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Modelos de equilibrio general en Excel®: un modelo de intercambio puro

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  • Gustavo Hernández

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Al ensenar los modelos de equilibrio general los libros de texto de microeconomía se centran en las ideas que se pueden extraer del diagrama de Edgeworth para el intercambio. Las herramientas necesarias para analizar matemáticamente los modelos de equilibrio general abruman a muchos estudiantes menos a algunos que las han desarrollado a lo largo de su educación básica. Aquí se ofrece una alternativa que, sin dejar de ser rigurosa, puede ayudar a que muchos más estudiantes puedan comprender los aspectos conceptuales de esta clase de modelos. Para esto se desarrolla un modelo de equilibrio general de intercambio puro, el cual es resuelto explícitamente, para luego ser desarrollado en una hoja de cálculo. De esta manera, al cambiar los parámetros y variables exógenas del modelo se pueden explicar y profundizar diferentes aspectos de esta clase de modelos, sin que el estudiante llegue a perderse en problemáticos desarrollos algebraicos. *** In teaching general equilibrium models, microeconomics textbooks focus on ideas that can be drawn from the Edgeworth diagram for the exchange. The tools needed to mathematically analyze general equilibrium models overwhelm far fewer students than some who have developed them throughout their basic education. Here is an alternative that, while remaining rigorous, can help many more students to understand the conceptual aspects of this class of models. For this, a general equilibrium model of pure exchange is developed, which is explicitly solved, to later be developed in a spreadsheet. In this way, by changing the parameters and exogenous variables of the model, different aspects of this class of models can be explained and deepened, without the student getting lost in problematic algebraic developments.

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  • Gustavo Hernández, 2021. "Modelos de equilibrio general en Excel®: un modelo de intercambio puro," Documentos de Trabajo, Escuela de Economía 19295, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID.
  • Handle: RePEc:col:000178:019295
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    Keywords

    equilibrio general; modelos económicos; modelos de equilibrio general computable.;
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    JEL classification:

    • A22 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Undergraduate
    • C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
    • D58 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models

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