SIMUL

For simuls in board games, see simultaneous exhibition.

SIMUL - i.e. Système Intégré de Modélisation mULti-dimensionelle - is an econometric tool for the multidimensional (multi-sectoral and multi-regional) modelling. It allows to implement easily multidimensional econometric models according to their reduced form ${\displaystyle Y_{r,b}=X_{r,b}.a_{r,b}+\varepsilon _{r,b}}$ - where X and Y are two economic variables, r and b (resp.) denote the region and the branch (resp.) and where ${\displaystyle \varepsilon }$ is the residual.

SIMUL

Developer(s)	Rodolphe BUDA
Initial release	3.2
Stable release	3.2 / 2011
Operating system	Windows
Type	Multidimensional Econometric Modelling
License	proprietary
Website	econpapers.repec.org/software/dgeqmrbcd/187.htm

It has been initially developed in the middle of the 90's^[1] inside the GAMA Team of the Professor Raymond Courbis at the University of Paris 10 during the project of multi-regional and multi-sectoral national models of REGILINK (R.Courbis, 1975, 1979, 1981).^[2]

SIMUL 3.2

Since 2003, SIMUL release 3.2 has been developed independently from the REGILINK models.^[3] It can always run them but not only.

The conception of SIMUL 3.2 was inspired by a software used during a long time in GAMA Team, the SIMSYS software, developed by M.C.McCracken and C.A.Sonnen. SIMUL 3.2 is a tool for preparing, estimating and running dynamic, multi-sectoral and multi-regional models.^[4] It has been developed in Turbo-Pascal^[5] and needs it during the working sessions. The user implement the econometric models into a "natural language" the SIMUL 3.2 translates, compiles and runs it according to a Code generation process.

SIMUL 3.2 has been applied to French labor market analysis.^[6]

SIMUL 3.2 is freely downloadable at the Econpapers website