Manuel Alejandro Cardenete is Professor of Economics and Vice-rector of Postgraduate Studies at the Universidad Loyola Andalucía (ULA). He is an Associated Researcher at the Universidad Autonóma de Chile and Principal Researcher of HISPAREAL (Hispalis Regional Economics Applications Laboratory). He has co-authored several books including Designing Public Policies, Springer, 2010. He has also published articles in scholarly journals such as Economic Modelling, European Planning Studies, Journal of Forecasting, Environment and Planning A, Regional Studies, Journal of Industrial Ecology and Economic Systems Research. He was Chair of the Department of Economics at ULA (2013-2016), Senior Economist in the European Commission (2011-2013), Professor at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (2000-2013) and Visiting Researcher at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002).

Ana-Isabel Guerra

Ferran Sancho is Professor in the Department of Economics at the Universitat A

Provides the minimal analytical background for successful model implementation

Includes step-by-step procedures for building empirically oriented large-scale economic models

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Integrates basic modeling tips with data handling to provide an empirical background to economic models

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Introduction.- An Overview of General Equilibrium Theory.- A Simple General Equilibrium Model.- A General Equilibrium Model with a Government Sector.- Further Extensions of the Model: External Sector, Labor Market, Consumption Technology and Welfare Evaluation.- Data Base and Model Calibration.- Real-World Examples of Applied General Equilibrium Analysis.