Summer schools
Online
CLOSED (open from 16 February 2026)
Lectures and Hands-on Computer Labs
This year, the Tools for Macroeconomists Summer School will run virtually only.
Overview
The Tools for Macroeconomists Summer School offers two courses: The Essentials and Advanced Tools. These intensive graduate-level courses are aimed at students, researchers and professionals and provide a combination of lectures and hands-on computer sessions. Participants will leave with a deep understanding of numerical methods and a portfolio of Matlab codes implementing them.
The Essentials: August 3-7, 2026
Advanced Tools: August 10-14, 2026.
Each course consists of a combination of (virtual) lectures, guided Q&A sessions and coding sessions. Participants can also submit their own work to our dedicated research workshop where up to 6 papers will be selected for presentation.
More information here: https://sites.google.com/view/toolsformacro
The Essentials
August 3-7, 2026
Pontus Rendahl and Petr Sedlacek
This course covers basic building blocks of solving, analyzing and estimating structural macroeconomic models. Students will use Dynare, but also learn how to write their own Matlab programs to solve and analyze models.
Topics include:
- Linearization, perturbation methods
- Simulation, calibration
- Kalman filter, basics of Bayesian estimation
Advanced Tools
August 10-14, 2026
Pontus Rendahl and Petr Sedlacek
This course teaches state-of-the-art methods for solving and analyzing advanced macro-economic models with a particular focus on non-linearities and heterogeneity. Participants will not only write their own code, but also discuss practical issues when using these advanced methods.
Topics include:
- Non-linear solution methods
- Continuous time methods
- Basics of solving heterogeneous agent models
