@article{Decreux:7206,
      recid = {7206},
      author = {Decreux, Yvan and Ramos, Maria Priscila},
      title = {How does tariff-rate quota modelling affect CGE results?  An application for MIRAGE},
      address = {2007},
      number = {1423-2016-117716},
      series = {TRADEAG Working Papers},
      pages = {37},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {Since the Uruguay Round Agricultural Agreement (URAA)  entered into force in 1994, tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) have  become the most widely used trade policy instrument to  improve agricultural market access while at the same time  controlling import volumes. Until now, the MIRAGE CGE model  only takes into account the exogenous quota rents  (MAcMap-HS6 database) allocated entirely to exporters.  Unfortunately, this methodology does not authorise any  regime when trade policy changes (e.g. a quota-volume  increase for very sensitive agricultural products or a  tariff reduction). In order to improve the treatment of  TRQs in MIRAGE we model them as bilateral TRQs at the HS6  level using MAcMapHS6-v2 database. Assuming a simple  scenario of bilateral trade agreement between the European  Union and Mercosur, we test the previous TRQ modeling and  we compare its results to the present version of MIRAGE  (aggregation biases and TRQ modeling). The macroeconomic  and trade results give us an idea of the biases introduced  by the negligence of TRQ modeling.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/7206},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.7206},
}