The purpose of this memorandum is to document recent revisions to the energy environmental extension of the GTAP Model (GTAP-E) described in GTAP Technical Paper No.16 by Burniaux and Truong (2002). We revise the solution program, data, stored input and command files, and welfare decomposition...

This memorandum records work done to revise energy data for Russia for release 5.3 of the GTAP Data Base, more specifcally, data for commodity taxes on energy. The main object of the work is to let us ¯t the Russian input-output (IO) table to the energy data. A secondary object is to improve...

August, 1999 This document is written for those who wish to contribute to the GTAP Data Base, whether by providing an input-output table for a country not separately represented in the data base, or by updating the table for a region that is already represented. It provides specifications and...

The GTAP Model, versions 4.1 and lower, suffers from some defects in the implementation of the regional household demand system. Most seriously, the upper level of the demand system assumes that each regional household faces a fixed price for utility from private consumption. But with a private...

May 1999 Presented at the 2nd Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis Recent research in applications of entropy theory to matrix balancing problems in eco-nomics has put powerful new tools in the hands of data base developers, but overshadowed some previous findings. We recall earlier...

July 1993 GTAP Short Course Presentation, 1993

The memorandum documents the initial preparation of energy volume data for release 7 of the GTAP Data Base.

The importance of obtaining quality I-O tables for the GTAP Data Base has prompted the need for a method to compare contributed I-O tables. Comparisons are useful for a number of reasons. a) Time comparisons can be used to show how an economy has changed over time. b) Country comparisons may be...

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, Second Quarter The East Asian crisis is not all bad news for the United States and Canada (North America). Net debtors in North America – be they individual families refinancing their mortgages, businesses financing their expansion, or...

The GTAP final demand system has some known defects: the computation of the equivalent variation is not exact; with non-standard demand parameters, the equivalent variation may be grossly in error; the decomposition of the equivalent variation contains a nuisance term. We find a further defect,...