Strengthening the Implementation of the National Development Strategy

Economic Modeling for Policy Support

Sponsored by Solomon Islands Ministry of Finance and Treasury (MOFT), ADB, and the University of California - Berkeley
12-15 December 2016

Instructors: David Roland-Holst and Samuel Evans, UC Berkeley

Readings

SAM Readings

Pyatt, Graham and JeffreyRound (1979) “Accounting and Fixed Price Multipliers in a Social Accounting Matrix Framework,” The Economic Journal, Vol. 89, No. 356. (Dec., 1979), pp. 850-873.

Roland-Holst, David, and Ferran Sancho (1995) "Modeling Prices in a SAM Structure," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 77, No. 2, 361-371.

Round, Jeffery I. (1985) “Decomposing Multipliers for Economic Systems Involving Regional and World Trade,” The Economic Journal, Vol. 95, No. 378. (Jun.), pp. 383-399.

Michael Begg, Burmaa Chadraaval, Ragchaasuren Galindev, Esmedekh Lkhanaajav, and Erdenesan Eldev-Ochir(2012) “Sam for Mongolia - 2007,” GTAP 8 documentation, Purdue University.

CGE Readings

Roland-Holst, David, and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe (2009). “General Equilibrium Techniques for Policy Modeling,” Processed, in Chinese.

Roland-Holst, David, Enkhbayar Shagdar, and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe (2013). "A Simple 2-sector CGE Model for Mongolia with Excel Implementation," Processed.

Devarajan, Shantayanan, Delfin S. Go Jeffrey D. Lewis, Sherman Robinson, Pekka Sinko (1994). “Simple General Equilibrium Modeling,” in J.F. Francois and K.A. Reinert (eds.), Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

McCarl, Bruce A. (2000) “Course Materials for GAMS: Using GAMSIDE,” Processed.