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In this thesis it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We have used a general equilibrium model in order to study how reducing mark-ups and increasing productivity in one sector affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given...
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Rice is Indonesia’s staple food and accounts for large shares of both consumers’ budgetsand total employment. Until recently, Indonesia was the world’s largest importer, butrice import policy is now highly protectionist. Since early 2004, rice imports have beenofficially banned. Advocates...
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long-standing feature of China’s agricultural trade regime. While the use of state trading was modified by China … calibration exercise to measure the tariff equivalent of COFCO in China's import market for wheat. We find that the trade …
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European Union (MERCOEURO). Four simulations are run using the Global Trade Analysis Project's (GTAP) applied general …
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This paper discusses an approach to implement output quotas in the GTAP model which permits an endogenous adjustment of … used no change of the worldwide GTAP data base is required. Several modifications of the GTAP model and two exogenous …
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The introduction of cross-compliancemechanism in the European Union with its 2003 CAP-reformmight affect the costs of production and thuscompetitiveness of the EU. Little evidence is available toasses the costs of compliance with regulations and it implicationfor trade. In this study a farm...
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Project (GTAP) computable general equilibrium model with accompanying version 6 data. In its present incarnation, the data … analysis, we employ the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) computable general equilibrium model with accompanying version 6 … General Equilibrium, Common Agricultural Policy, Agricultural international trade, GTAP. …
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Quantification of welfare changes due to trade liberalisation play a crucial role for political decision making. However, meaningful comparisons of simulation results from different sources are difficult. Often significant differences in simulated gains from liberalisation do not serve to...
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questions by using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for Ghana, implemented in the General Algebraic Modeling System …
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In 1986, Andrews and Rossi reviewed input-output (IO)studies of U.S. fisheries. Since then, many more fisheries studies have appeared using IO and other types of regional economic models, such as Fishery Economic Assessment Models, Social Accounting Matrices, and Computable General Equilibrium...
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