• Complemetarity formulation of economic equilibrium
• Partial equilibrium models of international trade
• Stylized CGE analysis: model calibration (calibrated share form) and extensions for price and quantity constraints
• Hands-on session: Economic impacts of free trade agreements (FTA) on commodity markets
• Hands-on session: MCP implementation of stylized closed economy CGE models; (2-sector, 2-factor, 1-household-CGE models; benchmark replication check and debugging

• Open economy extensions: Heckscher-Ohlin and Armington assumptions, small open and large open economy settings
• Trade policy analysis: tariffs and quotas
• MPSGE - a meta-language for large-scale CGE model implementation under GAMS
• Hands-on session: Transformation of CGE models from explicit MCP algebra into MPSGE

• GTAPinGAMS: Dataset and model structure
• GTAP-E: Extension for energy flows and carbon emissions
• Implementation of emission taxes and (tradable) quotas
• Hands-on session: Economic impact analysis of Kyoto (replicating results from peer-reviewed publications)

• Leakage: Definition and policy issues
• Competitiveness: Concepts and policy issues
• Implementation of alternative border measures such as tariffs and rebates on embodied carbon
• Hands-on session: Economic effects of border measures in subglobal climate agreements (replicating results from peer-reviewed publications)

• Oligopoly models with free entry and exit of firms
• Monopolistic competition and external economies of scale
• Implications of border measures on leakage and industry performance

   Prof. Dr. Christoph Boehringer is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oldenburg. His research for the last years has focused on the quantitative analysis of environmental and energy policies based on numerical optimization models. Since 1994, he has been regularly conducting workshops on applied analysis in the fields of environmental, energy, fiscal and trade policies. He has widely published in international journals, including Applied Economics, Canadian Journal, Computational Economics, Ecological Economics, Energy Economics, Energy Journal, Energy Policy, Environmental and Resource Economics, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Policy Modeling, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Kyklos, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, The World Economy.

   Dr. Jared Carbone is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy at the University of Calgary. He earned a BA in Math/Economics from Wesleyan University in 1997 and a PhD in Economics from University of Colorado at Boulder in 2003 under the mentorship of Thomas F. Rutherford. He subsequently worked with V. Kerry Smith as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics Policy at North Carolina State University from 2003 to 2005 and held an appointment as assistant professor at Williams College from 2005 to 2007. Research interests include the evaluation of large-scale environmental and public policy issues including climate change impacts and mitigation strategies, natural disaster response, and pollution policies with important general equilibrium consequences. He has published in international journals like Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Public Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics.

   Dr. Casiano Manrique is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Las Palmas de G.C. In the last years his research has concentrated on optimization methods for the adjustment and updating of Social Accounting Matrices participating in various International Conferences in the field and publishing in various Spanish and international journals. Since 2000 he has been teaching Applied General Equilibrium Modeling at the University of Las Palmas de G.C. (Ph. D. level).

   The workshop provides you with state-of-the-art economic methods to study central issues in climate policy design paying special attention to international trade spillovers.

   30th November - 4th December, 2009