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.
For announcements such as new projects, grants, people and workshops, see News.
October 2026
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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.
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Python Programming for Economics and Finance
Revised the Pandas for Panel Data and Adventures with Autodiff lectures.
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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
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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.
- [wealth_dynamics] Retarget the JAX cross-reference after the lecture-jax rename #291
- [pandas_panel] Take programming's text, so both series publish one lecture #293
- Resync ge_arrow and misspecified_recovery to current source (recovers the 2026-09-20 and 2026-10-09 sync failures) #292
- Bayes_nonconj: declare the truncated log-normal prior's (0, 1] support (numpyro 0.22) #288
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Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python
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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.
- Rename mle to mle_intro so lecture names are unique across the published sites #857
- Rename lln_clt to lln_clt_intro so lecture names are unique across the published sites #856
- Rename lake_model to lake_model_intro so lecture names are unique across the published sites #855
- Add wealth_tax lecture: estimating wealth tax revenue #852
- Rewrite MLE as an elementary lecture on maximum likelihood #849
- Reorganize table of contents #848
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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.
- [ge_arrow] Add the rational expectations reading of Arrow's sequential equilibrium #1084
- [wealth_dynamics] Retarget the JAX cross-reference after the lecture-jax rename #1082
- [ak2, ak_aiyagari, two_computation] Correct math and economics, add exercises #1078
- Bayes_nonconj: declare the truncated log-normal prior's (0, 1] support (numpyro 0.22) #1065
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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
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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.
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A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python
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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.
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A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python
September 2026
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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.
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Python Programming for Economics and Finance
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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.
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Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python
August 2026
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A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python
Added the Simplified Chinese translation of the Measuring Mobility lecture.
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A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python
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A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python
Added two new lectures, Measuring Mobility and Bivariate Distributions.
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A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python
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A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python
Added a new lecture, Fitting Distributions to Data.
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A First Course in Quantitative Economics with Python
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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
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Python Programming for Economics and Finance
Enabled the language switcher between the English, Persian, French and Simplified Chinese editions.
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Python Programming for Economics and Finance
July 2026
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Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python
Added missing
quanteconandjaxinstalls to nine lectures.Add pip install cells for quantecon and jax in lectures that were missing them #1006
- ContinuousDPs.jl v0.3.1
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Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python
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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.
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Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python
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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
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Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python
Added missing
pip installcells to four lectures.
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Advanced Quantitative Economics with Python
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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.
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Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python
June 2026
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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
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Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python
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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.
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Intermediate Quantitative Economics with Python
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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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Advanced Quantitative Economics with Python
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