Creating a Disaggregated CGE Model for Trade Policy Analysis: GTAP-MVH

Aid for Trade Policy in Developing and Least Developed Countries: a Gtap Simulation Analysis

Recent global initiatives on debt relief and development assistance call for increasing aid for trade to the poorest countries. We apply a multi-country computable general equilibrium model, to analyze if aid for trade offers the possibility that, instead of the developing and least developed countries’ being worse off—as so many were as the result of the last round of trade negotiations—they w...

Policy Analysis with a Disaggregated Economic - Demographic Model

The purpose of this paper is to show that useful information about a wide variety of proposed government policies can be obtained through simulation experiments with.a detailed macroeconomic model. In particular, the simulation technique can provide information about the effects of a policy on the long-run growth of per capita income. Since accelerating the growth of per capita income is usuall...

Trade Liberalization and Income Distribution: A CGE Model for Jordan

The Association Agreement between Jordan and the EU entered into force in 2002. It provides a gradual reduction of import duties on EU products over a period of twelve years. In this paper we investigate the economic implications of induced trade liberalization on aggregate economic performance as well as effects on welfare and income distribution of heterogenous households. This is done by int...

Economic Policy Analysis in a Macroeconometric Model for Iran

Specification choice and robustness in CGE trade policy analysis with imperfect competition

In order to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the robustness of the quantitative results of applied trade policy simulations to variations in the assumptions about firm conduct, this article provides a systematic synopsis of alternative formulations of imperfectly competitive supply behaviour in applied general equilibrium trade models and examines the sensitivity of simulated...