An Overview of the GTAP 9 Data Base

By Angel H. Aguiar, Badri G. Narayanan, Robert McDougall. 2016

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This paper provides an overview of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Data Base and its latest release, version 9. The GTAP Data Base has been used in thousands of economy-wide analyses over the past twenty-five years. While initially focused on supporting trade policy analysis, the addition of satellite accounts pertaining to greenhouse gas emissions and land use has resulted in a surge of applications relating to climate change as well as other environmental issues. The Data Base comprises an exhaustive set of accounts measuring the value of annual flows of goods and services with regional and sectoral detail for the entire world economy. These flows include bilateral trade, transport, and protection matrices that link individual country/regional economic datasets. Version 9 disaggregates 140 regions, 57 sectors, 8 factors of production, for 3 base years (2004, 2007 and 2011). The great success enjoyed by this Data Base stems from the collaboration efforts by many parties interested in improving the quality of economic analysis of global policy issues related to trade, economic development, energy and the environment.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• China's Energy Consumption in the New Normal (2018, methodology): “In addition, global multiregional input-output tables are obtained from the version 9 of the GTAP database (Aguiar et al., 2016).”
• The Effects of Climate Change on GDP by Country and the Global Economic Gains From Complying With the Paris Climate Accord (2018, positive): “Modern CGE models are now (at least potentially) truly global with as many as 140 interactive regional economies (Aguiar et al., 2016; Corong et al., 2017; Hertel, 1997) and can be solved over a long time horizon in a recursive (e.g., Dixon & Rimmer, 2002; Ianchovichina & Walmsley, 2012) or intertem”
• Does the EU ETS cause carbon leakage in European manufacturing? (2019, neutral): “edu/databases/v9/ and Aguiar et al. (2016) for further details.”
• The GTAP Data Base: Version 10 (2019, background): “3 GTAP 9’s documentation, Aguiar, Narayanan, and McDougall (2016), provides additional information about the GTAP Data Base that is not covered in this paper.”
• Employment impacts of renewable energy policies in China: A decomposition analysis based on a CGE modeling framework (2018, background): “Since crude oil and natural gas are aggregated as one sector in China ’ s I-O table, the original sector is split according to the relevant cost shares in the GTAP 9 database [40].”