Solving finite mixture models: Efficient computation in economics under serial and parallel execution

DOI10.1007/s10614-005-6413-3zbMath1161.91367OpenAlexW2112115577MaRDI QIDQ1020507

Christopher Ferrall

Publication date: 29 May 2009

Published in: Computational Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-005-6413-3

zbMATH Keywords

numerical optimizationheterogeneous agent models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical mathematical programming methods (65K05) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26)

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Uses Software

• NLPQLP
• Ox

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