This paper assesses the effects of applying VAT or a sales tax on (intermediate or final) sales of the financial sector. It uses a CGE Model calibrated for a small open economy. It highlights the differentiated sectoral ...

The aim of this study is to construct the framework of a small computable general equilibrium model with applications to climate change, to evaluate the impact of carbon taxes on GDP and emissions, and to study the sensitivity ...

Water resources are facing several stresses in terms of quantity and quality. These pressures are closely related to the human interventions in fields like: agriculture, land-use/land use change, and pollutant emissions, ...

Water resources are facing several stresses in terms of quantity and quality. These pressures are closely related to the human interventions in fields like: agriculture, land-use/land use change, and pollutant emissions, ...

We contrast Free Trade Areas involving Mercosul and the EU25, the US and China, respectively, using a new CGE model and associated database. Roughly, the China FTA lies halfway the other two, a bias towards the US pattern ...

The present paper evaluates the effects of alternative trade policy reforms to the Central American Common External Tariff (CET) schedule on the Guatemalan economy. To accomplish this, the paper develops a multiperiod ...