Validation in computable general equilibrium modeling

Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 1271-1330

  Dixon, Peter B ^a   Rimmer, Maureen T ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

CGE back of the envelope; CGE baseline; CGE forecasting performance; CGE test simulations; Validating CGE models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879295186     PISSN: 22116885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59568-3.00019-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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