Nepal is an agrarian country with more than 66% of its population directly engaged in farming, which results in the agricultural and livestock sectors to be the largest contributors towards gross domestic product (GDP). Thus, the main objective of this research is to quantify and analyze the...

As governments around the world are implementing clean electricity supply transition policies to help address climate change, there has been an increased interest in the use of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models to estimate associated economic and CO2 impacts. Researchers have used a...

This study constructs a general CGE model for value-added tax (VAT). From limited publicly available VAT data, the model is capable of estimating all VAT statistics at the detailed sectoral level, including estimates of Output VAT, Input VAT, Net VAT, and VAT Refunds to each intermediate input,...

In the absence of sustained federal leadership to address climate change, many US states and cities have implemented their own climate policies. In 2018, the State of Hawai‘i set a goal of sequestering more greenhouse gases (GHGs) annually than emitted no later than 2045. This study builds a...

We analyze the market dynamics that are caused by tariff-rate quotas, particularly the effects of quota license allocation between heterogeneous commodities at the tariff line level. The allocation is endogenously modeled with a mixed complementarity problem approach for the case of the...