Computable general equilibrium approaches in urban and regional policy studies / editor, Masayuki Doi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- pt. I. CGE model approach. ch. 1. Introduction to computable general equilibrium approaches in urban and regional policy studies / Masayuki Doi. ch. 2. CGE model and its micro and macro closures / Mitsuo Ezaki -- pt. II. Tax policies. ch. 3. The macroeconomic impact of the IMF recommended VAT policy for the Fiji economy: evidence from a CGE model / Paresh Kumar Narayan. ch. 4. An applied general equilibrium model to assess the impact of national tax changes on a regional economy / Manuel Alejandro Cardenete and Ferran Sancho -- pt. III. CGE models for small cities and multi-regions. ch. 5. Building small city and town: SAMs and CGE models revisited / Walter Schwarm and Havery Cutler. ch. 6. A large-scale dynamic multi-regional CGE model with an illustrative application / James A. Giesecke and John R. Madden.

pt. IV. Infrastructure and environmental policies. ch. 7. Computable general equilibrium analysis of efficiency improvements at Japanese ports / Masayuki Doi, Hidekazu Itoh and Piyush Tiwari. ch. 8. Incorporating local health in assessing GHG mitigation: an application to Thailand / Jennifer C. Li. ch. 9. Economic analysis of urban land use and housing supply: an application of urban land use and a CGE model for Seoul / Euijune Kim and Jaeuk Ju -- pt. V. Industrial policies. ch. 10. The economic importance of the sugar industry for Fiji / Paresh Kumar Narayan and Biman Chand Prasad. ch. 11. A CGE approach to measuring the sectoral contribution to an economy: an application to Western Australian agriculture / Helal Ahammad.

Pt. VI. Trade and international policies. ch. 12. The impacts of redesigning European agricultural support / Søoren E. Frandsen, Birgitte Gersfelt and Hans G. Jensen. ch. 13. Regional and national perspectives of China's integration into the WTO: a CGE inquiry with emphasis on the agricultural sector / Xinshen Diao. ch. 14. Welfare effects of trade and factor market reforms in China / Masayuki Doi, Piyush Tiwari and Tetsu Kawakami. ch. 15. Sustainable development and globalization in a world with unequal starting points / Brantley Liddle. ch. 16. The impact of Japanese economic cooperation on Asian economic development / Kenichi Kawasaki. ch. 17. Regional economic integration and its impacts on growth, poverty and income distribution: the case of Vietnam / Tien Dung Nguyen and Mitsuo Ezaki.

Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) approaches have been used extensively over the past 25 years to analyze government and other policies for both developed and developing countries. Advances in methodology, computation techniques and data availability, including Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) data, have allowed researchers to use CGE models to study the potential policy impacts of tax, trade, environmental issues, etc. at the urban and regional levels as well as the macro level. What is common with these policy topics is that they cause structural, long-term impacts, including price changes.

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