Models
Economists reach for different models when the question changes. The section keeps that match visible, from theory and structure to empirical forecasting jobs built around data, diagnostics, and comparison.
Section NotesModels
Purpose frames the job, Frameworks keeps the method legible, and Focus / Routes carries that choice into the live model layer.
What to do here
Launch the workspace that matches the job.
The point of this page is not to catalog model names. It is to get you into the right live workspace with the minimum possible confusion.
Visibility rule
A card only belongs here if the route can open cleanly and do something useful on first visit.
That means valid defaults, no first-load failure, and a real result or a clear constrained state. Routes that cannot do that yet stay out of the launcher.
Simple Theoretical Models
Low-dimensional frameworks for tracing one mechanism at a time: demand policy, labor-inflation tradeoffs, AS-AD, and long-run growth families from Solow to AK, MRW, and Malthusian adjustment.
What it does — Mechanism-first explanation
What it needs — Stylized theory and cartoon data facts
Interactive workbench is live.
Empirical Forecasting Models
Empirical forecasting grew with modern economic measurement. The family organizes the work by job: one target series, a few interacting variables, or a simplified economy-wide platform with diagnostics along the way.
What it does — Data-driven forecasting and live monitoring
What it needs — Observed macro time series
Univariate, multivariate, nowcasting, and regime routes are ready now.
Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium
Forward-looking structural systems used to formalize policy analysis, expectations, and intertemporal macro adjustment.
What it does — Structural policy analysis
What it needs — Structured equations, shocks, and policy rules
Toy and estimation-first labs are live; the route stays structured and curated.
Agent-Based Computational Models
Bottom-up macro simulations for studying what emerges when heterogeneous households, firms, banks, and policymakers follow local rules and interact over time.
What it does — Distribution and network effects
What it needs — Agent rules, interactions, and simulation
The flagship housing and credit lab is live now.