GAMS-MPSGE documentation:
Introduction:
What is MPSGE? - GAMS page about MPSGE
Syntax - MPSGE syntax (also available in PDF format)
Introduction to MPSGE - Intermediate level introduction to MPSGE: Demand Theory and General Equilibrium
Lecture Notes on CES Functions
OLG in MPSGE - Overlapping Generations with Pure Exchange: An MPSGE Formulation
Water Trade - An illustrative MPSGE model -- water allocation and water trade
Import Quota in MPSGE - Applying import quota in a small open economy
Tariff Reform in a small open economy - Tariff reform analysis for an open economy model based on a social accounting matrix
Tax policy model in Colombia -- a static model, with associated files here.
Tourism in a small open economy - Study the impact of a decline in global tourism and the resulting change in a small open economy.
An open economy model for Tanzania based on a 124 row SAM, including GAMS code for matrix balance, data translation and an illustrative model implemented in MPSGE
International Aid in a small open economy - Alternative aid programs for an open economy model based on a social accounting matrix
BEFORE versus AFTER, illustrating the virtues of set notation.
Tools for building national models using state-level IMPLAN social accounts.
The IFPRI model in MPSGE syntax.
Moving From an IO Table to a CGE Model - From an Input-Output Table to a General Equilibrium Model: Assessing the Excess Burden of Indirect Taxes in Russia (Pedagogic Paper)
The GTAPinGAMS package of the global economic datasets and illustrative models for use in the quantitative analyses of international economic issues
Modeling unanticipated shocks.
Developing Domestic Entrepreneurship and Growth through Imported Expertise, written with Jim Markusen. Here is the model directory. See RUN.BAT for scenario, figure and table definitions.
Calibration of Models with Multi-Year Periods
On the Assessment of Economic Cost in Dynamic Economic Models
Dynamics: Ramsey Model - Rutherford's Primer in Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis
Simple Dynamics: Ramsey - Moving from Static to Dynamic General Equilibrium Economic Models (Notes for a beginner in MPSGE)
Intertemporal consumption choices.
Extant and vintage capital in a Ramsey model.
Yet another note on Dynamics - Recursive versus Intertemporal: A Worked Example
OLG - Modeling Overlapping Generations in a Complementarity Format
Economic Transition, Entrepreneurial Capacity, and Intergenerational Distribution
Coalition Formation and International Trade in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
In Search of a Rationale for Differentiated Environmental Taxes
An illustrative GAMS implementation of the Harrison, Horridge, and K.R. Pearson decomposition technique.
Last Updated 03/15/02
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