Quantification of the trade effects of non-tariff measures provides an important input for decision making. This technical paper outlines improvements to an earlier ABARES methodology that quantifies the trade effects of non-tariff measures at a bilateral and product level.
Technical improvements to GTEM: Sticky livestock capital and resources costs for land sequestration and abatement technologies
Many CGE models often lack critical features that can significantly affect the analysis of global climate policy, particularly when it comes to the agriculture sector. Some of these include the stickiness of livestock capital and resources costs associated with abatement technologies and land-based carbon sequestration. Failure to include these features in the model can lead to underestimating the economic costs of achieving national emissions reduction targets and inaccurate estimates of the impacts on agricultural industries, economic growth, and food security. In response to this, this report presents methods for including these features in CGE models to improve analysis of the impacts of climate policies.
Agricultural price and volume indicators: concepts, data sources and methods: Concepts, data sources and methods (PDF)
This technical paper introduces new agricultural export price and volume indicators. These indicators cover a gap in the available agricultural export statistics and will provide further insights into Australian agricultural exports.
AGTAM (PDF)
ABARES Global Trade and Agriculture Model. An overview of a demonstrative modelling approach and data sources.
GTEM
Global Trade and Environment Model documentation, covering various topics.
Non-tariff measures quantification (PDF)
A proposed methodology for the quantification of non-tariff measures.
GETEC (PDF)
An integrated assessment model of climate change with forward-looking dynamics — the Global Economy, Trade, Environment and Climate (GETEC) model. The climate module described is useful for understanding how emissions are translated into temperature change. Other additions include modelling increasing extraction costs of fossil fuels, modelling learning-by-doing, modelling stylised damages of temperature changes, and introduction of cleaner power generation technologies and new aggregation rules for all energy users to stylise the adoption and evolution of carbon-free energy technology in the economic module.
ABARES world agrifood model (PDF)
The ABARES world agrifood model is a multi-product, multi-region partial equilibrium model of key demand and supply interactions between world agricultural commodities used for food, animal feed or other purposes, where price clears each world market for each agrifood commodity modelled.