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Software I use on a day to day basis:
  • Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, I am playing with it now. The Ubuntu Forum is very helpful for beginners like me.
  • Latex is the most popular typesetting system, I use it for slides and articles. I use WinEdt in Windows and Kile in Linux as the TeX editor.
  • FireZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client and server with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface.
  • SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor for Windows.
  • OpenOffice a great substitute for Microsoft Office.
  • Firefox is the BEST internet browser around, heaps of addons and features. I don't understand why people still use IE.
  • Thunderbird is a small email program, again heaps of addons and features.

Computational software:
  • Matlab is the most powerful higher level matrix programming language. Professional version is very expensive but the student version is not so bad.
  • Gauss is the most popular higher level matrix programming package among economists. Powerful and very efficient though it does not have as many build-in functions (or procedures) as Matlab.
  • JMulTi is a simple open source software for Time Series Analysis written in Java. A friend highly recommends this to me, the most important is it's free.
  • GemPack is a suite of general-purpose economic modelling software especially suitable for general and partial equilibrium models. It can handle a wide range of economic behaviour, written by Monash University. My friend Arief Yusuf, also a PhD student in RSPAS, is an expert with it, email him here.

Useful code:
  • Frank Schorfheide has a good selection of code written in Gauss for simulating and estimating DSGE using Bayesian methods.
  • DYNARE: A set program for the simulation of rational expectation models. Can be used in conjunction with Matlab, Gauss and Scilab.
  • Haral Uhlig's toolkit for analyzing nonlinear economic dynamic models easily. Matlab programs.
  • Thomas Sargent has a very good set of Matlab programs that accompanies his forthcoming book "Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies" by Hansen and Sargent.