1. Rationale/Objective Evaluation of healthcare reforms has been an integral part of healthcare system studies. In Uganda the effectiveness of the healthcare reforms that were systematically undertaken since 1992, has been widely studied. The partial equilibrium studies evaluating the reforms...

The recent global financial crisis was a reminder that economic and financial stability are inextricably linked. To that end, there has been significant effort in policy and academic circles to incorporate real-financial linkages and macroprudential policies into existing macroeconomic models....

International technology spillovers can be categorised in two types: disembodied and embodied. Disembodied international technology spillovers are the flow of ideas that take place without the exchange of commodities. Examples of disembodied spillovers are present through workers’ mobility,...

Rare Earths are a group of 17 metals which were presumably unknown to the vast majority of people until very recently. The combination of growing demand and tightened export restriction by China, which holds almost monopolistic power in their supply, has led to massive price increase in 2011....

The introduction of unilateral climate policies, and the absence of a climate constraint in many parts of the world raise questions about the distortions in competitiveness and CO2 leakage that may result. Therefore, proposed climate policies are often accompanied by corrective measures intended...

Within this paper, we discuss problems and solutions of integrating intertemporal trade into an economy-energy-environment model. Modeling intertemporal trade provides additional flexibility in achieving economic development as well as environmental sustainability targets, that likely...

The Austrian agricultural sector is very heterogeneous in natural conditions and farming systems and highly vulnerable to climate change (e.g. alpine farming). The economic assessment of climate change impacts on and adaptation measures for agriculture requires an integrated modeling approach to...

In recent years, the computable general equilibrium (CGE) models for different regions have become an important area for research in economics. The aim of this paper is to analyze the fiscal policy and the effects of fiscal federalism to economic agents in a regional economy context. For this...

Venezuela is among the top 10 countries in the world with high rates of subsidies. Taking as reference the database of the IEA (2011), subsidies in Venezuela reach 20 billion US dollars, equivalent to 7% of GDP, or in per capita terms $690 per person. 86 percent of these subsidies are allocated...

Policy simulations during the last decades have been heavily relying on standard static CGE models with a small number of industries. Recently DSGE models (usually termed as New Keynesian) have been developed that incorporate dynamic behavior and institutional constraints at the aggregate...