The National CGE Workshop is an annual event that provides a forum for CGE modellers to exhibit and discuss their work. The 2016 event was held on August 8 at Old Parliament House, Canberra. The presentations and program appear below.
The abstracts and slide shows are contained in this PDF.
| 8:00 | Registration & coffee | ||
| 8:30 | Welcome and introduction | ||
| Keynote Speaker | |||
| 8:45 | Mark Cully | Department of Industry, Innovation & Science | Modelling as ex ante policy evaluation |
| Session 1 | Chair: Rod Tyers | ||
| 9:30 | Rob Waschik | Centre of Policy Studies, VU | Linking CGE and specialist models: Deriving the implications of highway policy using USAGE-Hwy |
| 10:00 | Tim Murray | Productivity Commission | Integrating a Partial Equilibrium model within a CGE framework (as a Mixed Complementarity Problem) |
| 10:30 | Morning Tea | ||
| Session 2 | Chair: Philip Adams | ||
| 11:00 | Cedric Hodges | Deloitte Access Economics | Are we there yet? Adjustment paths in response to Tariff shocks: a CGE Analysis. |
| 11:30 | Bruce Layman | Economic Regulation Authority of Western Australia | CGE Modelling in Python: an application to electricity market trading-interval dispatch |
| 12:00 | Peter Dixon | Centre of Policy Studies, VU | DSGE modelling in GEMPACK |
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| Session 3 | Chair: Chair Guy Jakeman | ||
| 13:30 | Maureen Rimmer | Centre of Policy Studies, VU | Immigration reform scenarios for U.S. agriculture |
| 14:00 | Rod Tyers | UWA | Contractions in Chinese fertility and savings: long run domestic and global implications |
| 14:30 | Paul Gretton | Crawford School, ANU | Modelling the potential impacts of economic reform in a partnership between Australia and China |
| 15:00 | Afternoon tea | ||
| Session 4 | Chair: Paul Gretton | ||
| 15:30 | Xiao-guang Zhang | Productivity Commission | Solving a partial equilibrium model in a CGE framework: the case of a BMS model |
| 16:00 | Matt Clark | Synergies Economic Consulting | Economic benefits from reforms to management of the East Coast Trawl Fishery |
| 16:30 | Janine Dixon | Centre of Policy Studies, VU | The implications of a cut to company tax in Australia |
| 5:00 | close | ||
Workshop dinner, 6.00pm, Boffins Restaurant, University House, ANU.