Quebec’s forests represent 20% of the Canadian forest and 2% of world forests. They play a major role for habitat preservation, supplying goods and services to the population and hence contribute to the economy of this Canadian province. Climate change will have an impact of the forest through...

In this paper we develop a model of the urban economy, where the commercial sub center of a city, goes in competition with a peripheral sub center. We consider both centers to be in a spatial asymmetric duopoly, where both centers need to compete for customers and employees. Competition takes...

For oil producing countries it is important to share rationally oil revenues between current expenditure and savings. The purpose of this paper is to study what impact will have change of the oil revenues accumulation on the dynamics of macroeconomic indicators.Modeling of dynamic stochastic...

In September 2013, the EU Parliament has called for a 6% limitation of crop-based biofuels (instead of 10% initially) and proposed a 2.5% binding incorporation target for cellulosic biofuels by 2020. In spite of this stated objective, the horizon of a large-scale adoption for advanced biofuels...

In the last years, Baltic countries joined or prepare to join the European Monetary Union. Accession comes in a time, were trading share between these countries and the Eurozone are declining. From a theoretical point of view, the optimality of currency unions depends on bilateral trade between...

The aim of this work is analyzing the practical relevance, from a qualitative perspective, of a new methodology which is intended to include firm heterogeneity, as modeled by Melitz (2003), in computable general equilibrium effects. We assess to what extent the inclusion of industries with...

The purpose of the research is to unveil conditions for sustainable development by studying relationship between natural (I) and non-natural (II) wealth based on Carl Marx’ re-production scheme. For this purpose, Marx’ simple and complex re-production schemes were modified to: - disaggregate...

The purpose of the research is to unveil conditions for sustainable development by studying relationship between natural (I) and non-natural (II) wealth based on Carl Marx’ re-production scheme. General Equilibrium Model extented to Marx's Production Schema Realization results of the model...

In the article, we analyze that how the innovative activity affects to income redistribution, which have been considered for prolonged period. The effect of spending on R&D usually affects to higher income level; however, the lower income group also becomes easier to approach to high-tech...

This paper investigates the possible economic effects of free trade agreement, implying a mutual zero import tariffs in the trade between the Customs Union (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan) and the European Union. Analysis of the effects is made using CGE model.We estimate the impact of an FTA on...