MICROWAVE: A GENERIC FRAMEWORK FOR MICRO SIMULATIONBASED EX ANTE POLICY EVALUATION

Jacques Wolfert, Jan Lepoutre, Wietse Dol, Steven van Passel, Hennie van der Veen and Foppe Bouma

No 29143, Paper Series from Agricultural Economics Research Institute

Abstract: This paper presents the MicroWave approach that has been developed to improve the process of modeling in the context of micro simulation. It leads to a more efficient model development, better quality of models and their output and improvement in knowledge management. A conceptual framework has been developed and translated into a hierarchical structure of GAMS program code. Besides, several software applications and other tools have been developed for support. These products are presented and some examples illustrate how MicroWave can be applied. MicroWave is especially useful in interdisciplinary research in which different persons are involved in the modeling process and when different models have to be combined.

Keywords: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005

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