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CGE Models for the Analysis of Trade Policy in Developing Countries

de Melo, Jaime - 2017

The use of computable general equilibrium (CGE) simulation models for policy analysis has become widespread. However, such techniques are not well suited to economywide analysis in developing countries. Instead, simulation models relying on "borrowed" parameter estimates have been used for a...

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Unlocking Bangladesh-India Trade : Emerging Potential and the Way Forward

De, Prabir - 2017

The primary objective of this study is to analyze the impact on Bangladesh of increased market access in India, both within a static production structure and also identifying dynamic gains. The study shows that Bangladesh and India would both gain by opening up their markets to each other....

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CGE Modeling of Market Access in Services

Christen, Elisabeth - 2017

This paper examines how the applied multi-sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) literature has moved into quantication of the impacts of greater market access for services. This includes discussion of multi-sector linkages to the service sector, as well both measuring barriers to trade and...

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Putting Services and Foreign Direct Investment with Endogenous Productivity Effects in Computable General Equilibrium Models

Tarr, David G. - 2017

With the growing importance of services and foreign direct investment in services, it is important to have a framework to analyze the impact of the liberalization of barriers to foreign direct investment in services. This paper summarizes several recent papers and builds policy-based computable...

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CGE Analysis of the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment and Tariff Reform on Female and Male Wages

Latorre Muñoz, María C. - 2017

set that distinguishes labor and wages by gender for 52 sectors and four skill categories. The model is the first to … incorporate modern trade theory to assess the gender implications of trade reform. Given that the Dixit-Stiglitz framework results …

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Some Simple Analytics of Trade and Labor Mobility

Artuc, Erhan - 2018

This paper studies a simple, tractable model of labor adjustment in a trade model that allows researchers to analyze the economy's dynamic response to trade liberalization. Since it is a neoclassical market-clearing model, duality techniques can be employed to study the equilibrium and, despite...

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Trade and Regional Inequality

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between openness and within-country regional inequality across 28 countries over the period 1975-2005, paying special attention to whether increases in global trade affect the developed and developing world differently. Using a combination of static and...

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Implications of WTO Agreements and Unilateral Trade Policy Reforms for Poverty in Bangladesh : Short Versus Long-Run Impacts

Annabi, Nabil - 2016

The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and poverty … macroeconomic effects and microeconomic effects in terms of poverty, the authors use the representative household approach with … scenario has negative implications for the overall macroeconomy, household welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade …

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Openness, Inequality, and Poverty : Endowments Matter

Gourdon, Julien - 2016

Using tariffs as a measure of openness, the authors find consistent evidence that the conditional effects of tradeliberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization is associated with increases in inequality in countries well-endowed in highly...

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Building Macro Sams from Cross-Country Databases : Method and Matrices for 133 Countries

Cicowiez, Martin - 2018

Social accounting matrices (SAMs) are the key data input for computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. After a brief introduction to SAMs, this paper presents a method and related computer program for constructing macro SAMs from cross-country databases. The method is demonstrated in an...

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