Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Part I: International Market Integration -- 1: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Mediterranean Economic Integration -- The case of Italy and Algeria -- 2: Chilean Accession to the Nafta -- General equilibrium estimates -- 3: Resource Allocation Effects of the 1992 CAP Reform on the Greek Economy -- Part II: Policy Simulations with Alternative Treatments of Factor Markets -- 4: The Labour Market Effects of VAT Harmonisation in a Multicountry Age Model -- 5: Wage Curves and Capital Mobility in a General Equilibrium Model of Italy -- 6: Development and Application of an Age Model with a Variable Population -- Part III: Policies for Carbon Dioxide Abatement -- 7: Intra- and Intergenerational Effects of Global Carbon Limits -- A five-region analysis -- 8: Unilateral Taxation of International Environmental Externalities and Sectoral Exemptions -- 9: Modelling the Effects of Energy Market Distortions on the Costs of Carbon Abatement -- Computable general equilibrium and partial equilibrium assessment -- 10: Efficiency and Distributional Effects of Ecotaxes in a CGE Model for Italy -- Part IV: Competitiveness and Convergence -- 11: The Consequences of Technological Innovation on Employment in the European Union Using an Age Approach -- 12: The Effect of Deficit in a Multicountry Model with Perfect Mobility of Capital -- Part V: VAT and Income Tax Reform -- 13: German Income Tax Reforms -- Separating efficiency from redistribution -- 14: Are Destination and Origin Principles Equivalent? -- A quantitative evaluation for the European Union -- 15: Welfare Effects of VAT Rate Harmonisation in the European Union.
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"The papers in this much-needed collection employ Applied General Equilibrium methodology to address a wide variety of policy concerns within the European Union. In examining such a variety of issues with varying modelling features the contributors illustrate the flexibility of the approach, and demonstrate how Applied General Equilibrium methodology is an increasingly important tool for economic development."--Jacket.
Policy simulations in the European Union.
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Equilibrium (Economics)-- Econometric models.
International economic integration-- Econometric models.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- International-- Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- International-- General.
Economic policy-- Econometric models.
Equilibrium (Economics)-- Econometric models.
International economic integration-- Econometric models.
Europe, Economic integration, Econometric models.
European Union countries, Economic policy, Econometric models.