Computational Economics
Peking University · School of Economics · Spring 2026
Answering macroeconomic questions with quantitative methods.
| Lecturer | Bo Li · libo.econ@pku.edu.cn · School of Economics, Room 608 |
| TA | Chen Gao · chengao0716@gmail.com |
| Time & place | Tuesdays 13:00–14:50 · Teaching Building 1, Room 309 |
| Homework | Problem sets are hosted on this site · submission, deadlines & announcements on the Notion page |
This site collects the full set of lecture materials for the semester. Each lecture provides slides (HTML for in-browser viewing, PDF for download), runnable Jupyter notebooks, and supplementary notes. Languages and tools: Python, JAX, Git, Quarto. See Setup & how to run to install the environment and run the notebooks.
Schedule
| Date | Topic | Lecture |
|---|---|---|
| 03-03 | Course introduction | Course Outline |
| 03-03 | Introduction to Python | 01 Introduction to Python |
| 03-10 / 03-17 | Brock–Mirman growth model | 02 Brock–Mirman Growth Model |
| 03-24 / 03-31 | RBC model and JAX | 03 RBC and JAX |
| 04-07 | Aiyagari model | 04 The Aiyagari Model |
| 04-14 | Krusell–Smith method | 05 The Krusell–Smith Method |
| 04-21 | Macro public finance | 06 Macro Public Finance |
| 04-28 | Structural estimation | 07 Structural Estimation |
| 05-05 | (University anniversary holiday) | — |
| 05-12 | Continuous-time heterogeneous-agent models | 08 Continuous-Time Heterogeneous Agent Models |
| 05-19 | Sequence-space Jacobian and the IKC | 09 Sequence-Space Jacobian – IKC |
| 05-26 / 06-02 | AI solution methods | 10 Deep Learning Methods |
| 06-09 | EconGym | Materials TBA |
Two additional prep lectures are not in the schedule above — see “Supplementary topics” in the sidebar: HANK and High Performance Computing.