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	<title>The Lazy Economist</title>
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	<description>Thoughts on Modelling and Statistics using Gams, Emacs and Stata or R</description>
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		<title>GAMS mode goodies: Looking up the identifier part of a parameter, variable or set</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the nice features of Gams-Mode for Emacs is the possibility to quickly look up the identifier part of a variable, parameter or set. This is a nice feature in big models or when you haven&#8217;t worked with the model for some time. Just put the cursor somewhere on the parameter in the code [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.modelworks.ch/?p=79</link>
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		<title>Emacs and Stata</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I am not a great fan of multi-tasking I often use a lot of programs simultaneously for one task: For example, when I am writing a report in Word or with Emacs, I take notes in Emacs, search the internet and have my model results in the gdx-viewer.  Additionally my mail client is somewhere in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.modelworks.ch/?p=75</link>
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		<title>Golden Rule 2: Comments and Descriptions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now this might be obvious if you have a lot of time, but usually the rule is forgotten if you are stressed and want to finish what you are working on. Not writing comments will probably cost you a lot of time, if you take your model a year from now and see your code: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.modelworks.ch/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Golden Rule 1: Display and use your intuition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first golden rule for modeling is: Always display the results of your calculations and check them with your expectations about the results. Often you are working on a model doing a lot of preparing calculations (calibrating the model, preparing the data). Those calculations might be easy, for example calculating the shares for some parameter, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.modelworks.ch/?p=67</link>
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		<title>Blog hacked and back again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, my blog was hacked (that happens sometimes if you do not update WordPress to the newest, secure version&#8230;). I have reinstalled my blog and will post my past blogs to it in the next few days. Sorry if you get the old posts again in your RSS feader&#8230; I haven&#8217;t written for a long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.modelworks.ch/?p=47</link>
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		<title>Guidelines for Posting to the Gams Mailing List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gams mailing list can be very helpful. There are a lot of people who are willing to use their free time to answer your questions. My advice: subscribe to the mailing list at http://www.listserv.dfn.de/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=gams-l&#038;A=1 ( and even if you don&#8217;t post to it, you can learn a lot of the questions and answers by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.modelworks.ch/?p=27</link>
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		<title>Outline Mode in Gams-Mode for Emacs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First run your model by hitting C-c C-s (C stands for Ctrl) or use the same command from the menu. Emacs will open a new window and you see how Gams solves your model. When Gams is finished you can hit F10 (or C-c C-v) &#160;to show the listing file in a new buffer. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.modelworks.ch/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Emacs Goodies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Suppose you have the following information in a text file: A;410 B;243 C;134 A;410 B;324 C;134 A;410 B;324 C;134 &#8230;   and you would like to have this text in the following format          A        410,        B        243,   Emacs makes this a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.modelworks.ch/?p=21</link>
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		<title>Syntax Coloring in Gams-Mode</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let us start simple and get a model from the Gams-library. If you started emacs you are not in gams-mode (you can check this by looking at the menu bar: there is no gams-entry). If you load a gams model (with the extension &#8220;gms&#8221;), Emacs automatically turns on gams-mode and the gams entry appears in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.modelworks.ch/?p=20</link>
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		<title>Using a Newsreader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can now automatically download the posts from this side using your newsreader (for example Outlook 2007/2010). Click on the &#8220;site feed&#8221; on the right and follow the instructions.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.modelworks.ch/?p=15</link>
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