Economic models for policy making : principles and designs revisited / S.I. Cohen
- Bib ID:
- 6188745
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cohen, S. I
- Description:
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- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013
- xxvii, 392 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780415509046
- 0415509041
- 9780203097014
- 0203097017
- Series:
- Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 161. 1359-7914
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction
- 1.Focus on economic models for exploring policies
- 2.Outline: method and content
- 3.Economy-wide policy models
- 4.Partial models
- 5.Concluding remarks
- 2.Some essentials in economy-wide policy models
- 1.Introduction
- 2.CEM models: focus on market clearance via quantities
- 3.CGE models: focus on market clearance via prices
- 4.SAM models: relationship to the CEM and CGE models
- 5.Review table and concluding remarks
- 3.Socio-political regimes and economic development: exploratory models on agrarian reform in India and Chile
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Main features of the model
- 3.The modelling framework
- 4.Selected results from application to India
- 5.Application to Chile
- 6.Concluding remarks
- 4.Social economic development goals in economy-wide policy models: an application to Korea
- 1.Background
- 2.A unifying approach towards social economic development goals
- 3.Specification of the model
- Contents note continued: 4.Application
- 5.Analytical versus policy uses: breakdown of policy making
- 6.Concluding remarks
- 5.Growth and distribution in SAM models: various applications
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Tabulation and construction of the social accounting matrix
- 3.The SAM as an economy-wide model
- 4.Output and income SAM multipliers: results for ten countries
- 5.Decomposition of SAM multipliers into transfer, open-, and closed-loop effects
- 6.Identification of gainers and losers in SAM multipliers
- 7.Strategic choices for growth with redistribution
- 8.Discussion of scope and limitations
- 6.Simplified statics and dynamics in the CGE model: parameterisation and simulations for Indonesia
- 1.Background
- 2.The static CGE model
- 3.Parameterisation of the CGE model
- 4.Static policy simulations
- 5.The dynamic model
- 6.Dynamic policy simulations
- 7.Concluding remarks
- Contents note continued: 7.Growth with redistribution through liberalisation with restructuring: a CGE policy model of Nepal
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Key features
- 3.Model specification
- 4.Application and policy simulations
- 5.The dynamic model with a restructured economy
- 6.Concluding remarks
- 8.Sustained development of land resources: a policy model for Sudan
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The model
- 3.Estimation and baseline forecasts
- 4.Policy simulations: benefits and costs
- 5.Concluding remarks
- 9.Simulation results of SAM models for transiting economies: Russia falls and China rises
- 1.Comparative analysis of economic systems
- 2.Salient differences in economic performance: Russia and China
- 3.The SAMS of Russia and China
- 4.SAM multipliers in Russia and China
- 5.Gainers and losers in Russia and China
- 6.Summary and conclusions
- 10.Transiting from fixed-to flexible-price regimes: SAM-CGE models of Poland and Hungary
- 1.Introduction
- Contents note continued: 2.The fixed-price SAM model
- 3.The flexible-price CGE model
- 4.Results of applied policy simulations to Poland
- 5.Results of the simulations for Hungary
- 6.Concluding remarks
- 11.Public spending multipliers in extended SAM models for a developed economy
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Multiplier analysis in a first SAM for the Netherlands
- 3.Changes in SAM multiplier results over ten years
- 4.Extension: incorporation of regional subdivisions in the SAM model
- 5.Extension: urbanisation levels
- 6.Concluding remarks
- 12.Fiscal policy simulations in adapted CGE models: the Netherlands
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The basic model
- 3.The elaborate CGE model
- 4.Structuralist CGE model
- 5.Concluding remarks
- 13.Normed planning of human resource development: a roadmap model for Ethiopia
- 1.Background
- 2.The targeted select group of countries
- 3.Long-range targeting model for HRD
- 4.Roadmap results and transition paths to destinations
- Contents note continued: 5.Additional refinements
- 6.Matching of the labour market in the short and medium terms
- 7.The roadmap as part of a sustained development trajectory: anticipated economy-wide imbalances
- 8.Summary and conclusions
- 14.Labour market imbalances and adjustments: forecast model with RAS component
- 1.Background
- 2.Aggregate demand and supply at the sector level
- 3.Demand and supply by occupation and education: forecast model
- 4.Labour market adjustment: RAS iterations
- 5.Applications
- 6.Earnings imbalances: human capital versus job competition
- 7.Application
- 8.Concluding remarks
- 15.Privatisation decisions during transition: a CBA model applied to Poland
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Time horizon and notations used in the model
- 3.Transaction values for foreign buyer and seller government
- 4.Expected sales and profits
- 5.Costs: direct, associated, and replacement investment costs
- 6.Impact on government revenue
- Contents note continued: 7.Empirical results
- 8.Concluding remarks
- 16.Economic policy solutions to social queuing problems: a random sampling model
- 1.Background
- 2.Quality adjusted life years (QALY)
- 3.Linking QALY to earnings
- 4.The model
- 5.Quantification
- 6.Findings and discussion
- 7.Additional random sampling and policy simulations
- 8.Concluding remarks
- 17.Modelling convergence in economic growth between rich and poor countries
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The convergence hypothesis: supply-side theory and evidence
- 3.The convergence hypothesis: demand-side theory and evidence
- 4.Empirical results
- 5.Demonstration
- 6.More convergence through transfer mechanisms
- 18.Modelling of distinctly behaving economic systems: theory and applications
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Behavioural types and behavioural settings
- 3.Prototypes of dominant behaviours in economic systems
- 4.The start and the long-range development of economic systems
- Contents note continued: 5.Empirical validation
- 6.On the future outlook for economic systems
- 7.Concluding remarks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-388) and index.
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