Solving and simulating models with heterogeneous agents and aggregate uncertainty

Y Algan, O Allais, WJ Den Haan, P Rendahl - Handbook of computational …, 2014 - Elsevier
Although almost nonexistent 15 years ago, there are now numerous papers that analyze
models with both aggregate uncertainty and a large number—typically a continuum—of …

Numerically stable and accurate stochastic simulation approaches for solving dynamic economic models

KL Judd, L Maliar, S Maliar - Quantitative Economics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We develop numerically stable and accurate stochastic simulation approaches for solving
dynamic economic models. First, instead of standard least‐squares approximation methods …

Merging simulation and projection approaches to solve high‐dimensional problems with an application to a new Keynesian model

L Maliar, S Maliar - Quantitative Economics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We introduce a numerical algorithm for solving dynamic economic models that merges
stochastic simulation and projection approaches: we use simulation to approximate the …

Numerical methods for large-scale dynamic economic models

L Maliar, S Maliar - Handbook of computational economics, 2014 - Elsevier
We survey numerical methods that are tractable in dynamic economic models with a finite,
large number of continuous state variables.(Examples of such models are new Keynesian …

Solving the multi-country real business cycle model using a Smolyak-collocation method

BA Malin, D Krueger, F Kubler - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2011 - Elsevier
We describe a sparse-grid collocation method to compute recursive solutions of dynamic
economies with a sizable number of state variables. We show how powerful this method can …

Matlab, Python, Julia: What to Choose in Economics?

C Coleman, S Lyon, L Maliar, S Maliar - Computational Economics, 2021 - Springer
We perform a comparison of Matlab, Python and Julia as programming languages to be
used for implementing global nonlinear solution techniques. We consider two popular …

Solving the multi-country real business cycle model using ergodic set methods

S Maliar, L Maliar, K Judd - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2011 - Elsevier
We use the stochastic simulation algorithm, described in Judd et al.(2009), and the cluster-
grid algorithm, developed in Judd et al.(2010a), to solve a collection of multi-country real …

Envelope condition method with an application to default risk models

C Arellano, L Maliar, S Maliar, V Tsyrennikov - Journal of Economic …, 2016 - Elsevier
We develop an envelope condition method (ECM) for dynamic programming problems–a
tractable alternative to expensive conventional value function iteration (VFI). ECM has two …

Comparison of solutions to the multi-country real business cycle model

R Kollmann, S Maliar, BA Malin, P Pichler - Journal of Economic Dynamics …, 2011 - Elsevier
We compare the performance of perturbation, projection, and stochastic simulation
algorithms for solving the multi-country RBC model described in Den Haan et al.(this issue) …

Tractable latent state filtering for non-linear DSGE models using a second-order approximation and pruning

R Kollmann - Computational Economics, 2015 - Springer
This paper develops a novel approach for estimating latent state variables of Dynamic
Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models that are solved using a second-order …