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Network of researchers

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Field	Value
name	Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP)
parent	Purdue University
established	1992
head_label	Managing Director
head	Dominique van der Mennsbrugghe
founder	Thomas Hertel
language	English
free_label	Mission
free	To provide leadership in economic policy analysis by fostering collaboration to achieve better data and research outcomes.
address	Center for Global Trade Analysis
Department of Agricultural Economics
Purdue University
403 West State Street

| name = Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) | parent = Purdue University | established = 1992 | head_label = Managing Director | head = Dominique van der Mennsbrugghe | founder = Thomas Hertel | language = English | free_label = Mission | free = To provide leadership in economic policy analysis by fostering collaboration to achieve better data and research outcomes. | address = Center for Global Trade Analysis Department of Agricultural Economics Purdue University 403 West State Street

West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2056, United States | website = gtap.agecon.purdue.edu |image_name = GTAP.jpg | footnotes =

GTAP (the Global Trade Analysis Project) is a global network of researchers (mostly from universities, international organizations, and economic and climate/resource ministries of governments) who conduct quantitative analysis of international economic policy issues, including trade policy, climate policy, and globalization linkages to inequality and employment. The consortium produces a consistent global economic database (the GTAP Data Base) which is widely used in the research community to study prospective international economic policy around these issues.

While the consortium includes a large number of international organizations, GTAP itself is coordinated by the Center for Global Trade Analysis, located at Purdue University.

GTAP consortium and data base

Founded by Thomas Hertel in 1992, the project grew out of the Australian IMPACT and SALTER modelling projects, and was heavily influenced by Alan Powell. A central element of GTAP is a large-scale database that is updated periodically by the consortium members, under coordination of the Center for Global Trade Analysis. The data are important, core structural inputs to a broad range of global economic policy models and related applications: For this reason, the consortium membership (those contributing to the database) includes prominent global governance and policy research institutions like the World Bank, European Commission, World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. and Brian O'Neill, who represent the broader scientific community. While from its inception the database was closely tied to the computable general equilibrium (CGE) research community, in recent years the database has also been at the center of greenhouse gas emissions accounting exercises, and related assessments of resource use.

Other activities

In addition to the multinational effort needed to update and expand the project database, the Center for Global Trade Analysis also offers courses on practical, model-based economic policy analysis. This includes courses on basic computational modelling and dynamic general equilibrium modelling. The standard GTAP Model, which serves as a maquete or framework model linking the database to a basic general equilibrium system, was developed with the GEMPACK suite of software but is also implemented using the GAMS suite of software. The center also organizes a large-scale annual conference on global economic policy modelling. The center also provides awards and recognition to members of the research community, including the Alan A. Powell Award and the GTAP Research Fellow awards.

Technical references

Burfisher, Mary, Introduction to Computable General Equilibrium Models, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2011, .
Corong, Erwin L. et al. (2017) "The Standard GTAP Model, Version 7." Journal of Global Economic Analysis, Vol2(1): 1–119.
Hertel, Thomas, Global Trade Analysis: Modeling and Applications (Modelling and Applications), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1999, .
Lanz, Bruno and Rutherford, Thomas F. (2016) "GTAPinGAMS: Multiregional and Small Open Economy Models." Journal of Global Economic Analysis, Vol 1 (2): 1–77.

References

"About GTAP: GTAP Consortium". Purdue University.
(2017). "Back to the Future: A 25-year Retrospective on GTAP and the Shaping of a New Agenda". Journal of Global Economic Analysis.
(2018). "Toward a consistent modeling framework to assess multi-sectoral climate impacts". Nature Communications.
(2006). "Poverty and the WTO: Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda.". World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan.
(2013). "Global Applied General Equilibrium Analysis Using the Global Trade Analysis Project Framework". Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling.
"Thomas Hertel". Purdue University.
(2013). "Introduction". Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling.
"Dominique van der Mennsbrugghe". Purdue University.
(2016). "An Overview of the GTAP 9 Data Base". Journal of Global Economic Analysis.
(November 2017). "New science of climate change impacts on agriculture implies higher social cost of carbon". Nature Communications.
(2018). "Melting ice caps and the economic impact of opening the Northern Sea Route". The Economic Journal.
(2015). "Non-tariff barriers, integration and the transatlantic economy". Economic Policy.
"Mark Horridge". Victoria University, Melbourne.
(7 March 2019). "Climate Change Expert Joins Korbel's Pardee Center". University of Denver.
Peters, G.P.. (2011). "Growth in emission transfers via international trade from 1990 to 2008". PNAS.
(2018). "Empirical estimates of the methane–income elasticity". Economics Letters.
Peters, G.P.. (2008). "From Production-based to consumption-based national emission inventories". Ecological Economics.
(2017). "Carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth: An assessment based on production and consumption emission inventories". Ecological Economics.
(2019). "Benefits of the Paris Agreement to ocean life, economies, and people". Science Advances.
(2018). "Gridded emissions and land-use data for 2005–2100 under diverse socioeconomic and climate mitigation scenarios". Nature.
"Short courses in global trade analysis". Purdue University.
(2017). "The Standard GTAP Model, Version 7". Journal of Global Economic Analysis.
(2016). "GTAPinGAMS: Multiregional and Small Open Economy Models". Journal of Global Economic Analysis.
"GTAP Network: Alan Powell Award". Purdue University.
"GTAP Network: Research Fellows". Purdue University.

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