Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Conference on Global Economics Analysis, Denmark, June 20-22. The paper proposes a new disequilibrium approach to modeling international capital mobility for a dynamic multi- region general equilibrium model. Key to this approach are errors in investors’...

This research memorandum discusses release 6.2 of `gtap.tab' and friends. A shorter version of this document forms the 6.2 release notes.

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...

This paper revisits the analysis of the implications of China's economic growth on her trading partners presented in Arndt et al. (1997) using a dynamic, applied general equilibrium model that features international capital mobility. We find that accounting for the impact of China's growth on...

We provide a minimal derivation of the Keller formula for outer elasticities of substitution in nested CES systems.

In recent GTAP data releases, in transforming energy volumes data from the IEA extended energy balances to an input-output format, we record inflows into the energy balances flow "international marine bunkers" as exports, but record no corresponding imports. Here, we revise the energy module to...

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...