This paper describes MOLES 1.0, an integrated land-use and transport model developed with Object-Oriented Programming principles in order to combine selected characteristics from Spatial Computable General Equilibrium and microsimulation models.

Two most challenging problems facing transportation planners and policymakers in many developing countries are rapid urban traffic growth and lack of financial and technical resources to conduct major planning studies, especially for assessing the impacts of new sites and land-uses. The...

This paper uses WITCH, an integrated assessment model with a game-theoretic structure, to explore the prospects for, and the stability of broad coalitions to achieve ambitious climate change mitigation action. Only coalitions including all large emitting regions are found to be technically able...

This unique book makes a contribution to the deeper understanding of various trade-related investment measures (TRIMs). The issues have been largely inspired by the use of trade policies on foreign investment adopted in China and many other nations from the 1960s to the 1990s. Building upon the...

This paper analyses the incentives to participate in and the stability of international climate coalitions. Using the integrated assessment model WITCH, the analysis of coalitions’ profitability and stability is performed under alternative assumptions concerning the pure rate of time...

We use randomized program offers and multiple follow-up survey waves to examine the effects of entrepreneurship training on a broad set of outcomes. Training increases short run business ownership and employment, but there is no evidence of broader or longer run effects. We also test whether...

We estimate the potential synergy between pollution and climate control in the U.S. and China, summarizing the results as emissions cross-elasticities of control. In both countries, ancillary carbon reductions resulting from SO2 and NOx control tend to rise with the increased stringency of...

The growing importance of the electricity sector in many economies, and of energy and environmental policies, requires a detailed consideration of these sectors and policies in computable general equilibrium (CGE) models, including both technological and temporal aspects. This paper presents the...

The paper studies the impact of migration policy liberalization in the enlarged EU. Adopting a structural NEG approach, we attempt to asses the direction, size and dynamics of potential labor migration after the end of the 'transitional measures', which are restricting the relocation of workers....

The following sections are included: <ul><li class="bullet">Introduction</li><li class="bullet">A Theoretical Model of Tax Rebates</li><li class="bullet">Modeling China's Duty Drawbacks and Tax Rebates in a CGE Framework</li><li class="bullet">Effects of Duty Drawbacks and Tax Rebates: Illustrative Experiments</li><li class="bullet">Concluding Remarks</li><li class="bullet">Appendix: Stability</li></ul><p> <form name="frmAbs" action="" style="visibility:hidden;"> <input name="href" value="/doi/abs/10.1142/9781783264797_0019" type="hidden"> <input name="title" value="Import Duty Drawback and VAT Rebate Policies: A CGE Analysis for China)" type="hidden"> <input name="doi" value="10.1142/9781783264797_0019" checked="checked" type="checkbox">