GTAPinGAMS and GTAP-EG: Global Datasets for Economic Research and Illustrative Models

This paper documents a new version of the GTAPinGAMS package which includes two global economic datasets, GTAPinGAMS and GTAP-EG, corresponding illustrative models, and several ancillary programs for dataset management. The GTAPinGAMS is a dataset based on a general GTAPv4 dataset. The GTAP-EG is the energy-economy dataset adjusted for OECD International Energy Agency (IEA) statistics. The illustrative models of the GTAPinGAMS package have been implemented as a nonlinear complementarity problem in the GAMS programming language. Having the dataset in GAMS is helpful for researchers because of its open-architecture approach which permits to modify easily the dataset and the model for their own purposes. The document contains a description and directions for installing and using the GAMSinGAMS package. ∗Development of these tools has been supported by the Electric Power Research Institute and the United States Department of Energy. The authors are indebted to Randy Wigle and Jared Carbone for their discussions and comments. The authors can be reached at: [email protected], [email protected] †University of Colorado, Department of Economics, Boulder, CO 80309-0256, USA.