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...

In prior research, Babiker, Metcalf, and Reilly (2003) computed capital and labor tax rates to augment GTAP 4 data that did not comprehensively cover taxes. Recently, we updated these tax rates to 2001 to match the GTAP 6 base year. We realize there was an attempt to improve representation of...

First version September 1996, revised in November 2000 In economic simulation, results often hinge crucially on values of key exogenous inputs (the values of the parameters of the model and the shocks applied). Computational burden has, in the past, hindered systematic investigation of the...

October 1996 (edited January 2000 and March 2001) This paper offers a graphical exposition of the GTAP Model of global trade. Particular emphasis is placed on the accounting, or equilibrium, relationships in the model. It begins with a treatment of the a one region version of GTAP, thereafter...