Marinos E. Tsigas

General equilibrium analysis of supply control in US agriculture (1991)

HERTEL, THOMAS W., TSIGAS, MARINOS E.

This paper provides a general equilibrium analysis of several alternative supply control measures currently employed (or proposed) for US agriculture. Results confirm that acreage controls generate...

Estimates of Systematic Reporting Biases in Trade Statistics.

Tsigas, Marinos E, Hertel, Thomas W, Binkley, James K

Trade statistics are thought of as unreliable because often there are at least two quite different figures for the same transaction. This paper reports on a statistical procedure for quantifying the...

Macro, industry and state effects in the U.S. of removing major tariffs and quotas

Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer, Marinos E. Tsigas

We use a 500-industry CGE model of the U.S. to simulate the macro, industry and state effects of removing major U.S. tariffs and quotas. We find that this would generate a welfare gain of 0.07 per...

Regionalising results from a detailed CGE model: Macro, industry and state effects in the U.S. of removing major tariffs and quotas

Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer, Marinos E. Tsigas

We describe a tops-down method for regionalising results from a detailed national CGE model. Using a 500-industry U.S. model, we generate macro and industry effects of removing major U.S. import...

General Equilibrium Analysis of Supply Control in U.S. Agriculture.

Hertel, Thomas W, Tsigas, Marinos E

This paper provides a general equilibrium analysis of several alternative supply control measures currently employed (or proposed) for U.S. agriculture. Results confirm that acreage controls generate...

Identifying Agricultural Research and Development Investment Opportunities in Sub-Sahara Africa; A Global, Economy-Wide Analysis

Ehui, Simeon, Tsigas, Marinos E.

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the most important development challenge of the 21st century. Poverty is higher in most African countries than elsewhere in the developing world. According to the recently...

TESTING DYNAMIC MODELS OF THE FARM FIRM

Tsigas, Marinos E., Hertel, Thomas W.

In this paper two models of dynamic firm behavior are fitted to a data set developed from business records of Indiana dairy farms. The parametric restrictions implied by a cost-of-adjustment model...