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...

In alignment with the European Union’s legislation, Greece submitted its final 10-year National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) in December 2019, setting more ambitious energy climate targets than those originally proposed draft version of document. Apart from higher penetration renewable sources (RES), NECP projects also zero carbon use power generation till 2030. Although decarbonization has l...

International conflicts cause global energy price fluctuations and supply disruptions, which can threaten security economic growth in energy-importing countries, including China. However, the implications impact mechanisms of international on economy oil-importing countries have been poorly explored. Using US sanctions Iran as a case, energy-extended computable general equilibrium model, GTAP-E...

This paper provides new estimates of the extent and economic effects agricultural policies that provide domestic support or import protection to farmers in countries compete global marketplace with unsubsidised farmers. Analyses earlier this century found market access barriers accounted for more than 90 per cent welfare cost all assistance farmers, measures providing as little 5 cent. Since th...

This study analyzes the impacts of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on meat and dairy industries. To achieve this goal, Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database was used in a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) setting, which allows for inclusion carbon taxes definition four alternative environmental policies scenarios using both Warming Potential (GWP) Temperature (GTP) as GHG mea...

Carbon Capture, Utility and Storage (CCUS) is essential for achieving carbon neutrality has great development potential in China. CCUS, as a long-term new investment, can address global warming significant social economic impacts. This paper assessed the socio-economic effects of CCUS investment based on China by combining dynamic GTAP model Input-output method. The result indicates that: may a...

Missing trade is defined as the exports and imports that may have taken place between two potential trading partners, but which are unknown to the researcher because neither partner reported them to the United Nation’s COMTRADE, the official global repository of trade statistics. In a comprehensive sample of African countries, over 40% of the potential trade flows fit this definition. For a con...

Much remains to be done before agricultural trade is as liberal as world trade in manufactures. But agriculture is distorted by more than agricultural policies. In developing countries especially, farming is discouraged not only by farm protection policies in high-income countries but also by those countries' own manufacturing policies and distortions to services markets. This paper explores th...

There is a severe lack of data describing foreign affiliate activity. To fill this gap, we produce a new dataset to further the literature on the behavior of multinational firms. Eurostat’s Foreign Affiliate Statistics database, with a large number of sector-level, bilateral observations on foreign affiliate sales, provides a basis from which to extrapolate the relationship between various host...