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Commerce Department Short Course on Economic Equilibrium Analysis with GAMS
(Tuesday, January 25, 2022)

Schedule

9:00-10:30 am Jim Markusen: What do multinationals do? The structure of multinational firms' international activities
10:30-10:45 am Break
10:45-12:00 pm Jim Markusen: Modeling multinational enterprises in GAMS
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00-2:30 pm Jim Markusen: Numerical exercises with the MNE model
2:30-2:45 pm Break
2:45-4:00 pm Tom Rutherford: Using the TASTE database in GAMS to implement partial equilibrium trade models

Materials

  1. What do multinationals do? The structure of multinational firms’ international activities (PDF)
  2. Markusen: Lecture Notes (zip)
  3. Rutherford: madison5_alternative_version.gms (zip)
  4. Rutherford: Model m3.gms and visualization with gnuplot (zip)
  5. TASTE (Tariff Analytical and Simulation Tool for Economists)
  6. Extending General Equilibrium to the Tariff Line: U.S. Dairy in the DOHA Development Agenda (PDF)
  7. Rutherford: Lecture Notes (PDF)

Recordings

  1. Tuesday morning -- first session
    There is no recording for this session.
  2. Tuesday morning -- second session
  3. Tuesday afternoon -- first session
  4. Tuesday afternoon -- second session