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Modelling the Australian government's buyback scheme with a dynamic multi-regional CGE model

Dixon, Peter B.; Rimmer, Maureen T.; Wittwer, Glyn - Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), … - 2009

the volume of irrigation water traded between regions. The application detailed here is to the Commonwealth government … water rights by raising the price of irrigation water. The scheme may provide a net benefit to irrigation regions while … detail adapted to include regional water accounts. It focuses on the effects of inter-regional water trading. Factors of …

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The Theory of Tariff Rate Quotas: An Application to the U.S. Sugar program using MONASH-USA

Winston, Ashley - Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), … - 2005

MONASH-USA (also known as USAGE-ITC) is a detailed dynamic general equilibrium model of the U.S. developed by the Centre of Policy Studies in collaboration with the U.S. International Trade Commission. This paper reports on the theoretical developments completed for a project intended to (a) add...

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The Long-Run Effects of Structural Change and the Treatment of International Capital Accumulation, Mobility and Ownership

Verikios, George; Hanslow, Kevin - Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), … - 2009

Taking a commonly-used and commonly-available trade policy model as our starting point, we examine the long-run effects of large-scale structural change with and without international capital accumulation, mobility and ownership. We demonstrate the relative merits and limitations of different...

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The Government's Tax Package: Further Analysis based on the MONASH Model

Dixon, Peter B.; Rimmer, Maureen T. - Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), … - 1999

This report builds on an earlier paper discussed by Peter Dixon with the Senate Select Committee on December 18, 1998 which describes a single simulation, with the MONASH model, of the effects of the tax package. A revised version of this simulation is presented here as the central case ;...

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Long-run Effects on China of APEC Trade Liberalisation

Adams, Philip D.; Horridge, Mark; Parmenter, Brian; … - Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), … - 1998

Plans for APEC trade liberalisation include the elimination of all tariffs between member states. In this paper we use two computable general equilibrium models to examine the effects of these plans, focussing on China. Our modelling shows that liberalisation increases China's capital stock and...

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Accelerated water savings and demand growth for farm outputs: impacts on the economy of the southern Murray-Darling Basin

Wittwer, Glyn - Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), … - 2012

It is possible that water efficiency in irrigation agriculture may improve substantially over the next decade or two …. At the same time, worsening agricultural land and water scarcities worldwide may not be matched by agricultural …, to examine the impacts of both fast water efficiency gains and strong export demand growth over time. Water efficiency …

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Water Pricing and investment in Melbourne: General Equilibrium Analysis with Uncertain Stream Flow

Horridge, J. Mark; Dixon, Peter B.; Rimmer, Maureen T. - Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), … - 1993

water authority in its pricing and investment decisions. The model includes gestation periods in the creation of dams, main … in peak and non-peak times. Its general equilibrium framework is convenient for handling links between the water … demand. Using Monte Carlo techniques we assess the risks of water shortages associated with the investment and pricing …

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The Effects of Domestic Rice Market Interventions Outside Business-As-Usual Conditions For Imported Rice Prices

Mariano, M.J.; Giesecke, J.A.; Tran, N.H. - Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), … - 2014

The Philippine government intervenes in the domestic rice market through the imposition of import tariffs and the provision of producer and consumer subsidies. While policy makers are aware that these programs come with allocative efficiency costs, they justify the programs on the grounds that...

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How would global trade liberalization affect rural and regional incomes in Australia?

Anderson, Kym; Giesecke, James; Valenzuela, Ernesto - Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), … - 2008

For decades rural Australia has been discriminated against by industrial policies at home and agricultural protectionism abroad. While agricultural export taxation in poor countries had the opposite impact, recent reforms there mean that that offsetting effect on Australia has diminished. There...

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The regional economic consequences of Less Favoured Area support: a spatial general equilibrium analysis of the Polish LFA program

Giesecke, James; Horridge, Mark; Zawalinska, Katarzyna - Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), … - 2010

On accession to the EU, Poland, one of the most agricultural countries in the region, became eligible for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which it perceived as a chance to develop its rural economy. However, in constructing its 2007-2013 Rural Development Programme, Poland directed the...

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