Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling
Description
Key Features
- Presents coherent summaries of CGE theories that inform major model types
- Covers the construction of CGE databases, model solving, and computer-assisted interpretation of results
- Shows how CGE modeling has made a contribution to economic policy
Readership
Graduate students and professors worldwide working in all subdisciplines of economics and finance.
Table of Contents
Section 1. Overview
1. An introduction to CGE modeling -- Peter B. Dixon and Dale W. Jorgenson
Section 2. Single-Country CGE Projects
2. The MONASH style of CGE modeling: a framework for hisorical, decomposition, forecast and policy simulations -- Peter B. Dixon, Robert B. Koopman and Maureen T. Rimmer
3. CGE assessments of fiscal sustainability in Norway -- Erling Holmoy
4. MAMS - a Computable General Equilibrium Model for Developing Country Strategy Analysis --Hans Lofgren, Martin Cicowiez and Carolina Diaz-Bonilla
5. The contribution of CGE modeling to policy formulation in developing countries -- Sherman Robinson and Shantayanan Devarajan
6. Putting services and foreign direct investment into CGE models: reflections on the use of CGE models in policy discussions -- David Tarr
7. Regional CGE Modeling -- John R. Madden and James A. Giesecke
8. IGEM: a model of U.S. economic growth and the environment -- Dale W. Jorgenson, Peter Wilcoxen and Mun Ho
9. Energy and Environment Modeling in Australia -- Philip D. Adams and Brian R. Parmenter
10. Tax reform, the cost of capital, and U.S. economic growth -- Dale W. Jorgenson and Kun-Young Yun
11. Dynamic overlapping generations computational general equilibrium models and the analysis of tax policy --
John W. Diamond and George R. Zodrow
Section 3. Global CGE Projects
12. Applied General Equilibrium Analysis using the GTAP Framework -- Thomas Hertel
13. Estimating effects of price-distorting policies using alternative distortions databases-- Kym Anderson, Will Martin and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
14. Global Dynamic Scenarios—Structural and Environmental Implications -- Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
15. Energy and environment, a global approach: G-cubed-- Warwick J. McKibbin
16. Integrated economic and climate modeling -- William Nordhaus
Section 4. CGE Data, Parameter Estimation, Validation and Computation
17. An econometric approach to general equilibrium modeling --Dale W. Jorgenson, Hui Jin and Daniel T. Slesnick
18. Trade Elasticity Parameters for a CGE Model -- Russell Hillberry and David Hummels
19. Validation of CGE models -- Peter B. Dixon and Maureen T. Rimmer
20. Solution Software for CGE Modeling -- Mark Horridge, Alex Meeraus, Ken Pearson and Thomas F, Rutherford
Section 5. Advancing CGE Methodology
21. Income distribution and Computable General Equilibrium models: macro- micro modelling -- Francois Bourguignon and Maurizio Bussolo
22. The New Keynesian approach to dynamic general equilibrium modeling: models, methods and macroeconomic policy evaluation -- Volker Wieland and Sebastian Schmidt
23. Computing general equilibrium theories of monopolistic competition and heterogeneous firms -- Edward J. Balistreri and Thomas F, Rutherford
24. Market Structure in CGE Models of International Trade -- Joseph Francois, Miriam Manchin and Will Martin
25. CGE modeling of trade in services -- Joseph Francois and Bernard Hoekman
26. Labor market modeling in a CGE context -- Stefan Boeters and Luc Savard
27. Aging and social insurance in a CGE framework -- Laurence Kotlikoff, Hans Fehr and Sabine Jokisch
Product details
- No. of pages: 1056
- Language: English
- Copyright: © North Holland 2012
- Published: November 14, 2012
- Imprint: North Holland
- eBook ISBN: 9780444595805