Wisconsin National Data Consortium

Release Notes

1. We introduce the new GTAP-WiNDC module that links the database of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) and a version of the WiNDC database that is disaggregated by consumer accounts (households). The GTAP database is a global database that describes bilateral trade patterns, production, consumption and intermediate use of commodities and services. We use the current version of the GTAP database (version 10), reference year 2014.
   The code of the new GTAP-WiNDC module is in the directories gtap and gtapaggr.
   The GAMS code in the directory gtap links an aggregated version of the GTAP database with 10 economic sectors and 11 regions to the two WiNDC datasets WiNDC_cps_static_gtap_10_state.gdx and WiNDC_soi_static_gtap_10_state.gdx. These two files are generated in the WiNDC household module. If you run the GAMS file run.gms, the output data sets are stored in the directory datasets, subdiretcory gtapwindc.
   We also provide GAMS code for the canonical GTAP-WiNDC model and for a tariff quota simulations with the GTAP-WiNDC model.
   The GAMS code in the directory gtapaggr demonstrates how we created the aggregated version of the GTAP database from the full GTAPinGAMS GTAP database. Users with a valid GTAP license may use this code to create customized aggregations of the GTAP database for their particular modeling needs.
2. We updated the calibration routine in the core WiNDC buildstream. We fixed the exports in the file calibrate.gms. This update entails changes in the core WiNDC database. Note that there are no updates to the source data (windc_base.gdx). Currently our latest base year is 2017. We plan to update the source data in the next release.
3. We updated the economic sector aggregation to GTAP sectors in the household buildstream. We now offer the option to aggregate to 10 or 32 GTAP sectors, so there are two GTAP related mapping files in the subdirectory maps: gtap_10.map and gtap_32.map.
4. There are no updates in energy-environment module Bluenote.
5. The code for an updated version of GTAP10inGAMS is now available for download. See the file readme.txt for details. Please note that the code in this directory runs only on Windows.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all of our users who reported problems, made suggestions and contributed to this release. In particular we thank Erwin Corong, Alla Golub, Andrew Schreiber, and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe.

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