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An Advanced Guide to Trade Policy Analysis: The Structural Gravity Model
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An Advanced Guide to Trade Policy Analysis is a follow up to A Practical Guide to Trade Policy Analysis. The Advanced Guide provides the most recent tools for analysis of trade policy using structural gravity models. Written by experts who have contributed to the development of theoretical and empirical methods in the academic gravity literature and who have rich practical experience in the field, this publication explains how to conduct partial equilibrium estimations as well as general equilibrium analysis with structural gravity models and contains practical guidance on how to apply these tools to concrete policy questions.
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- Yotov, Y. V., Piermartini, R., Monteiro, J.-A., & Larch, M.
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- trade policy analysis, structural gravity model, general equilibrium analysis, trade policy evaluation, gravity model
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