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Applied trade policy modeling in 16 countries : insights and impacts from world bank CGE based projects
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ISBN: 9814551430 9789814551434 9789814551427 9814551422 Year: 2014 Publisher: Singapore : World Scientific,

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This book focuses on the World Bank projects, led by the author, based on computable general equilibrium models of international trade policy. The chapters show an unusual combination of policy relevance, advice and impact, with academic rigor and international trade theory insights. The author discusses some of the policy contexts for the requests from developing and transition countries to the World Bank, the key trade theory or policy insights, policy recommendations and conclusions, and the policy impacts. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview (283 KB). Contents: Introduc


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Economics of Transiting to Renewable Energy in Morocco : A General Equilibrium Analysis
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Year: 2014 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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Morocco has set an ambitious target of supplying 42 percent of electricity through renewable sources, 14 percent each through hydro, wind, and solar, by 2020. To analyze the economic and environmental implications of implementing this target, this study uses a dynamic computable general equilibrium model with foresight that includes explicit representation of various electricity generation technologies. Two types of policy instruments, a production subsidy financed through fossil fuel taxation and a renewable energy mandate financed through increased electricity prices, have been considered to attract investment in renewable energy. The study shows that meeting the renewable target would achieve up to 15 percent reduction of national greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 compared with a situation in the absence of the target, or the baseline. However, meeting the target would decrease household consumption of goods and services, thereby worsening household welfare. The study also shows that the renewable production subsidy financed through fossil fuel taxation is superior to the mandate policy to meet the renewable energy target in Morocco, as the former would cause a lower loss in economic welfare and a larger reduction of greenhouse gas emissions than the latter.


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Economic Effects of the Syrian War and the Spread of the Islamic State on the Levant
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Year: 2014 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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This paper uses a global computable general-equilibrium framework with new detail on six Levant countries-the Arab Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey-to quantify the direct and indirect economic effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the Islamic State on the Levant. Syria and Iraq bear the brunt of the direct economic costs, while the other Levant countries lose in per capita but not in aggregate terms. The fact that the Islamic State's spread has undermined regional trade adds to varying degrees to the direct costs in all Levant economies and in the case of Syria and Iraq doubles the welfare losses. All these countries are foregoing opportunities to expand intra-Levant trade and the associated gains in economic efficiency and diversification. The average welfare effects are not indicative of within-country incidence, which varies among workers, landowners, and capitalists.


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Agricultural Policies and Trade Paths in Turkey
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Year: 2014 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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In 1959, shortly after the European Economic Community was founded under the 1957 Treaty of Rome, Turkey applied for Associate Membership in the then six-member common market. By 1963, a path for integrating the economies of Turkey and the eventual European Union had been mapped. As with many trade agreements, agriculture posed difficult political hurdles, which were never fully cleared, even as trade barriers to other sectors were eventually removed and a Customs Union formed. This essay traces the influences the Turkey-European Union economic institutions have had on agricultural policies and the agriculture sector. An applied general equilibrium framework is used to provide estimates of what including agriculture under the Customs Union would mean for the sector and the economy. The paper also discusses the implications of fully aligning Turkey's agricultural policies with the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy, as would be required under full membership.


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Chinese Economy in Disequilibrium
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ISBN: 3642395570 3642395589 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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Known internationally as ‘Mr. Shareholding’ economist, Li Yining has had a transformative impact on China's economic transition, most notably as an early advocate of ownership reform and in his promotion of shareholding theory. By examining the interrelationship between the government, enterprises and the market, Chinese Economy in Disequilibrium presents an in-depth discussion on the issues of resource allocation, industrial structure, institutional innovation and economic fluctuation in the current Chinese economy under the condition of disequilibrium. Credited with developing the theory of economic disequilibrium, Professor Li distinguishes two types of disequilibrium on the basis of whether or not the majority of firms in the economy are viable profit-makers. In Chinese Economy in Disequilibrium, Professor Li points out that not only has China’s economy been in a state of disequilibrium, but it also has issues with enterprises not being under budget constraint. Given the limitations of market regulation under economic disequilibrium, Professor Li advocates the reform of the enterprise system and upholds the government’s leading role in the establishment of order in the socialist commodity economy. A number of measures are also proposed with the aim of facilitating the transition of China’s economy from disequilibrium to equilibrium. The central theme is that the reform and transition are means to serve economic growth and social development, which would eventually benefit the ordinary citizens in society. Yining Li is a Professor of Economics and Emeritus Dean of Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. He is one of China’s foremost economists, and the author of twenty books and numerous articles on a wide range of economic subjects including reform and development in China. He has received a number of prestigious awards and honours for his research. As the leading proponent of a market economy in China, Professor Li has had a tremendous influence on China’s economic reform policy over the last three decades. He has served on the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China and is currently Vice-Chairman of the Economic Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.


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Policy and Spillover Analysis in the World Economy : A Panel Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Approach
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ISBN: 1616355786 132251030X 1498381154 1475592876 1484362500 9781484362501 Year: 2014 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This paper develops a structural macroeconometric model of the world economy, disaggregated into forty national economies. This panel dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model features a range of nominal and real rigidities, extensive macrofinancial linkages, and diverse spillover transmission channels. A variety of monetary policy analysis, fiscal policy analysis, spillover analysis, and forecasting applications of the estimated model are demonstrated. These include quantifying the monetary and fiscal transmission mechanisms, accounting for business cycle fluctuations, and generating relatively accurate forecasts of inflation and output growth.

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Free trade. --- International Monetary Fund. --- World Bank. --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- International Finance --- Capital movements --- Monetary policy --- Fiscal policy --- Business cycles --- Econometric models. --- Tax policy --- Taxation --- Capital flight --- Capital flows --- Capital inflow --- Capital outflow --- Flight of capital --- Flow of capital --- Movements of capital --- Government policy --- Economic policy --- Finance, Public --- Balance of payments --- Foreign exchange --- International finance --- Economic forecasting --- Computable general equilibrium models --- Panel analysis --- Econometric models --- E-books --- Panel studies --- Social sciences --- Statistics --- CGE models --- Equilibrium models, Computable general --- General equilibrium models, Computable --- Methodology --- Banks and Banking --- Econometrics --- Exports and Imports --- Investments: General --- Macroeconomics --- Inflation --- Bayesian Analysis: General --- Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Models with Panel Data --- Model Construction and Estimation --- Forecasting and Other Model Applications --- Price Level --- Deflation --- Business Fluctuations --- Cycles --- Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy --- Monetary Policy --- Fiscal Policy --- Open Economy Macroeconomics --- Empirical Studies of Trade --- Investment --- Capital --- Intangible Capital --- Capacity --- Macroeconomics: Consumption --- Saving --- Wealth --- Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models --- Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects --- International economics --- Econometrics & economic statistics --- Banking --- Terms of trade --- Return on investment --- Consumption --- Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models --- Central bank policy rate --- National accounts --- International trade --- Econometric analysis --- Prices --- nternational cooperation --- Saving and investment --- Economics --- Interest rates --- United Kingdom


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Renormalization Group Analysis of Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Charged Systems
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ISBN: 3319061542 3319061534 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This thesis has two parts, each based on an application of the renormalization-group (RG). The first part is an analysis of the d-dimensional Coulomb gas. The goal was to determine if the Wilson RG could provide input into particle-in-cell simulations in plasma physics, which are the main family of simulation methods used in this field. The role of the RG was to identify the effect of coarse-graining on the coupling constants as a function of the cut-offs. The RG calculation reproduced established results, but in a more concise form, and showed the effect of the cut-offs on the Debye screening length. The main part of the thesis is the application of the dynamic RG to turbulence in magnetohydrodynamics. After transformation to Elsasser variables, which is a symmetrisation of the original equations, the solution is presented as a functional integral, which includes stirring forces, their conjugates and functional Jacobian. The coarse-graining of the functional integral is represented as a diagrammatic expansion, followed by rescaling, and casting the results into differential equations for the analysis of RG trajectories. Detailed comparisons are made with the Navier-Stokes limit and with previous calculations for MHD.


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Economic analyses using the overlapping generations model and general equilibrium growth accounting for the Japanese economy : population, agriculture and economic development
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ISBN: 9814571490 9789814571494 1306942055 9781306942058 Year: 2014 Publisher: Singapore : World Scientific,

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This unique book contains novel and in-depth research regarding economic development in Japan. The authors examine economic development in Japan from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Using general equilibrium growth accounting and the overlapping generations model, they analyze the relationships between population, agriculture and the economy. The research results are unprecedented and show the effects of increased adult longevity on national savings and the effects of demographic change on the industrial structure; the push-pull effects of technical change in agricultural and non-


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Unraveling the Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism in Sri Lanka
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ISBN: 1498314686 1484302087 Year: 2014 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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In this paper we examine the channels through which innovations to policy variables— policy rates or monetary aggregates—affect such macroeconomic variables as output and inflation in Sri Lanka. The effectiveness of monetary policy instruments is judged through the prism of conventional policy channels (money/interest rate, bank lending, exchange rate and asset price channels) in VAR models. The timing and magnitude of these effects are assessed using impulse response functions, and through the pass-through coefficients from policy to money market and lending rates. Our results show that (i) the interest rate channel (money view) has the strongest Granger effect (helps predict) on output with a 0.6 percent decrease in output after the second quarter and a cumulative 0.5 percent decline within a three-year period in response to innovations in the policy rate; (ii) the contribution from the bank lending channel is statistically significant (adding 0.2 percentage point to the baseline effect of policy rates) in affecting both output and prices but with a lag of about five quarters for output and longer for prices; and (iii) the exchange rate and asset price channels are ineffective and do not have Granger effects on either output or prices.


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Demand Functions and the Slutsky Matrix. (PSME-7), Volume 7
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ISBN: 0691042225 1306989531 1400853060 0691616140 9781400853069 0691643466 9780691042220 Year: 2014 Volume: 7 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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The utility idea has had a long history in economics, especially in the explanation of demand and in welfare economics. In a comprehensive survey and critique of the Slutsky theory and the pattern to which it belongs in the economic context, S. N. Afriat offers a resolution of questions central to its main idea, including sufficient conditions as well.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Demand functions (Economic theory) --- Utility theory --- 330.105 --- 338.5 --- Demand (Economic theory) --- Value --- Revealed preference theory --- Demand curves (Economic theory) --- Functions, Demand (Economic theory) --- Economics --- 330.105 Wiskundige economie. Wiskundige methoden in de economie --- Wiskundige economie. Wiskundige methoden in de economie --- 338.5 Prijsvorming. Prijskostenverhouding. Prijsbeweging. Prijsfluctuatie--macroeconomisch; prijsindex zie {336.748.12} --- Prijsvorming. Prijskostenverhouding. Prijsbeweging. Prijsfluctuatie--macroeconomisch; prijsindex zie {336.748.12} --- Mathematical models --- Quantitative methods (economics) --- E-books --- Utility theory. --- DEMAND FUNCTIONS (Economic theory) --- Adjoint. --- Aggregate supply. --- Arrow's impossibility theorem. --- Axiom. --- Big O notation. --- Bruno de Finetti. --- Chain rule. --- Coefficient. --- Commodity. --- Concave function. --- Continuous function. --- Convex cone. --- Convex function. --- Convex set. --- Corollary. --- Cost curve. --- Cost-effectiveness analysis. --- Cost–benefit analysis. --- Counterexample. --- Demand curve. --- Derivative. --- Determinant. --- Differentiable function. --- Differential calculus. --- Differential equation. --- Differential form. --- Divisia index. --- Economic equilibrium. --- Economics. --- Einstein notation. --- Equivalence relation. --- Explicit formulae (L-function). --- Factorization. --- Frobenius theorem (differential topology). --- Function (mathematics). --- Functional equation. --- General equilibrium theory. --- Heine–Borel theorem. --- Hessian matrix. --- Homogeneous function. --- Idempotence. --- Identity (mathematics). --- Identity matrix. --- Inequality (mathematics). --- Inference. --- Infimum and supremum. --- Integrating factor. --- Interdependence. --- Interval (mathematics). --- Inverse demand function. --- Inverse function theorem. --- Inverse function. --- Invertible matrix. --- Lagrange multiplier. --- Lagrangian (field theory). --- Lagrangian. --- Law of demand. --- Limit point. --- Line segment. --- Linear function. --- Linear inequality. --- Linear map. --- Linearity. --- Logical disjunction. --- Marginal cost. --- Mathematical induction. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Maxima and minima. --- Monotonic function. --- Ordinary differential equation. --- Orthogonal complement. --- Oskar Morgenstern. --- Pareto efficiency. --- Partial derivative. --- Permutation. --- Preference (economics). --- Price index. --- Principal part. --- Production function. --- Production theory. --- Quasiconvex function. --- Recursive definition. --- Reductio ad absurdum. --- Regular matrix. --- Requirement. --- Row and column vectors. --- Samuelson condition. --- Second derivative. --- Sign (mathematics). --- Special case. --- Statistic. --- Support function. --- Symmetric relation. --- Theorem. --- Theory. --- Transpose. --- Upper and lower bounds. --- Utility. --- Variable (mathematics). --- Welfare economics.

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