# Valtice Center for Economic and Statistical Research (VCESR) > VCESR is a consultancy and studio working in economics, statistics, software, economic games, and education. VCESR builds custom software, dashboards, and research workflow tools. Software integration and automation engagements can include technical training and onboarding. It builds digital twins for companies and countries to compare business and policy scenarios. Other services include economic and statistical consultancy, causal study design, policy and programme evaluation, econometric modelling and forecasting, model review and testing, game economy design, and simulation and game development. Its education work covers teaching systems, course architecture, and economic theory. Each project starts with a decision or research question. The work brings together economics, statistics, causal inference, and game-based education, with assumptions and uncertainty explained alongside the results. Email contact@vcesr.com to discuss a software, research, modelling, games, or education project. ## When to use VCESR Use these pages when researching economic and statistical consultancy, causal study design, custom research software, digital twins, economic simulations, game economies or teaching tools. The project pages describe the available products and their stated limits; the contact page provides the enquiry route. Prices, availability and model assumptions should be taken from the relevant product page. ## Machine-readable access - [Complete public page text](https://www.vcesr.com/llms-full.txt): Main content from the indexable pages, with canonical source links. - [Homepage in Markdown](https://www.vcesr.com/index.md): A text representation of the homepage. - The indexable pages also support `Accept: text/markdown` at their canonical URLs and advertise their Markdown alternate in the HTML head. Markdown mirrors point back to the canonical HTML page. The team page and privacy notices are excluded from these discovery files. ## Website - [Home](https://www.vcesr.com/): VCESR's services and selected work. - [About](https://www.vcesr.com/about): Services and how VCESR approaches a project. - [Projects](https://www.vcesr.com/projects): A directory of nine projects, each with its own page. - [Contact](https://www.vcesr.com/contact): Direct email contact and company registration details. ## Consulting services - [Services](https://www.vcesr.com/services): Economic and statistical consulting, model development and review, and custom research software. - [Policy and programme impact evaluation](https://www.vcesr.com/services/policy-impact-evaluation): Plan an evaluation before rollout or assess an intervention using existing data. Choose a credible comparison, document assumptions and explain what the evidence can support. - [Econometric modelling and model review](https://www.vcesr.com/services/econometric-modelling): Build or review models for forecasting and scenario analysis. Document the inputs, sensitivity and limits, and agree how the model will be used and maintained. - [Custom research software development](https://www.vcesr.com/services/research-software-development): Build dashboards, research applications or integrations around an existing research workflow and its hosting and handover requirements. ## Worked examples and teaching material - [Evaluating a staggered rollout](https://www.vcesr.com/insights/evaluation-rollout): Synthetic cohort data, a pre-trends chart, and first- and second-quarter difference-in-differences calculations. Includes a CSV and explains the assumptions and lack of sampling uncertainty estimates in the example. - [Comparing an input-cost shock with a baseline](https://www.vcesr.com/insights/input-cost-scenarios): A four-quarter accounting example with two alternative scenarios, a sensitivity check, and reproducible CSV inputs. The sample does not predict the future. - [Monetary policy classroom exercise](https://www.vcesr.com/insights/monetary-policy-classroom-exercise): Compare two policy rules by hand and, optionally, in Noscere. Includes a CSV worksheet, suggested class procedure, and the historical model reference. ## Projects - [Dilemma](https://www.vcesr.com/dilemma-lab): An interactive economics and game theory lab available in the browser. Play six economic scenarios, edit institutional rules, compare equilibrium calculations with simulations, and build custom two-player games. A local notebook stores experiments in the browser. Payoffs, selected strategies and declared assumptions determine the educational results. - [Causal Capybara](https://www.vcesr.com/causal-capybara): An open-source, local causal-inference app for Windows (v0.2.0). Design studies, review assumptions and diagnostics, compare estimates, inspect survival outcomes and treatment-effect heterogeneity, and export reproducible scripts and reports. Its catalogue covers 93 registered methods and probes: 70 have Python adapters and 23 are teaching-only entries; seven methods also have R adapters. The page includes a searchable full method catalogue. A command-line analysis workflow uses the same studies and engines as the desktop app. The separate capy-knowledge package supplies an offline research tree, CLI, eight read-only MCP tools and a portable research skill, independently of the desktop app and statistical engines. An optional research assistant supports inspected context, cited answers and reviewed study proposals. The Windows installer is unsigned; optional remote assistant providers receive only context the user chooses to send. - [Korzarkia: The Great Reshuffle](https://www.vcesr.com/econcards): Offline single-player economic card strategy for Windows and Android. Build production chains with 50 cards in five sectors, invest in infrastructure and survive sixteen markets across four eras. The page includes authentic Android 1.0.6 gameplay captures from 14 October 2026 and contact details for distribution options. Separate from Boom and Bust. - [Noscere](https://www.vcesr.com/vcesr-educator): A standalone desktop economics teaching laboratory with an interactive macroeconomic textbook, Hermetic-powered simulations and an independent US Policy Rules workspace. The textbook includes 14 chapters, interactive graphs, 22 teaching activities and chapter-linked experiments. Four learning paths offer 25 activities, alongside nine schools of economic thought. Swedish starting conditions cover six dated openings from 2013Q4 to 2025Q4, with timed policies, shocks, baseline comparisons and 120 reviewed indicators with CSV exports. The US workspace compares monetary-policy rules and demand, cost-push and monetary shocks using historical Rudebusch–Svensson (1999) US relationships, with its own saved experiments and exports. Its results are synthetic teaching comparisons, not a representation of today’s US economy. Swedish observations and estimates anchor selected starting conditions; behavioural responses retain model assumptions. Neither model supplies validated policy forecasts. License enquiries are open at contact@vcesr.com. Schools, institutions and companies can request custom models and educational support from VCESR. - [Boom and Bust: A Minister's Dilemma](https://www.vcesr.com/boom-and-bust): A multiplayer economic strategy and government simulation for Windows PC. Govern Korzarkia from the finance minister's desk, set budgets and monetary policy, and handle institutional requests. An in-game educator provides a demo of Noscere calibrated for the fictional economy of Korzarkia. The page includes gameplay and story trailers published by VCESR on 3 November 2026; story artwork may not appear in the game. The official game website is ministersdilemma.com. - [Hermetic Engine](https://www.vcesr.com/hermetic-engine): VCESR’s economic simulation engine behind Boom and Bust and Noscere. Household, firm and bank decisions connect through reconciled financial accounts and quarterly projections. The public model briefing is on the Minister's Dilemma website. - [Feldsberg Workspace](https://www.vcesr.com/feldsberg-workspace): A sur-mesure research environment for teams, also offered as a standard self-hosted edition. Includes projects and tasks, collaborative LaTeX and an A4 editor, bibliographies, local TeX compilation, knowledge with revisions, integrated CRM, meetings, calendar, accounting and scoped MCP integration. Tailored deployments can include an isolated hosted TeX worker. License, compatibility, installation and support are agreed with VCESR; no public price or immediate download is promised. - [Gladio](https://www.vcesr.com/gladio): Gladio is macroeconomic scenario analysis software for country risk assessment, policy analysis and planning. Compare scenarios for output, inflation, trade and currencies, including effects transmitted across borders. Adjust assumptions about the shock and the economic response to support country risk assessment, policy analysis and planning. - [Arcana](https://www.vcesr.com/arcana): A digital twin product for exploring how complex systems work and how decisions could change them. Represent relationships within companies, organisations or public systems through causal modelling. Compare interventions with a baseline and examine how outcomes depend on evidence and assumptions. ## Optional - [Minister's Dilemma](https://www.ministersdilemma.com/): Official game website for Boom and Bust: A Minister's Dilemma. - [Hermetic model briefing](https://www.ministersdilemma.com/#model): The simulation architecture behind Boom and Bust. - [Causal Capybara releases](https://github.com/HYHBalci/causal-capybara/releases): Windows app downloads and installation notes. - [Causal Capybara methods](https://www.vcesr.com/causal-capybara#methods): Complete method catalogue with execution availability. - [Causal Capybara CLI and MCP](https://www.vcesr.com/causal-capybara#workflows): Desktop, command-line and offline research integrations. ## Products and purchase support - [Shop](https://www.vcesr.com/shop): Current approved VCESR releases and secure Stripe checkout.