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GTAP Resource #193

"Decomposing Simulation Results with Respect to Exogenous Shocks"
by Harrison, J, Mark Horridge and Ken Pearson


Abstract
You can download a preliminary version (May 1999) of the paper from
http://www.copsmodels.com/elecpapr/ip-73.htm

Abstract

When a general equilibrium model is solved, there are often a large number of exogenous shocks. The change in each endogenous variable obviously depends on these different shocks.

We point out a natural way of decomposing the changes (or percentage changes) in the endogenous variables as sums of the contributions made by the change in each exogenous variable. The change in any endogenous variable is exactly equal to the sum of the contributions to this change attributed to each of the exogenous variables.

The contribution of a group of exogenous variables to the change (or percentage change) in any endogenous variable is defined to be the sum of the contributions of the individual exogenous variables in the group. If all the exogenous variables are partitioned into several groups that are mutually exclusive and exhaustive, the change (or percentage change) in any endogenous variable is just the sum of the contributions made by these groups.

We introduce, and motivate, these decompositions in the context of a published GTAP application in which 10 regions remove import tariffs and non-tariff barriers to imports. We use the methods given in this paper to report numerical values for the contributions to the welfare gains of various regions due to tariff reductions by particular regions or groups of regions in this simulation.

We describe a practical procedure for calculating the contributions of individual exogenous variables or groups of exogenous variables to the changes (or the percentage changes) in all of the endogenous variables. This procedure, which applies to a wide range of general equilibrium models, is now automated in GEMPACK in a version that will be made publicly available in the future.



Resource Details (Export Citation) GTAP Keywords
Category: GTAP Application
Status: Published
By/In: Computational Economics
Date: 2000
Version: Vol 15(3), pp. 227-249
Created: Bacou, M. (9/27/2000)
Updated: Batta, G. (1/28/2014)
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