 Jan van Heerden of the University of Pretoria has
developed several variants of his UPGEM CGE model of South Africa. Environmental
concerns, such as energy
or water shortage, are a special focus. As well as using GEMPACK in regular teaching, Jan
has conducted several training courses based around UPGEM. He has also used CGE modelling
in several commercial consultancies, including a study of the effects of expanding the
higher education sector.
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 Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho of the ESALQ campus of the
Universidade de São Paulo has
developed several CGE models of Brazil, emphasizing regional and
distributional concerns. He has designed post-graduate courses in CGE model-building,
and has co-ordinated the translation of various resources into
Portuguese.
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 Professor Armida Alisjahbana and her team at the Center for Economics and Development Studies at
Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, West Java, are developing the INDOTERM CGE model of the
Indonesian and West Java economies to study the national and regional (West Java) impacts
of national and regional economic policies. Their simulations show the effects of:
allowing rice imports; growing bio-diesel fuel; and changes in commodity
prices.
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 Maureen Rimmer of CoPS pushes GEMPACK to the limit! She works with Peter
Dixon on the large MONASH-USA model, which distinguishes 500
sectors, 50 states and 700 occupations. To perform multi-period forecasts with so large a
model is necessarily time- consuming -- efforts by GEMPACK developers to reduce her
simulation times have led to efficiency gains which benefit us all.
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 Kevin Hanslow has developed extraordinary technical skills during many years
of CGE modelling, at the Productivity Commission, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural
and Resource Economics, and now at the Centre
for International Economics. He has uncovered a number of subtle GEMPACK bugs, and
suggested several improvements.
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 Dr. Chunto Tso,and his team (Ms. Chihwei Wang and Mr. Hau Ju) of the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research
are developing an energy-oriented CGE model of Taiwan. The model, called Triple E, is
based on the TAIGEM model and is currently being used to examine the potential impacts of
fuel cell motors for motor scooters.
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 Edson Domingues of the CEDEPLAR Regional Studies Centre in the Federal
University of Minas Gerais uses a bottom-up regional CGE of Brazil (with 27 states and
558 sub-regions) to model regional effects of government-funded infrastructure
projects.
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 Professor Yunchang Jeffrey Bor of the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (Taipei,
Taiwan) is Vice President, International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) and a
long-time CGE modeller, focussing particularly on energy-related
problems.
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 Veteran GEMPACKer George Verikios has worked for 3 Australian universities
and for ABARE (Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics) and the
Australian Productivity Commission. He now builds and runs global and national CGE models
for leading Australian economic consultancy, Access Economics. Over the years George has
suggested several improvements to GEMPACK programs -- some addressed to the special
problems caused by corporate IT policies.
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