Applied Trade Policy Modeling in 16 Countries Insights and Impacts from World Bank CGE Based Projects

The author has virtually incomparable experience in both providing trade policy advice to more than 25 countries on behalf of the World Bank and also publishing quality journal articles in most of those cases. In this volume, he focuses on World Bank projects he has led based on computable general equilibrium models of international trade policy. He selects 18 of his articles from work in 16 countries. The papers show an unusual combination of policy relevance, advice and impact, with academic rigor and international trade theory insights. The papers in this volume have appeared in many of the economics profession's more prestigious journals, including the Journal of International Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of International Economics and the World Bank Economic Review. In this book, the author elaborates on the journal articles by discussing some of the policy contexts for the requests for the work from developing and transition countries to the World Bank, the key trade theory or policy insights, policy recommendations and conclusions and the policy impacts. Book jacket.