Specification choice and robustness in CGE trade policy analysis with imperfect competition

Economic Modelling

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1065-1099

  Willenbockel, Dirk ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computable general equilibrium models; Imperfect competition; Scale economies; Trade policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 5144234699     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2004.03.003     Document Type: Article

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