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Impacts of Trade Reform: Sensitivity of Model Results to Key Assumptions

Ernesto Valenzuela, Kym Anderson and Thomas Hertel

No 2007-09, Centre for International Economic Studies Working Papers from University of Adelaide, Centre for International Economic Studies

Abstract: The WTOÂ’s Doha Development Agenda has generated demand for estimates of the potential economic consequences of global trade reform. Recent improvements in the GTAP dataset have provided a much better representation of tariff restrictions as of 2001. However, despite its use by most global trade modelers, substantial differences in results emerge from different computable general equilibrium exercises. To help understand these differences, this paper examines the sensitivity of full global and regional trade liberalization results from the GTAP model, using the GTAP version 6.1 database, to different assumptions about factor mobility, fiscal neutrality, macro-economic closure, and trade (Armington) elasticities.

Keywords: Trade policy reform; WTO; agricultural trade; computable general equilibrium. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C68 F17 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2007-10
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