::Short Course in Global Trade Analysis :: Course Grading
Weekly Assignments
The central tool for learning in this course will be weekly homework assignments designed to reinforce the
material covered in the lectures. Students will be asked to make use of the class bulletin board to ask
questions, help each other, or just gather some hints and feedback. Assignments are due by midnight on Sunday,
your time zone, unless specified otherwise in the course calendar.
The computer assignments will all be implemented in the context of the OneGTAP software interface to
GEMPACK. This is a Windows environment for conducting applied general equilibrium analysis with the
Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model, designed to allow users to focus on economics with the programming
details being largely taken care of behind the scenes.
The reception to this software in previous courses has been very positive, and its use has largely eliminated
the time required to get participants "up-to-speed" on the software front. OneGTAP runs GEMPACK programs
"behind the scenes". GEMPACK is an algebraic modeling language which permits the user to write out the model
in a transparent fashion, with no previous programming experience. It is specifically designed for application
to large-scale applied general equilibrium models in a policy-oriented environment.
