Quantitative Economics (Python)

A code library for quantitative economic modeling in Python

Libary Website: http://quantecon.org/python_index.html

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License

Copyright © 2013-2017 Thomas J. Sargent and John Stachurski: BSD-3 All rights reserved.

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Major Changes

Ver 0.3.7 (01-November-2017)

1. FEAT: Add random_state option to arma.py with tests. See PR #329
2. FEAT: New features for timing functions. See PR #340
3. Improved test coverage (PR #343)
4. FEAT: Add option to supply a random seed for discrete_rv, lqcontrol, lqnash, lss, and quad (PR #346)
5. FIX: RBLQ: add pure forecasting case (PR #355)
6. FEAT: jit the 1d quadrature routines (PR #352)
7. FIX: Replace np.isfinite(cn) with cn * EPS < 1 (PR #361)
8. FEAT: Add option to solve_discrete_riccati to use scipy.linalg.solve_discrete_are (PR #362)
9. FIX: Bugfix to solve_discrete_riccati (PR #364)
10. Minor Fixes (PR #342)

Ver 0.3.6.2 (27-August-2017)

1. FIX: support_enumeration: Use _numba_linalg_solve. See PR #311
2. Updated Docstrings for better math rendering. See PR #315
3. ENH: added routines to convert ddp between full and SA formulations. See PR #318
4. Added tests for Distributions. See PR #324
5. Added tests for lemke howson exceptions. See PR #323
6. Added vertex_enumeration to game theory module. See PR #326
7. Added is_dominated method to game_theory.player. See PR #327
8. Minor Updates (PR #320, PR #321, PR #328)

Ver 0.3.5.1 (17-May-2017)

1. Add rouwenhorst method for approx AR(1) with MC. See PR #282
2. Added tests to improve coverage (PR #282, PR #303, PR #309)
3. Minor Fixes (PR #296, PR #297)

Ver. 0.3.4 (23-February-2017)

1. Add support_enumeration, a simple algorithm that computes all mixed-action Nash equilibria of a non-degenerate 2-player game. See PR #263
2. Various fixes for issues with numba. See PR #265, PR #283
3. Add lemke_howson algorithm to game_theory module. See PR #268
4. Add random game generators to game_theory module. See PR #270
5. Implement the imitation game algorithm by McLennan and Tourky. See PR #273
6. Add brute force for finding pure nash equilibria. See PR #276
7. Improve parameter names to QuantEcon.notebooks dependency fetcher. See PR #279
8. Utilities tic, tac and toc moved to top level namespace of package. See PR #280

Ver. 0.3.3 (21-July-2016)

1. Remove python2.7 classifiers project only supports python3.5+
2. Migrate sa_indices to be a utility function for the markov submodule
3. Updates probvec to include a multi-core parallel option using numba infrastructure in quantecon/random/utilities.py

Ver. 0.3.2 (25-April-2016)

1. Minor changes to NormalFormGame. See PR #226
2. Update tauchen code to make use of Numba. See PR #227
3. Remove Python 2.7 from test environment. Will support Python 3.5+
4. Updated qe.util.nb_fetch to not overwrite files by default
5. Remove num_actions from DiscreteDP. See PR #236
6. Add states/nodes to MarkovChain/DiGraph. See PR #237
7. Updated DiscreteDP to include backward_induction (DiscreteDP now accepts beta=1). See PR #244
8. Numba is now a formal dependency.
9. Modified tauchen to return a MarkovChain instance. See PR #250

Ver. 0.3.1 (22-January-2016)

1. Adds the quantecon/game_theory/ sub package
2. Updates api for using distributions as a module qe.distributions

Ver. 0.3

1. Removes quantecon/models subpackage and the collection of code examples. Code has been migrated to the QuantEcon.applications repository.
2. Adds a utility for fetching notebook dependencies from QuantEcon.applications to support community contributed notebooks.