An optimization problem is one where you have to make the best decision (choose the best investments, minimize your company’s costs, find the class schedule with the fewest morning classes, or so on).

Add-ins are special files that provide additional functionality. After downloading an add-in file, the Add-ins Manager must be used to install it. Add-ins files have extension .xla or .xlam (for Excel ...

An Excel workbook called ISLMCS.xls provides a simple example of how to use Solver and the Comparative Statics Wizard to set up a standard short run macro model and then do comparative statics. The ...