@article{Dixon:332661,
      recid = {332661},
      author = {Dixon, Peter and Rimmer, Maureen and Chadha, Rajesh and  Pratap, Devender and Tandon, Anjali},
      title = {A CGE model for India with an application on the effects  of eliminating agricultural subsidies},
      address = {2015},
      year = {2015},
      note = {Presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Melbourne, Australia},
      abstract = {There are growing concerns about inefficiencies in Indian  agriculture arising mainly due to agricultural subsidies on  production and consumption. The subsidy regime results in  lowering of productivity, crowding out of public investment  and increasing environmental concerns. The aim of this  paper is to produce a quantitative analysis of the  economy-wide effects in India of the elimination of  agricultural subsidies. We show the effects on industry and  macro variables and also trace out the effects on  greenhouse-gas emissions from Indian agriculture.    The  analysis in this paper is based on a dynamic computable  general equilibrium (CGE) model in the Centre of Policy  Studies (CoPS) modelling tradition.  The paper describes  the following tasks:   (a) Creation with 2007-08 data of a  130 sector dynamic CGE model of India in GEMPACK code. The  input-output transactions table 2007-08 for 130 sectors has  been sourced from the Central Statistical Office of the  Government of India.  (b) Update from 2007-08 to 2012-13.   The update was done by historical simulation.  In this  simulation, shocks are applied to a range of observable  variables to move them from their 2007-8 values to their  2012-13 values.  The model then estimates 2012-13 values  for other (unobserved) variables that are consistent with  the shocked variables.  For example, if we impose the  2012-13 value for overall consumption of food products, the  model estimates values for consumption of food products at  the more disaggregated level required for the 130 sector  model.  The result of the historical simulation is to  produce a 2012-13 database for the model which is not  contradictable by readily available statistics.    (c)  Revision of the specification of agriculture in the CGE  model.  The main requirement is disaggregation.  This  process involves the splitting of Wheat into Wheat North  and Wheat Other.  The split is important for subsidy  analysis because the subsidy rates applying to wheat  production in...},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/332661},
}