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I would like to run the Federal Reserves econometric model on open source software - they sent me the specifications for the model and what is neccessary to run the model on TROLL (which is a commercially available econometric software) I am looking into the feasability of doing this and whether or not R is the right tool - I would like to discuss the idea with someone who is familiar with this

Hi, The department of economics at our university (Budapest) is planning a course on numerical methods in economics. They are trying to decide which software to use for that, and I would like to advocate R. The other alternative is Matlab. I have found comparisons in terms of computational time for matrix algebra, but I don't think that is relevant: the bottleneck for economists is usually

Hi, I would like to estimate a VAR of the form: Ay_t = By_t-1 + Cy_t-2 + ... + Dx_t + e_t Where A is a non-diagonal matrix of coefficients, B and C are matricies of coefficients and D is a matrix of coefficients for the exogenous variables. I don't think the package {vars} can do this because I want to include contemporaneous cross-variable impacts. So I want y1_t to affect y2_t and I

Dear helpeRs, a colleague of mine would like to give R a try. He uses econometric models which typically involve a large number of variables, esp. time series. Having no experience with handling very large data sets myself I turn to you. 1. Could you please describe your experiences to cope with these situations? 2. What kind of difficulties will he have to face? Are there special