Online Summer School on Advanced Macro-Modelling

The Centre for International Macroeconomic Studies (CIMS) in the School of Economics, University of Surrey will a hold an online Summer course, 15 September - 19 September 2025.

The advanced course is aimed at researchers who are already fluent in Dynare and DSGE modelling or who wish to learn directly more advanced techniques. This course will be useful both for advanced PhD students, academic researchers, and central bank researchers engaged in macroeconomic modelling work. The advanced course covers models that are either computationally expensive to simulate, nonlinear, require additional recursive assumptions, or have infinite dimensional state-spaces thanks to heterogeneous agents and optimal taxation. Given the very successful experience of the previous years we have decided to keep the online format for the Summer school. This enables many participants to attend from all over the world without the need to travel. 

The course will be conducted using Team meeting platform. The University and the lecturers have extensive experience with online teaching and have state-of-the-art systems to do so as well as being able to deliver highly interactive lectures. Though we will do our best to record all the sessions, we are expecting participants to attend them live to enable them to interact with lectures and ask questions. Participants will be sent computer codes, lecture notes, and slides ahead of time. Participants will also receive direct assistance
before the Summer school starts in order to set up all the systems ahead of the online events.