About QuantEcon

Mission Statement

QuantEcon advances open-source software and open science in economics. It provides freely available, high-quality computational tools and educational resources as a public good for the global economics community. QuantEcon is noncommercial, independent of any single institution, and committed to permanent open licensing.

Legally, QuantEcon is a fiscally sponsored project of NumFOCUS and PSL Foundation. While QuantEcon is not an independent 501(c)(3), it can, for most purposes, be treated as one. Donations are tax-deductible, received on its behalf by the sponsors, which are themselves 501(c)(3) nonprofits. The sponsors are QuantEcon’s legal and financial home: they hold its funds and act on its behalf — for example, NumFOCUS holds and protects the QuantEcon trademark. QuantEcon keeps its own name, governance, and editorial control, and operates under its sponsors’ tax-exempt status rather than maintaining a legal entity of its own.

What We Do

  • Lectures — We develop and maintain high quality lecture series on economics, finance, econometrics, and data science, all based on open source languages and computing environments.

  • Books — We publish open access textbooks on quantitative economics and finance.

  • Code Libraries — We develop and maintain high-performance, open source code libraries in Python and Julia for quantitative economic modeling.

  • Workshops — We run remote and in-person workshops at leading universities, central banks, and international organizations around the world.

  • Infrastructure — We build open source tools and infrastructure for computational education, including contributions to Jupyter Book and the Executable Books Project.

History

QuantEcon was co-founded in 2015 by Thomas J. Sargent (Nobel Laureate, New York University) and John Stachurski (Australian National University).

Get Involved

We welcome contributions to our lecture series, code libraries, and infrastructure projects. Visit our GitHub organization to explore our repositories and find ways to contribute.

Contact

You can reach the QuantEcon team at contact@quantecon.org.

You may donate to QuantEcon via NumFOCUS.