Modeling with Impact

EcoMod2008

António AFONSO, Christophe RAULT
What do we Really Know About Fiscal Sustainability in the EU? A Panel Data Diagnostic

Abdejalil AHMED
The Extent of Farm Credit in the Libyan Agricultural Sector

Lal ALMAS
Economic Optimization Models to Project Income and Hydrological Changes: A Case of Groundwater Management in Texas

Niels ANGER, Jayant SATHAYE
Reducing Deforestation and Trading Emissions: Carbon Market Impacts of post-Kyoto Climate Policies

Nabil ANNABI, Simon HARVEY, Yu LAN
Public Expenditures on Education, Human Capital and Growth in Canada: An OLG Model Analysis

Ignacio Tavares ARAUJO JUNIOR, Nayana RUTH FIGUEREDO
Unions and Economic Inefficiency in Brazil: A CGE Approach

Alfonso ARPAIA, Alessandro TURRINI
Government Expenditure and Economic Growth in the EU: Long-Run Tendencies and Short-Term Adjustment

Adriana ARREAZA-COLL
Innovation Shortfalls in Venezuela: The Role of Distortions

Carlos AZZONI, Raul SILVEIRA-NETO
Non-spatial Government Policies and Regional Income Inequality in Brazil

Nihal BAYRAKTAR, Emmanuel PINTO MOREIRA
The Composition of Public Expenditure and Growth: A Small-scale Intertemporal Model for Low-Income Countries

Ansgar BELKE, Walter ORTH, Ralph SETZER
Global Liquidity and House Prices: A VAR Analysis for OECD Countries

Nabil BEN ARFA
Analysis of Shocks Affecting Europe: EMU and Some Central and Eastern Acceding Countries

Keshab BHATTARAI
Bargaining, Coalitions, Signalling and Repeated Games for Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation

Keshab BHATTARAI
General Equilibrium with Unemployment: Theory and Application

Stefan BOETERS
Optimal Tax Progressivity in Unionised Labour Markets: What are the Driving Forces?

Lumengo BONGA-BONGA, Lorraine GREYLING, Martin PERROLD
A CGE Simulation of a Flat Tax as a Possibility for Tax Reform in South Africa

Ole BOYSEN, Alan MATTHEWS
Poverty Impacts of an Economic Partnership Agreement between Uganda and the EU

Jean Louis BRILLET
Does Foreign Direct Investment Improve the Consequences of WTO Accession? Illustration using a Vietnamese Macro Econometric Model

Thomas BRUCKNER, K. ZICKFELD
Inverse Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: the Guard-rail Approach

Hana BRUHOVA-FOLTYNOVA, Jan BRUHA
Unobserved Components of Fuel Consumption: Welfare Implications of Transport Price Changes

Hielke BUDDELMEYER, Guyonne KALB
Labour Supply and Welfare Participation in the Australian Population: Using Observed Job Search to Account for Involuntary Unemployment

Roberta CARDANI
Optimal Monetary Policy with Wealth Effect and Cost Channel

Alejandro CARDENETE, Patricia FUENTES SAGUAR, Clemente POLO
Energy System and CO2 emissions: a SAM Analysis

Corinne CHATON, Farid GASMI, Marie-Laure GUILLERMINET, Juan D. OVIEDO

Gas Release and Transport Capacity Investment as Instruments to Foster Competition in Gas Markets

Carlos CINQUETTI
Comparative Advantages and Average Costs Under Trade Protection

Giulia COLOMBO
The Effects of DR-CAFTA in Nicaragua: A CGE-Microsimulation Model for Poverty and Inequality Analysis

Zsolt DARVAS, Zoltán SCHEPP
Forecasting Exchange Rates of Major Currencies with Long Maturity Forward Rates

Renginar DAYANGAÇ, Bilge ÖZTÜRK
Rethinking the Informal Labour from an Evolutionary Point of View

Lilian DE MENEZES, Garry GELADE, Stephen WOOD
A Longitudinal Study of the Latent Class Clusters of Modern Management Practices and their Association with Organizational Performance in British Manufacturing

Stephane DEES, Audrone JAKAITIENE
Short-term Forecasting Methods of International Trade Variables

Olga DIUKANOVA, James LENNOX
Modelling Regional General Equilibrium Effects and Irrigation in Canterbury

Azharia ELBUSHRA, Ali SALIH, Marc MULLER
Effects of Tariff Reform on Sudan's Economy: Applied General Equilibrium Analysis

Salah EL-SHEIKH
Will the Marshall Laws of Derived Demand Stand Up? An Interpretation and Correction of Hicks´ Elasticity rules

Can ERBIL, Durmus OZDEMIR
Does Financial Liberalization Trigger Long-Run Economic Growth?

Mahmut ERDOGAN, Jülide YILDIRIM, Nadir ÖCAL
Financial Development and Economic Growth in Turkey: a Spatial Effect Analysis

Taran FÆHN, Brita BYE, Leo Andreas GRÜNFELD
The Two Faces of R&D-Based Innovation in a Small, Open Economy. How to Stimulate Productivity?

Karl FARMER, Birgit FRIEDL, Andreas RAINER
Unilateral Reduction of Emission Permits, Terms of Trade, Capital Accumulation, and Welfare in a World Economy: Theoretical and Numerical Analysis

Mohammad Reza FARZANEGAN, Gunther MARKWARDT
The Effects of Oil Price Shocks on the Iranian Economy

Simon FAUSER, Maurizio BAUSSOLA, Jürgen ROTH
The Footprint of Innovation- Regional Labour Market Reactions to Macroeconomic Shocks

Maxime FOUGÈRE, Simon HARVEY, Yu LAN, Andre LEONARD, , Bruno RAINVILLE

Incentives for Early Retirement in Canada's Defined-Benefit Public and Private Pension Plans: An Analysis with a Dynamic Life-Cycle CGE Model

Roland FÜSS, Michael M. BECHTEL
Capitalizing on Partisan Politics: Expected Government Partisanship and Sector-Specific Redistribution in Germany

Jan GADOMSKI, Zbigniew NAHORSKI
Modeling Impact of Greenhouse Gases Emission Limiting Policy on Technology Conversion

Murat GENÇ, Murray SMITH
Wage Gaps in the New Zealand Labour Market

Patrick GEORGES, Marcel MERETTE, Yazid DISSOU
Liberalizing Foreign Direct Investment Restrictions in Canada: A Multi-Country Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Ali GÖKHAN, Alpay FILIZTEKIN
The Determinants of Internal Migration In Turkey

Idil GOKSEL
The determinants of the School Attainment in Turkey and the Imapct of the Extension of the Compulsory Education

Claudia GUAGLIANO, Juan LOPEZ
Is cooperative Banks' Reaction to Business Cycle Different?

Bulent GULOGLU
Exports and Volatility of Exchange Rate Under Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes:The Case of Turkey

Mahmut GÜNAY, Cengiz CIHAN, Seref SAYGILI, Mesut SAYGILI, Azim ÖZDEMIER
Trade Block of Quarterly Macroeconometric Model of Turkey

Rimel HEBIRI, Sami KHEDHIRI
Education and Growth: Evidence from MENA countries

Frank HESPELER
On Boundary Conditions within the Solution of Macroeconomic Dynamic Models with Rational Expectations

Dirk HOORELBEKE, Delphine BASSILIÈRE, Francis BOSSIER, Frédéric CARUSO, Ingrid BRACKE

A Regional Econometric Model for Belgium

Jose Luis IPARRAGUIRRE
Northern Ireland's Input-Output Table. An application of Kronenberg's Derivative Approach

Mohanad ISMAEL, Francesco MAGRIS
Indeterminacy with Externalities and Capital Utilization

Jean-François JACQUES, Florence ARESTOFF
Minimum Educational Standard to Complement Taxation in the Presence of Hidden Activities

Fadi KANSO
Wages and Penalties in Fighting Hierarchical Corruption (Tax Administration Case)

Chander KANT
Relationship between Different Types of Private Capital Flows to Developing Countries

Nihal KARALI, Kemal SARICA
Diffusion Potential of New Energy Efficient Technologies Under an Uncertain Environment

Fida KARAM, Bernard DECALUWÉ
Migration Impact on Moroccan Unemployment: a Static Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Bora KAT, Çaglar GÜVEN, Ebru VOYVODA
A General Equilibrium Energy-Economy Model for Turkey

Konstantin KHOLODILIN, Tanja FENDEL
Economic Impact of a Potential FTA Between EU and ASEAN on the German Economy

Motaz KHORSHID
Social Accounting Matrix for Modeling and Policy Analysis: "Experiences from the Gulf Cooperation council countries"

Aliakbar KHOSRAVINEJAD , Amin MALEKI

From Targeting to Clustering

Aliakbar KHOSRAVINEJAD
Welfare Effects of Food Desubsidization For Iranian Urban Households (The Index Number and Demand System Approach)

Brigitte KNOPF, Ottmar EDENHOFER, Nico BAUER, Lavinia BAUMSTARK, Marian LEIMBACH
Why Hybrid Models are the Way to go for Assessing Climate Policies

Jong-Hwan KO
Analysis of Economic Effects of the Korea-U.S. FTA using a Dynamic CGE Model

Ying KONG, Hsiao-Chan WANG
A Game Theory Model of Inverse Pricing Strategy

Juraj KOPECSNI, Libor DUSEK
Policy Risk in Action: Pension Reforms and Social Security Wealth in Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia

Nebile KORUCU, Jülide YILDIRIM, Semsettin KARASU
Further Education or Reenlistment Decision in Turkish Armed Forces: A Seemingly Unrelated Probit Analysis

Kurt KRATENA, Ina MEYER, Michael WUEGER
Modelling the Energy Demand of Households in a Combined Top Down/Bottom Up Approach

Tobias KRONENBERG
The Impact of Demographic Change on Infrastructure Use: An Input-Output Approach

Michael KUEHL
Strong Comovements of Exchange Rates: Theoretical and Empirical Cases when Currencies Become the Same Asset

Vladimir KUZIN, Ulrich FRITSCHE
Transition Paths to Convergence and Convergence Clusters in EMU: Evidence from a Nonlinear Time-Varying Factor Model Framework

Hildegunn KYVIK NORDÅS
Producer Services and Trade in Manufactured Goods

Anne-Kathrin LAST
The Monetary Value of Cultural Goods: A Contingent Valuation Study of the Municipal Supply of Cultural Goods in Lueneburg, Germany

Isabelle LEBON, Frédéric GAVREL, Thérèse REBIÈRE
How does the Minimum Wage Affect Employment via On-The-Job Search Intensity? On the Partial and General Equilibrium of the Mandatory Minimum Wage

Patrizio LECCA, Giorgio GARAU
Impact Analysis of Regional Knowledge Subsidy: a CGE Approach Applied to Sardinia

Ulrike LEHR, Dietmar EDLER, Christian LUTZ, Marlene KRATZAT

Impact of Renewable Energy on Jobs and Growth

Marian LEIMBACH, Nico BAUER, Lavinia BAUMSTARK
Analysis of post-2012 Climate Policy Regimes

Kai LESSMANN, Robert MARSCHINSKI, Ottmar EDENHOFER
The Effects of Trade Sanctions in International Environmental Agreements

Cher LI, Richard HARRIS
Learning-by-Exporting? Firm-Level Evidence for UK Manufacturing and Services Sectors

Liis LILL
Socio-Economic Determinants of Crime in Estonia: A Regioanl Analysis

Assessing Economic Complexity in some OECD countries with Input-Output Based Measures

Enrico MARCHETTI, Giuseppe CICCARONE
Linear Contracts, Common Agency and Central Bank Preference Uncertainty

Ken’ichi MATSUMOTO
International Emissions Trading as a Climate Change Policy. Considering a Fine: An Analysis Applying a Multi Agent Model

Alain MAURIN, Alain GUAY
An Adaptation of the MIDAS Regression Model for Estimating and Forecasting Quarterly GDP : Application to the Case of Guadeloupe

Tim MENNEL, Claudia HERMELING
Sensitivity Analysis in Economic Simulations - a Systematic Approach

Marcel MÉRETTE, Evangelia PAPADAKI
Some Border Management Options: A CGE Investigation

Marcel MÉRETTE, Guohan ZHU
An OLG-CGE Modeling Framework for Bilateral Migration

Timo MITZE, Björn ALECKE, Gerhard UNTIEDT
Determinants of Interregional Migration Among German States and its Implications for Reducing East-West Disparities: Results from a Panel VAR Using Efficient GMM Estimation

Suresh MOKTAN
Assessing the Economic Impacts and Welfare Implications of SAFTA and SAFTA+3+2: The South Asian Experience

Paola MONPERRUS-VERONI , Frédéric REYNES, Aurélien GAIMON

Does the Interaction between Shocks and Institutions Solve the OECD Unemployment Puzzle? A Theoretical and Empirical Appraisal

Mohammad Ali MORADI
A GARCH Model of Inflation and Inflation Uncertainty in Iran

Knud MUNK
On the Use of Border Taxes in Developing Countries

Gabriella NEMETH, Laszlo SZABO, Juan Carlos CISCAR
Estimation of Armington elasticities for the EU

Duc De NGO, Mahito OKURA
Coopetition in a Mixed Duopoly Market

Rouhia NOOMENE, Roberto LOPEZ
Forecasting of International Financial Markets with Neural Networks: a New Approach

Ulrich OBERNDORFER
Returns and Volatility of Eurozone Energy Stocks

Gbadebo ODULARU
How Large is Tourism's Impact on the West Africa Economy? An Econometric Investigation

Bilge ÖZTÜRK, Renginar DAYANGAÇ
Segmented Labour Market and Private PEnsion Decisions

PKG HARISCHANDRA, George CHOULIARAKIS
Do Exchange Rate Regimes Matter for Inflation Persistence? Theory and Evidence from the History of UK and US Inflation

Ruslana Rachel PALATNIK
Climate Change Assessment and Agriculture in General Equilibrium Models: Alternative Modeling Strategies

Katerina PAPAGIANNAKI, Danae DIAKOULAKI
Decomposition Analysis of CO2 Emissions from Passenger Cars: The cases of Greece and Denmark

Alex PARKHOMENKO, I. IVASHKOVSKAYA, I. KUZNETSOV
Country Risk Adjustments to Market Multiples-Based Valuation in Emerging Markets: Empirical Study for Russia

Beatrice PATARACCHIA
Design-Limits in Regime-Switching cases

Alari PAULUS, Andreas PEICHL
Effects of Flat Tax Reforms in Western Europe on Equity and Efficiency

Andreas PEICHL
The Benefits of Linking CGE and Microsimulation Models - Evidence from a Flat Tax analysis

Esther PEREZ RUIZ, Alfonso ARPAIA
Labour Share Dynamcis in Europe: a Time-Horizon Approach

Inés PÉREZ-SOBA, Ana MARTINEZ-CAÑETE
Tender Offers in Spain: Testing the Wave

José PINEDA, Lenin BALZA, María CABALLERO, Leonardo ORTEGA

Market Diversification and Exports Growth in Latin America

Natalia PRESSMAN, Vadim KLEPFISH
Regional Unemployment Rate Convergence in Israel

Duo QIN, Tao TAN
How Much Intraregional Exchange Rate Variability Could A Currency Union Remove? The Case of ASEAN+3

Marek RADVANSKÝ, Vladimír KVETAN
Modeling of Sustainability of Pension System - Case of Slovak Republic

Thérèse REBIÈRE, Frédéric GAVREL, Isabelle LEBON
Career Paths, Unemployment and the Efficiency of the Labor Market: Should Youth Employment be Subsidized?

Antonio RIBBA
On Some Neglected Implications of the Fisher Effect

Sherman ROBINSON, Scott MCDONALD, Karen THIERFELDER
Leveling the Playing Field: Taxing Energy Use and Carbon Emissions

Kenneth Løvold RØDSETH
Efficient Supply of Cultural Landscape in a CGE Framework

Hugo ROJAS-ROMAGOSA, Arjan LEJOUR, Gerard VERWEIJ
Opening Services Markets within Europe: Modelling Foreign Establishments in a CGE Framework

Nils ROLOFF, Ulrike LEHR, Wolfram KREWITT, Gerhard FUCHS , Sandra WASSERMANN, Wolfganf WEIMER-JEHLE, Bernd SCHMIDT

Success Determinants for Technological Innovations in the Energy Sector - The Case of Photovoltaics

Diego ROMERO-ÁVILA
Physical Investment and Growth in the Chinese Provinces: Testing the Empirical Validity of the AK Model, 1952-2004

Angi RÖSCH, Harald SCHMIDBAUER

Volatility Spillovers between Crude Oil Prices and US Dollar to Euro Exchange Rates

Fabio RUMLER, Johann SCHARLER
Labor Market Institutions and Macroeconomic Volatility in a Panel of OECD Countries

Ferhan SALMAN, Tolga CASKURLU, Mustafa PINAR, Aslihan SALIH

Can Central Bank Interventions Affect the Exchange Rate Volatility? Multivariate GARCH Approach Using Constrained Nonlinear Programming

Susana SALVADO, Miguel LEBRE DE FREITAS
Industry Similarities, Comparative Advantage and Upscale Opportunities for Portugal in the Process of Structural Transformation: an Empirical Assessment Based on 2005 Trade Data

Alfonso SANCHEZ-MARTIN, Virginia SANCHEZ-MARCOS
Demographic Change, Pension Reform and Redistribution in Spain

Ron SANDS, Katja SCHUMACHER
Decomposition Analysis and Climate Policy in a General Equilibrium Model of Germany

Susana SANTOS
A SAM-based Model, Constructed from the SNA, to be Used for Studying the Distributional Impacts of Government Policies in Portugal.

Burkhard SCHADE
A Sensitivity-Analysis to Investigate the Impacts of Oil and Gas Resources on the Energy Market

Harald SCHMIDBAUER, Eren KALAYCIO?LU
Crude Oil and Oil-Related Turkish Company Stocks: A Volatility Analysis

Carsten SCHRÖDER, Christos KOULOVATIANOS, Ulrich SCHMIDT
Family-type Subistence Incomes

Antonio SCIALA', Paolo LIBERATI
The Impact of Economic Openness on the Vertical Structure of the Public Sector

Aylin SECKIN, Erdal ATUKEREN
Investment Characteristics of the Market for Paintings in Turkey: 1989 - 2006

Ruba SHANTI, Yousef DAOUD, Shaker SARSOUR
Forecasting Inflation Rate Behavior In Palestine: A Time Series Analysis

Mordechai SHECHTER, Ruslana Rachel PALATNIK
Can Climate Change Mitigation Policy Benefit the Israeli Economy? A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Boriss SILIVERSTOVS, Dieter SCHUMACHER
Aggregated vs Disaggregated Trade Flows and the "Missing Globalization Puzzle"

Frauke SKUDELNY, Bettina LANDAU
Pass-Through of External Shocks Along the Pricing Chain: A Panel Estimation Approach for the Euro Area

Karsten STAEHR
Estimates of Employment and Welfare Effects of Labour Income Taxation in a Country with a Flat: the Case of Estonia

Karl W. STEININGER, Alexandra TOBIN , Christoph SCHMID
Overall and Regional Economic Impacts of an Area-Wide Heavy Vehicle Duty: Comparing the Results of an Input-Output and a CGE Analysis

Michael STIMMELMAYR
What Drives Wage Inequality?

Adolf STROOMBERGEN
General Equilibrium Analysis of Options for Meeting New Zealand's International Emissions Obligations

Sofyan SYAHNUR, Klaus FROHBERG
The Impact of Oil Price Behavior on the Poor in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province, Indonesia

Aysit TANSEL
Changing Returns To Education For Men And Women In A Developing Country: Turkey, 1994, 2002-2005

Jules-Eric TCHAPCHET TCHOUTO
Tradable Emission Permits & Environmental Maintenance in an Overlapping Generations General Equilibrium Model

Metin TEKTAS
Impacts Of Agricultural Policies On Income And Income Distribution in Turkey: A Social Accounting Matrix Analysis

Wilairat TONGSIRI, Hiroyuki KOSAKA
Asian Financial Liberalization and its Impact using Asian International Input-Output Model

Panos TSAKLOGLOU, Christos KOUTSAMBELAS
Distributional Effects of Public Education Transfers in Greece

Utai UPRASEN, Bernadette ANDREOSSO-O'CALLAGHAN
Impact of the 5th EU Enlargement on ASEAN

Carlos USABIAGA, Diego ROMERO-ÁVILA
The Hypothesis of a Unit Root in OECD Inflation Revisited

Lenno UUSKÜLA
Limited Participation or Sticky Prices? New Evidence from Firm Entry and Failures

Bruno VAN POTTELSBERGHE, Nicolas VAN ZEEBROECK
Filing Strategies and Patent Value

Frank VAN TONGEREN, Marie-Luise RAU
Heterogeneous Firms and Homogenising Standards in Agri-Food Trade - the Polish Meat Case

Belem VASQUEZ-GALAN
Quaternarisation of the Economy and Policy Implications for Development. The Monterrey Metropolitan Area (Mexico)

Elsa Cristina VAZ
Sectoral Leadership in International Competitiveness

Angelos VOULDIS, Panayotis MICHAELIDES, John MILIOS
Do Technology Shocks affect Output and Profitability over the Business Cycle in Greece (1960-2008)?

Thanet WATTANAKUL
Thailand's Openness and Implications for Economic and Trade Policy: An Econometric Study

Dirk WILLENBOCKEL, Scott MCDONALD
India, Brazil, South Africa and China: Is the South Big Enough?

Etti WINTER, Klaus FROHBERG
Management Options of Conserving the Kakamega Tropical Rainforest: a Game-Theoretic Village Modelling Approach

Takashi YANO, Hiroyuki KOSAKA
The Structure and Application of a Price-Linked International Input-Output Model

Giovanna ZANOLLA, Flavio V. RUFFINI, Kathrin RENNER, Thomas STREIFENEDER
Dying and Flourishing Municipalities: Population Trend in the Period 1971-2004 and Economic Structure in the Italian Alps.

Xiaojian ZHAO
Framing Contingencies in Contracts

Huanhuan ZHENG, Qingyang GU
Measuring Inter-Regional Trade Barriers