Computer Workstations for Applied Economics Research

应用经济学研究计算机工作站

基本信息

批准号：
9115810
负责人：
Whitney Newey
金额：
$ 7.93万
依托单位：
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
1992
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
1992-10-01 至 1994-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9115810&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Computer Workstations Applied Economics Research

项目摘要

This proposal is submitted for consideration in the FY-92 instrumentation competition conducted by the Division of Social and Economic Science of the National Science Foundation. Applied economics research within the Department of Economics at MIT, particularly in the areas of monetary and fiscal policy, financial economics, labor economics, and economic planning in developing countries, requires computational support for processing and statistical analysis of large data sets, as well as related forecasting and simulation activities. This proposal will provide scientific workstations for applied economics faculty, and their research assistants, with sufficient storage and computational capacity to carry out this research program. In the past, the research program has been limited to projects that could be performed on personal computers, or which have large extramural budgets for mainframe computing. The workstations provided under this proposal will expand substantially the flexibility of the research program, provide research assistants earlier access to the analysis of large data sets, and permit studies that previously could not be done with available resources. The MIT Economics Department is among the best in the country. The type of research which it proposes accords with core objectives of NSF's Division of Social and Economic Science and its potential contribution to the education and development of human resources is outstanding.

该提案已提交美国国家科学基金会社会和经济科学部举办的 FY-92 仪器竞赛中审议。麻省理工学院经济系的应用经济学研究，特别是在发展中国家的货币和财政政策、金融经济学、劳动经济学和经济规划领域，需要对大数据集的处理和统计分析的计算支持，以及相关的预测和模拟活动。该提案将为应用经济学教师及其研究助理提供科学工作站，并具有足够的存储和计算能力来开展该研究项目。过去，研究计划仅限于可以在个人计算机上执行的项目，或者具有大量用于大型机计算的外部预算的项目。根据该提案提供的工作站将大大扩展研究计划的灵活性，使研究助理能够更早地进行大型数据集的分析，并允许以前无法利用现有资源完成的研究。麻省理工学院的经济系在全国名列前茅。它提出的研究类型符合美国国家科学基金会社会和经济科学部的核心目标，其对人力资源教育和开发的潜在贡献是突出的。