Joseph Francois

DATA and Modeling Resources

DATASETS (panels, cross-sections, etc)
AND SOME COMPUTATIONAL MODEL ARCHIVES

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING SOURCES

 

This includes archived datasets from various econometric papers, as well as archived models for papers using numerical models.

Income Inequality Dataset:  This is based on Francois and Romagosa (2004), and provides a reconciled panel of gross, net, household, income and expenditure-based inequality measures.  Data are provided on spreadsheets.  Samples of the GAMS code used for parametric Lorenz curve estimation are also included.  The background paper is also included as part of the archive. 
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Finance and Development dataset:  This is based on Eschenbach, Francois, and Nitzsche (2004) and provides a panel that combines standard cross-country growth and institutional quality indicators with indicators of financial development, financial sector openness, and financial sector competition.  The database is provided in MS Access form, and also as a MS Excel spreadsheet.  The background paper is included as part of the archive. 
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Globalization and wages dataset. (Used for Francois, Grier and Nelson 2004).  This includes Baldwin and Cain’s time series of relative wage data, as well as our measures of the intermediate goods intensity of trade. 
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Mexican antidumping data (Used for Francois and Niels 2003, 2004).  -->DOWNLOAD

Trade Liberalization in the Doha Round -- global CGE model (Used for Francois, van Meijl, and van Tongeren 2005). 
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Market power in shipping and the gains from trade.  Download the Excel version of the model, or the Mathcad version. This is based on “ Trade in International Transport Services:  The Role of Competition.”  coauthored with Ian Wooton and published in Review of International Economics 2001.

China WTO Accession model (Used for Francois and Spinanger 2001, 2004).  Includes textiles and clothing effects, and also auto sector estimates.  DOWNLOAD
 
Pre- and Post- Uruguay Round tariffs – by GTAP 4 sector scheme.  DOWNLOAD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Partial and general equilibrium trade, climate change, trade and competition, and related models that can be downloaded directly from this site.  =>GO TO: COMPUTATIONAL MODEL DOWNLOAD TABLE

Computational example models

    • Excel models
    • Gams CGE models
    • GEMPACK/CGE model

Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis -- A Handbook, Cambridge University Press, 1997 and 1998. Offers model downloads, course disks, data sources, and information on the book.

Computational Trade Policy Modeling course disk image: This is the image of a CD-ROM I give out for MA and M.Phil/PhD level students. It is a *.iso CD-ROM disk image that can be used to burn CDs.  It is structured around material used in my modelling course.  Note:  download the disk image (right click or control-click and save as CourseDisk.iso (not CourseDisk.htm), don’t open or you will just see junk).  You can then mount the disk image, or burn it.

NOTE:  This disk has been revised as of April 2004, before I went on my somewhat dysfunctional sabbatical break. I am back from sabbatical.


However I have not yet had time to actually update the course disk, and it is a bit dated and stale and well past its sell-by date. I will update it when I have time to integrate new material (linking gravity-based estimates to computations models, dynamics, and model validation, to name a few issues entirely missing at the moment from the disk). This will take some time though.


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”I’m not very good at problems,” admitted Milo.

“What a shame,” sighed the Dodecahedron.  “They’re so very useful.  Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve feet high and six feet wide in two days, all you would need to build Boulder Dam is a beaver sixty-eight feet long with a fifty-one-foot tail?”

“Where would you find a beaver that big?” grumbled the Humbug as his pencil point snapped.

“I’m sure I don’t know,” he replied,” but if you did, you’d certainly know what to do with him.”

“That’s absurd,” objected Milo, whose head was spinning from all the numbers and questions. “That may be true,” he acknowledged,” but it’s completely accurate, and as long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong?  If you want sense, you’ll have to make it yourself.”

THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH

N. Juster, 1961.


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