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The SALTER model of the world economy
Salter working papers
In 1990 the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade commissioned the Industries Assistance Commission to develop a global trade model. The model was named SALTER (Sectoral Analysis of Liberalising Trade in the East Asian Region) after the distinguished Australian economist Wilfred Salter. A version of the SALTER model - the WEDGE model - was developed to analyse the Costs and Benefits of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Industry Commission Inquiry Report).
The SALTER model played an important part in the subsequent development of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model. Many of the tools that were developed for the SALTER project are critical to this day to the production of the GTAP database.
The following papers constitute the entire SALTER library, including the final model documentation (Jomini et al, 1994), several prior versions and the many utilities and inputs into building SALTER.
No 24 Jomini, P., McDougall, R., Watts, G. and Dee, P.S. 1994, The SALTER Model of the World Economy: Model Structure, Database and Parameters, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 1 McDougall, R. 1991, Linking CGE Country Models: An Example Using the OECD's Walrus Model, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 2 McDougall, R. 1991, Linking Regional Models in WALRAS, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 3 McDougall, R., Sugden, C. 1991, Implementation of the WALRAS Model of the Australian Economy, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 4 Zeitsch, J., McDougall, R., Jomini, P., Welsh, A., Hambley, J., Brown, S. and Kelly, J. 1991, SALTER: A General Equilibrium Model of the World Economy, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 5 Brown, S. 1991, NERAM: A Nominal and Effective Rates of Assistance Model for the SALTER World Trade Models, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 6 Maclaine, G. and Wear, S.L. 1990, Aggregated New Zealand Import Data by Source - Procedures Used and Data Generated, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 7 Wear, S.L. 1990, The Elasticity of Substitution Between Imports from Different Sources - Estimates for New Zealand, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 8 Hertel, T. 1991, An Independent Assessment of the SALTER General Equilibrium Model of the World Economy, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 9 Wigle, R. and Perroni, C. 1991, Suggested Revisions to the SALTER Model, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 10 Ryan, C. 1992, The SALTER Model: Construction of the European Database, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 11 Gehlar, M.J., Binkley, J.K., Hertel, T.W. 1992, Estimation of Trade Margins: An Application of the UN Bilateral Trade Data, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 12 Tormey, J. 1993, Two Small Extensions to SALTER, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 13 Tormey, J. 1992, SINTIA A Guide to Collecting Tariff Rate Data for SALTER, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 14 Gotch, M. 1993, Industry assistance data for SALTER, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 15 Hambley, J. 1993, Early Stage Processing of International Trade and Input-Output Data for SALTER, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 16 Hanslow, K. 1993, Later Stage Processing of International Trade Data for SALTER, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 17 James, M. and McDougall, R. 1993, FIT: An Input-Output Data Update Facility for SALTER, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 18 Calder, W., McDougall, R., Strzelecki, A. 1993, Procedures for Later Stage Processing of Single-region Input-Output Data for SALTER, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 19 Brown, S., Strzelecki, A. and Watts, G. 1993, Matching Input-output Data to International Trade Data and Assembling a Salter Database, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 20 Tormey, J. 1993, Creating Synthetic Single Region Input-Output Data for SALTER: Hong Kong and the Rest of the World, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 21 McDougall, R. 1993, Incorporating International Capital Mobility into SALTER, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 22 James, M. and McDougall, R. 1993, A SALTER Database Aggregation Facility, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 23 Watts, G. 1994, A SALTER database summary, Industry Commission, Canberra
No 25 Hertel, T.W. 1992, Introducing Imperfect Competition into the SALTER Model, Report to the Industry Commission, Canberra
Jomini, P., Zeitsch, J.F., McDougall, R., Welsch, A., Brown, S., Hambley, J., and Kelly, J. 1991, SALTER: A General Equilibrium Model of the World Economy, vol. 1, Model Structure, Database and Parameters, Industry Commission, Canberra
McDougall, R., Hertel, T., Zeitsch, J.F., Welsh, A., Brown, S., Jomini, P., Kelly, J. and Hambley, J. 1991, SALTER: A General Equilibrium Model of the World Economy, vol. 2, Gains from Global trade Liberalisation: An Illustrative Application of SALTER, Industry Commission, Canberra
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