International price transmission in CGE models: How to reconcile econometric evidence and endogenous model response?

Economic Modelling

Volumn 38, Issue , 2014, Pages 12-22

  Siddig, Khalid ^a,b   Grethe, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b Department of Agricultural Economics ^*  (Sudan)

Author keywords

CGE models; International trade; Parameterization; Price transmission; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891368764     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.11.038     Document Type: Article

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