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GTAP wishes to acknowledge the important contributions of
David Laborde.
David Laborde is an Economist at IFPRI, in Washington, DC. Prior to this he was on the staff of CEPII in Paris. Over the past 5 years, he has made critical contributions to the quantitative analysis of the Doha Development Agenda, as well as numerous bilateral trade agreements. David's recently completed PhD dissertation covers a range of topics in the political economy of international trade agreements.
David Laborde has been closely involved with the development and use of the MAcMap data base on protection which has been a central feature of the GTAP 6 and 7 Data Bases. Together with Mark Horridge, he also created the TASTE software to facilitate analysis of trade agreements, starting from the HS-6 level.
In June 2005 David was recognized as a GTAP Research Fellow for his outstanding contribution to the analysis of the Doha Development Agenda using the MAcMap data and for instrumental contribution to GTAP border protection dataset, and innovative CGE modeling work.
Thank you, David, for your many important contributions to GTAP!
For the Tenth Anniversary Conference, the organizers took the opportunity to
revisit the foundations of global economic analysis, reflecting on the past successes of the GTAP Network and deliberating on
future issues related to global economic analysis. The Center joined together with the
Journal of Economic Integration to publish a special edition of the
journal for the conference. The top papers submitted to the conference, as selected by the reviewers and the program committee,
were invited to publish in this special edition of the journal, along with a commissioned paper by Alan A. Powell, tracing the
history of GTAP. The aim was to publish the best papers under the four key sub-themes: Future directions, International Trade,
International Development, and the Environment.
The Center would like to recognize the efforts of Terrie Walmsley,
Thomas Hertel and Jong
Eun Lee for their work in coordinating this special edition of the journal.
The GTAP Data Base is a fully documented, publicly available global data base which
contains complete bilateral trade information, transport and protection linkages among regions for all GTAP commodities. The GTAP
7 Data Base has a 2004 reference year and includes 57 sectors and
113 regions.
TASTE comes with a huge database of bilateral trade flows and of applied and bound tariff rates distinguishing around 200
countries and 5000 HS6 goods. The trade flows are consistent with the GTAP 7 Data Base.
TASTE has been jointly developed by Mark Horridge from the Centre of Policy Studies and David Laborde from IFPRI (formerly with
CEPII) with funding from the US International Trade Commission, the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, and the Center for
Global Trade Analysis.
TASTE may be downloaded for free from the GTAP website or shipped via FedEx. For further details, please review the
TASTE page.
The aim of the SplitCom project is to develop a set of programs to facilitate the addition of sectors to a standard GTAP Data
Base. For example, one might wish to split GTAP's mvh (motor vehicles and parts) sector into three: "Cars", "OtherMV" and
"MVparts".
Mark Horridge completed initial versions of these programs at end of 2005. The development of SplitCom has been funded by Nathan
Associates (John Beyer), ABARE (Hom Pant), and the Productivity Commission (Patrick Jomini).
For the 
