ReplicationWiki is organising a series of online seminars about replication in Economics. There will be nine webinars that you can select from, taking place from September 8th on. You can find the full list here, but I will highlight two in particular: the first is on “Why replication? How is it done? Where to find replication material?” and will be run by The ReplicationWiki on Sept 8th, the other is “Replication in Quantitative Macroeconomics” and will be run by Robert Kirkby, the lead Dev on VFI Toolkit on Sept 29th.

Announcement on INET.YSI is here, full information is here. The webinars will be run as a ‘flipped classroom’, meaning a video will be made available prior and then the actual webinar session will be used for discussion. I want to highlight one aspect which is that we encourage you to undertake your own replication, giving you feedback via mutual peer review and support from experts to submit completed replications to academic journals.

If you are interested specifically in replicating a paper using VFI Toolkit, likely something in heterogeneous agent incomplete markets macroeconomics, please feel free to contact me directly, robertdkirkby@gmail.com. I will take a look at the paper, let you know if VFI Toolkit is capable of solving that model, and give you an idea what kind of hardware are run-times are likely to be required. If you want to get involved but don’t have a paper in mind, perhaps one of the following might interest you: Ventura (1999) – Flat tax reform: A quantitative exploration, Attanasio, Low & Sanchez-Marcos (2008) – Explaining changes in female labor supply in a life-cycle model.