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Training
The CGEMOD team has 30 years experience in the provision of onsite and online courses in CGE modelling.
From the autumn of 2025 ALL cgemod course will be open source. In recent years we have found that the vast majority of course participants do not need/use tutor support. Hence we no longer provide tutor support. All the course materials will be available from this site by following the links on the right hand side of this page.
All the courses use GAMS with GAMS Studio as the editor, while all the models used in the courses the data are presented as Social Accounting Matrices. We strongly recommend ‘taking’ the ‘Social Accounting Matrices’ and ‘Introduction to GAMS/GAMS Studio’ BEFORE taking any of the CGE courses.
NB: All the courses build on the ‘Introduction to Practical CGE Course’ using techniques covered in the ‘SAM Course’ and the ‘Intro to GAMS/GAMS Studio courses’. You will save time if you follow the recommended sequence.
Recommended Course Sequence
- Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) Course
- Introduction to GAMS/GAMS Studio
- Introduction to Practical Computable General Equilibrium Course (6 modules)
- Practical Single Country Computable General Equilibrium Course (4 Modules)
- Practical Global Computable General Equilibrium Course (4 modules)
- Recursive Dynamic Single Country or Global CGE Course ( modules)
The Single and Global courses assume you have completed the Intro to Practical CGE Course. The Recursive Dynamic courses assume you have completed the Intro to Practical CGE Course and at least one of the Single or Global Course.
GAMS License
- A Demo license is included with a GAMS distribution (see https://www.gams.com/sales/licensing/). This is adequate for the Introduction to Practical Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modelling course.
- The more advanced courses need a license with more generous size restrictions. If you do not have a GAMS licence for the Base GAMS module and the PATH solver (the SAM Estimation course requires PATH and CONOPT solvers and, ideally, the KNITRO solver) you need to contact GAMS (e: sales@gams.com). For licence options see https://www.gams.com/sales/licensing/ for details.
- After the course you should purchase a GAMS license.
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