A Comparison of Programming Languages in Economics

S. Borağan Aruoba, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

We solve the stochastic neoclassical growth model, the workhorse of modern macroeconomics, using C++11, Fortran 2008, Java, Julia, Python, Matlab, Mathematica, and R. We implement the same algorithm, value function iteration with grid search, in each of the languages. We report the execution times of the codes in a Mac and in a Windows computer and briefly comment on the strengths and weaknesses of each language

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Year of publication:	June 2014
Authors:	Aruoba, S. Borağan
Other Persons:	Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús (contributor)
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Sprache \| Language \| Vergleich \| Comparison \| Wirtschaftswissenschaft \| Economics \| Mehrsprachigkeit \| Multilingualism

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