How confident can we be of CGE-based assessments of Free Trade Agreements?

Economic Modelling

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 611-635

  Hertel, Thomas ^a   Hummels, David ^a   Ivanic, Maros ^b   Keeney, Roman ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Free Trade Agreements; General equilibrium; Systematic sensitivity analysis; Trade elasticities

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047275602     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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