Topics from the Second Annual Conference

The types of papers presented at the 1999 conference fell into three broad categories: methodological developments, data base developments, and empirical applications. More specifically, the following topics were addressed. (This list is only intended to be illustrative of the likely range of papers which will be presented at the 2000 Conference. Submissions on other topics are most welcome.)

You can look at the program and individual papers, from the Second Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis.

Methodological:

• Recent developments in dynamic, multiregion, AGE modeling
• Modeling international capital mobility
• Incorporating environmental considerations into AGE models
• Methods for decomposing results
• Efficient methods for conducting systematic sensitivity analysis
• Endogenous trade and environment policies
• Linking single and multi- region AGE models
• Technology spillovers and endogenous technical change

Data:

• Database for analysis of global energy and environmental issues
• Recent developments in the measurement of services protection
• Estimates of bilateral trade in non- factor services
• Disaggregation of labor by skill level and/ or human capital
• Modification of the GTAP data base for steady state modeling
• Models with imperfect competition and scale economies
• Future developments in the GTAP data base

Applications:

• Trade and welfare implications of carbon taxation
• Growth and trade on wage disparities in industrialized economies
• Linkages between multilateral trade reforms and domestic policies
• Liberalization of trade and investment in services
• Economic impacts of climate change
• Economic analysis of regional trade agreements
• Implications of China's growth for global capital markets
• Distributional implications of R& D

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