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This page provides the slides and software used to introduce the study of inter-temporal life-cycle models of consumption and savings and support the development of code to solve these type of problems numerically. The code is developed for MATLAB for each of the models introduced in the slides.
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Deputy Research Director
Monica is a Deputy Research Director and Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol, with an interest in Labour, Family and Public Economics.
Research Associate Yale University
Cormac is a Research Associate of the IFS, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Yale University and Research Fellow at the NBER.
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Costa Dias, M and O'Dea, C. (2019). Dynamic Economics in practice. London: IFS.
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