Activity

A running log of what is changing across QuantEcon: library releases, updates to the lecture series, and updates to their translated editions. It is compiled from public activity on GitHub.

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October 2026

    1. Lecture update:
      Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python

      Added a new lecture, Which Moments to Match?, on Gallant and Tauchen's efficient method of moments, and updated Pandas for Panel Data.

    2. Lecture update:
      Python Programming for Economics and Finance

      Revised the Pandas for Panel Data and Adventures with Autodiff lectures.

    3. Lecture update:
      Quantitative Economics with JAX

      Updated the Adventures with Autodiff lecture to share text with the parallel lecture series.

      [autodiff] Take programming's text, so both series publish one lecture #357

    4. Translation: · Simplified Chinese
      Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python

      Updated the Simplified Chinese translations of Wealth Distribution Dynamics, Pandas for Panel Data, Non-Conjugate Priors, Competitive Equilibria with Arrow Securities, and Misspecified Recovery.

    5. Releases: · 2 releases · same day

      ContinuousDPs.jl v0.4.0 and GameTracer.jl v0.3.0

    1. Release:
      GameTheory.jl v0.8.0
    1. Releases: · 2 releases · same day

      BasisMatrices.jl v0.8.3 and QuantEcon.jl v0.20.0

    1. Lecture update:
      A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python

      Added a new lecture, Estimating Wealth Tax Revenue, rewrote Maximum Likelihood Estimation as an elementary introduction, and reorganized the table of contents.

    2. Lecture update:
      Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python

      Corrected math and economics and added exercises to Transitions in an Overlapping Generations Model, A Long-Lived, Heterogeneous Agents, Overlapping Generations Model, and Two Computations to Fund Social Security, and updated two further lectures.

    3. Lecture update:
      Quantitative Economics with JAX

      Renamed twelve lectures, including Default Risk and Income Fluctuations, Endogenous Grid Method, and Inventory Dynamics, to make lecture names unique across published sites.

      Rename twelve lectures so lecture names are unique across the published sites #353

    4. Translation: · Simplified Chinese
      A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python

      Updated the Simplified Chinese translations of several lectures, including A Lake Model of Employment, LLN and CLT, and Maximum Likelihood Estimation, with internal file renames to ensure unique lecture names across sites.

    1. Release:
      QuantEcon.py v0.13.0
    1. Translation: · Simplified Chinese
      A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python

      Added the Simplified Chinese translation of the Estimating Wealth Tax Revenue lecture and reorganized the table of contents, with related updates to the Heavy-Tailed Distributions lecture.

September 2026

    1. Translation: · French
      Python Programming for Economics and Finance

      Updated the French translations of Names and Namespaces, Functions, and NumPy, and applied consistency fixes across six further lectures.

    1. Lecture update:
      Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python

      Added three new lectures (Linear Quadratic Mean Field Games, Investment Under Uncertainty, and Optimal Growth Under Uncertainty and Tobin's q), and added exercises to the two auction lectures.

    1. Release:
      QuantEcon.py v0.12.0
    1. Release:
      GameTheory.jl v0.7.2
    1. Release:
      jlgametheory v0.3.0
    1. Release:
      GameTracer.jl v0.2.0
    1. Release:
      gametracer 0.2.2

August 2026

    1. Translation: · Simplified Chinese
      A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python

      Added the Simplified Chinese translation of the Measuring Mobility lecture.

      Add the Measuring Mobility lecture #299

    1. Lecture update:
      A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python

      Added two new lectures, Measuring Mobility and Bivariate Distributions.

    1. Release:
      jlgametheory v0.2.0
    1. Release:
      Expectations.jl v1.9.3
    1. Lecture update:
      A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python

      Added a new lecture, Fitting Distributions to Data.

      New lecture: Fitting Distributions to Data #814

    1. Lecture update:
      Python Programming for Economics and Finance

      Added a language switcher linking to the Persian, French and Simplified Chinese editions.

      Add language switcher support for fa, fr and zh-cn editions #490

    2. Translations: · 3 editions

      Python Programming for Economics and Finance

      Enabled the language switcher between the English, Persian, French and Simplified Chinese editions.

    1. Releases: · 4 releases · same day

      BasisMatrices.jl v0.8.2, ContinuousDPs.jl v0.3.2, GameTheory.jl v0.7.1 and QuantEcon.jl v0.19.0

July 2026

    1. Lecture update:
      Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python

      Added missing quantecon and jax installs to nine lectures.

      Add pip install cells for quantecon and jax in lectures that were missing them #1006

    2. Release:
      ContinuousDPs.jl v0.3.1
    1. Lecture update:
      Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python

      Added a new section of ten lectures on Phillips Curve Tradeoffs, and added figure captions and standardized CDF notation in the Incorrect Models lecture.

    1. Release:
      ContinuousDPs.jl v0.3.0
    1. Releases: · 5 releases · same day

      BasisMatrices.jl v0.8.1, ContinuousDPs.jl v0.2.1, GameTheory.jl v0.7.0, GameTracer.jl v0.1.2 and QuantEcon.py v0.11.4

    1. Release:
      QuantEcon.jl v0.18.0
    1. Release:
      QuantEcon.py v0.11.3
    1. Lecture update:
      Advanced Quantitative Economics with Python

      Added a new lecture, Dynamic Supply and Demand Curves.

      Adding Tom's lecture on dynamic supply and demand curves #352

    2. Lecture update:
      Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python

      Added missing pip install cells to four lectures.

      Add missing pip dependencies #951

    1. Release:
      ContinuousDPs.jl v0.2.0
    1. Lecture update:
      Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python

      Replaced the LQ Consumption Smoothing lecture with a trilogy of lectures on the LQ permanent income model, and added two lectures on unemployment dynamics, A Linear Model of Unemployment and Unemployment Dynamics with Asymmetric Shocks.

June 2026

    1. Lecture update:
      Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python

      Added three new lectures, including The Kalman Filter and Vector Autoregressions and Robust Permanent Income and Pricing.

      Adding Tom's new lectures on Kalman Filter and Robust Income #931

    1. Release:
      jlgametheory v0.1.2
    1. Lecture update:
      Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python

      Rewrote the Non-Conjugate Priors lecture, adding notes on NUTS and variational inference, and revised the exposition and notation of Another Look at the Kalman Filter.

    1. Releases: · 2 releases · same day

      GameTheory.jl v0.6.0 and GameTracer.jl v0.1.1

    1. Lecture update:
      Advanced Quantitative Economics with Python

      Added three lectures on contract theory under moral hazard and a lecture, Survey Data and Subjective Beliefs in Business Cycle Models.

      Add three lectures on contract theory and one lecture on survey data and robustness #343

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