This archive contains the data and GAMS code used for our analysis in 

     Balistreri and Hillberry (2005) "Estibration:  an illustration 
        of structural estimation as calibration," 
        http://www.mines.edu/~ebalistr/Papers/estibration.pdf  

The subdirectory "vW_data" contains the data files provided by 
Eric van Wincoop.  

The subdirectory "model" contains GAMS programs 
that read the data, replicate Anderson and van Wincoop's non-linear 
estimation, and compute a proper general-equilibrium counterfactual.

The program dataread.gms must be executed first to generate the cleaned 
data (clndata.gms).

The program estib.gms performs the non-linear estimation and general 
equilibrium simulation.  The program contains an option statement that 
selects CONOPT3 as the NLP solver.  CONOPT3 seems to be the most robust 
solver, but PATHNLP is a good second choice.  PATH is used to solve the 
general equilibrium as a Mixed Complementarity Problem.      

If you have any questions or problems please contact me:  

NB: Updated to utilize GDX (3/18/2024) -ejb
edward.balistreri@unl.edu

Cheers,
Ed.