This paper focuses on policy interventions for improving irrigation water allocation decisions by including both macro and micro considerations in a unified analytical CGE framework. The approach is demonstrated, using the case of Morocco, by analyzing selected policy top-down and bottom-up)...

Adopting a two-sector overlapping generations model, this paper studies the influence of asymmetric technology absorption and producers' lobbying on the path of technological change. The underlying assumption of the paper is that, in its formulation of industrial policy, the government is open...

Introduction: Orientation and Focus -- The Preliminaries -- The Two Sector Ramsey Model -- The Three-Sector Ramsey Model -- Extensions to the Three-Sector Model -- The Extended Three-Sector Model -- A Three-Sector #x2013; Two-Country World -- Data Issues and the Social Accounting Matrix -- Solution...

This dissertation extends the Grossman-Helpman models of endogenous trade policy formation to incorporate local and global production and consumption externalities, and to allow governments to choose domestic production or consumption policies together with trade interventions. The models...