Tackling climate change with machine learning

D Rolnick, PL Donti, LH Kaack, K Kochanski… - ACM Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and we, as machine
learning (ML) experts, may wonder how we can help. Here we describe how ML can be a …

A review of the role of heuristics in stochastic optimisation: From metaheuristics to learnheuristics

AA Juan, P Keenan, R Martí, S McGarraghy… - Annals of Operations …, 2023 - Springer
In the context of simulation-based optimisation, this paper reviews recent work related to the
role of metaheuristics, matheuristics (combinations of exact optimisation methods with …

Financial frictions and the wealth distribution

J Fernández‐Villaverde, S Hurtado, G Nuno - Econometrica, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We postulate a continuous‐time heterogeneous agent model with a financial sector and
households to study the nonlinear linkages between aggregate and financial variables. In …

Deep equilibrium nets

M Azinovic, L Gaegauf… - International Economic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We introduce deep equilibrium nets (DEQNs)—a deep learning‐based method to compute
approximate functional rational expectations equilibria of economic models featuring a …

AI for climate impacts: applications in flood risk

A Jones, J Kuehnert, P Fraccaro, O Meuriot… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
In recent years there has been a surge of interest in the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
to address the global threat of climate change. Here, we consider climate change …

Simple allocation rules and optimal portfolio choice over the lifecycle

V Duarte, J Fonseca, AS Goodman, JA Parker - 2021 - nber.org
We develop a machine-learning solution algorithm to solve for optimal portfolio choice in a
lifecycle model that includes many features of reality modelled only separately in previous …

Deepham: A global solution method for heterogeneous agent models with aggregate shocks

J Han, Y Yang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.14377, 2021 - arxiv.org
An efficient, reliable, and interpretable global solution method, the Deep learning-based
algorithm for Heterogeneous Agent Models (DeepHAM), is proposed for solving high …

Machine learning and structural econometrics: contrasts and synergies

F Iskhakov, J Rust, B Schjerning - The Econometrics Journal, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We contrast machine learning (ML) and structural econometrics (SE), focusing on areas
where ML can advance the goals of SE. Our views have been informed and inspired by the …

Artificial intelligence as structural estimation: Deep Blue, Bonanza, and AlphaGo

M Igami - The Econometrics Journal, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This article clarifies the connections between certain algorithms to develop artificial
intelligence (AI) and the econometrics of dynamic structural models, with concrete examples …

Machine learning for continuous-time economics

V Duarte - Available at SSRN 3012602, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper proposes a global algorithm to solve a large class of nonlinear continuous-time
models in finance and economics. Using tools from machine learning, I recast problem of …