Research Opportunities in Computational Economics

Center for Economic Research Department of Economics The University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712

Report R-91-1

Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this report are those of the co-authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

This report was prepared at the request of John Wooley and Dan Newlon of the National Science Foundation and was co-authored by -

David Kendrick, Univ. of Texas, Editor

Barbara Bergmann, American University
Ivy Broder, American University
Martin David, Univ. of Wisconsin
John Geweke, Univ. of Minnesota
Kenneth Judd, Hoover Institution
Robert McGuckin, Bureau of the Census
John Miller, Carnegie-Mellon
Anna Nagurney, Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst
Ariel Pakes, Yale University
Laurence Rosenberg, National Science Foundation
John Rust, Univ. of Wisconsin
Christopher Sims, Yale University
Peter Tinsley, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Andrew Whinston, Univ. of Texas

The editor would like to express his appreciation to Ann Gallaway for assistance in copy editing the report.

Executive Summary

To the Reader:

This report has been written in two layers to facilitate those with different levels of interest in computational economics . The first layer is the Overview which begins on the next page. The Overview provides a summary of the document in about ten pages. Alternatively, the reader can skip the Overview and go directly to the Table of Contents and the Introduction.