Global Trade Analysis
Modeling and Applications

This book, drawn from the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), aims to help readers conduct quantitative analysis of international trade issues in an economy-wide framework.

Thomas W. Hertel (Edited by)

9780521643740, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 January 1999

424 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 2.2 cm, 0.59 kg

This book, drawn from the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), aims to help readers conduct quantitative analysis of international trade issues in an economy-wide framework. In addition to providing a succinct introduction to the GTAP modelling framework and data base, this book contains seven of the most refined GTAP applications undertaken to date, covering topics ranging from trade policy to the global implications of environmental policies, factor accumulation and technological change. The authors of the applications are representative of the broader group of GTAP users. Some are academics, while others are professional economists in national and international agencies. All of their studies can be independently replicated by the reader through accessing software and files via the Internet. Readers can also explore the sensitivity of results to varying assumptions and use the applications to launch independent research projects.

Foreword Alan A. Powell
Part I. Introduction and Overview: 1. Introduction Thomas W. Hertel
Part II. Structure of GTAP Framework: 2. Structure of GTAP Thomas W. Hertel and Marinos E. Tsigas
3. Overview of the GTAP data base Mark Gehlhar, Denice Gray, Thomas W. Hertel, Karen Huff, Elena Ianchovichina, Bradley J. McDonald, Robert McDougall, Marinos E. Tsigas, and Randall Wigle
4. GTAP Behavior parameters Karen Huff, Kevin Hanslow, Thomas W. Hertel, and Marinos E. Tsigas
5. Aggregation and computation of equilibrium elasticities Thomas W. Hertel, D. Kent Lanclos, Kenneth R. Pearson, and Padma V. Swaminathan
6. Implementing GTAP using the GEMPACK software Kenneth R. Pearson
Part III. Applications of GTAP: 7. Developing country expansion and relative wages in industrial countries Robert McDougall and Rod Tyers
8. An evaluation of the Cairns Group strategies for agriculture in the Uruguay Round Donald MacLaren
9. Free trade in the Pacific Rim: on what basis?Linda M. Young and Karen Huff
10. Evaluating the benefits of abolishing the MFA in the Uruguay Round packageMarinos E. Tsigas, George B. Frisvold, and Betsey Kuhn
12. Environmental policy modeling Carlo Perroni and Randall Wigle
13. Multimarket effects of agricultural research with technological spillovers George B. Frisvold
Part IV. Evaluation of GTAP: 14. Historical analysis of growth and trade patterns in the Pacific Rim: An evaluation of the GTAP framework Mark Gehlhar
15. Implications for global trade analysis Thomas W. Hertel
Glossary of GTAP notation.

Subject Areas: International trade [KCLT]