Applied General Equilibrium

Manuel Alejandro Cardenete is Professor of Economics and Vice-rector of Postgraduate Studies at the Universidad Loyola Andalucia (ULA). He is an Associated Researcher at the Universidad Autonoma de Chile and Principal Researcher of HISPAREAL (Hispalis Regional Economics Applications Laboratory). He has co-authored several books including Designing Public Policies, Springer, 2010. He has also published articles in scholarly journals such as Economic Modelling, European Planning Studies, Journal of Forecasting, Environment and Planning A, Regional Studies, Journal of Industrial Ecology and Economic Systems Research. He was Chair of the Department of Economics at ULA (2013-2016), Senior Economist in the European Commission (2011-2013), Professor at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (2000-2013) and Visiting Researcher at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002). Ana-Isabel Guerra Energy Economics, Economic Modeling, Economic Systems Research and Energy Efficiency. She has visited other research centers and universities: the Fraser of Allander Institute, Strathclyde University, in Scotland in 2008, the Universidad Pablo de Olavide of Seville in 2010, the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, at Rutgers University, in 2011 and the University of Groeningen in 2014. She is currently collaborating with the supervision of end-of-master projects in the Official Master in Economics of the University of Granada in topics related to applied general equilibrium models and analysis. Ferran Sancho is Professor in the Department of Economics at the Universitat A utonoma de Barcelona since 1992. His articles have appeared in the International Economic Review, the European Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Theory, Economic Modelling, and the Journal of Forecasting, among others. He has visited the University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and 2003, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in 1992, the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in 2010, the Universidad Loyola Andalucia in 2016, and the Universitat de Barcelona in 2017. He has also been Chair of the Department of Economics, Vice-chancellor, and President of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.

Introduction.- An Overview of General Equilibrium Theory.- A Simple General Equilibrium Model.- A General Equilibrium Model with a Government Sector.- Further Extensions of the Model: External Sector, Labor Market, Consumption Technology and Welfare Evaluation.- Data Base and Model Calibration.- Real-World Examples of Applied General Equilibrium Analysis.