Quantifying the Economy-Wide Effects of Agricultural Policies: A General Equilibrium Approach

This paper presents a progress report on the Economics and Statistics Department's applied general equilibrium model -- the WALRAS model. This model has been developed with the explicit objective of quantifying the economy-wide effects of agricultural policies in OECD countries. The common spec...

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Main Author: Burniaux, Jean-Marc (Author)
Other Authors: Delorme, François (Contributor), Lienert, Ian (Contributor), Martin, John P.. (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 1988
Series:OECD Economics Department Working Papers
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Summary:This paper presents a progress report on the Economics and Statistics Department's applied general equilibrium model -- the WALRAS model. This model has been developed with the explicit objective of quantifying the economy-wide effects of agricultural policies in OECD countries. The common specification of the model for the major OECD agricultural trading countries/regions (Australia, Canada, EEC, Japan, New Zealand and the United States) is described in detail. Results are presented for some preliminary simulations of the effects of removing the 1979-81 levels of agricultural assistance in these countries/regions. The initial results relate only to unilateral liberalisation experiments with the unlinked country/region models, with no account being taken of feedback effects through changes in world agricultural prices and trade volumes ...
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (98 Seiten) 21 x 29.7cm
DOI:10.1787/574100212533

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