model file’s individual sections
    • More than one way to feed in model properties
  • Tutorial 3 - The PyMacLab DSGE instance
    • Introduction
    • Understanding the PyMacLab DSGE model class and its instances
    • Instantiation options for DSGE model instances
    • Working with DSGE model instances
    • DSGE modelling made intuitive
  • Tutorial 4 - The Python DSGE instance updater methods
    • Introduction
    • One-off alteration of one specific model property
    • Altering many model properties and queued processing
  • Tutorial 5 - Steady State Solution Methods
    • Introduction
    • Option 1: Using the model’s declared FOCs and passing arguments at model instantiation
    • Option 2: Using the model’s declared FOCs and passing arguments inside the model file
    • Option 3: Supplying the non-linear steady state system in the model file
    • Option 4: Use the numerical root finder to solve for some steady states and get remaining ones residually
    • Option 5: Use the numerical root finder to solve for steady states with pre-computed starting values
    • Option 6: Computing the steady state values dictionary entirely outside of PyMacLab and passing it
    • Option 7: Finding the steady state by only supplying information in the Closed Form section
    • More about the steady state and its relevance to perturbation methods - A Detour
  • Tutorial 6 - Dynamic Solution Methods
    • Introduction
    • The Jacobian and Hessian: A Detour
    • Dynamic Solution Methods - Nth-order Perturbation
    • Choosing the degree of approximation
  • Tutorial 7 - Simulating DSGE models
    • Introduction
    • Simulating the model
    • Cross-correlation tables
    • Simulating while keeping random shocks fixed
    • Generating impulse-response functions
  • Tutorial 8 - PyMacLab-to-Dynare++ Converter
    • Introduction
    • The mk_dynare() solution method’s options
• Release History
  • 0.95.9 (2012-12-16)
  • 0.95.8 (2012-12-15)
  • 0.95.1 (2012-10-8)
  • 0.90.1 (2012-9-27)
  • 0.89.1 (2012-9-11)
  • 0.88.1 (2012-9-3)
  • 0.85 (2012-08-30)
  • 0.8 (2012-08-21)
• Copyright & License