The National CGE Workshop is an annual event that provides a forum for CGE modellers to exhibit and discuss their work. The 2015 event was held on August 10 at the Victoria University City Convention Centre, 300 Flinders Street, Melbourne. The schedule appears below.
| 8:30 | Registration & coffee | ||
| 8:50 | Welcome | ||
| Session 1 | CGE Applications in Asia | Chair: Janine Dixon | |
| 9:00 | Rod Tyers | UWA Business School | Japan's oligopolies: modelling the potential gains from third arrow reforms |
| 9:30 | Tsue-Ing Yap | Centre of Policy Studies | Policy Options in preparation for the post-hydrocarbon era of Brunei Darussalam |
| 10:00 | Deeptha Wijerathna | Griffith University | Place-Based versus Place-Neutral Policies for Promoting Regionally Balanced Economic Growth: A Sri Lankan Case using CGE based Simulation |
| 10:30 | Sang-Ho Nam | Korea Institute for Health & Social Affairs | Growth- and employment-oriented fiscal expenditures in South Korea |
| 11:00 | Morning Tea | ||
| Session 2 | Keynote lecture | Chair: James Giesecke | |
| 11:30 | Professor Warwick McKibbin | Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU | Long-term Economic Growth Projections and Factor Shares |
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| Session 3 | CGE applications in Australia | Chair: Paul Gretton | |
| 1:30 | Janine Dixon | Centre of Policy Studies | Forecasting for labour markets with a CGE model |
| 2:00 | Peter Forsyth | Monash University | A review of the use of CGE models in airport evaluation |
| 2:30 | Lindsay Fairhead | Productivity Commission | Some aspects of labour market modelling using the VUMR model |
| 3:00 | Afternoon Tea | ||
| Session 4 | Innovations in CGE modelling | Chair: Rod Tyers | |
| 3:30 | James Giesecke | Centre of Policy Studies | Simulations with a financial CGE model of the Australian economy |
| 4:00 | Liangyue Cao | Department of the Treasury | Implementing a stylised inter-temporal dynamic CGE model in GEMPACK. |
| 4:30 | Glyn Wittwer | Centre of Policy Studies | A decade and more of modelling regional Australia with TERM |
| 5:00 | close | ||
| 6:30 | Informal dinner (at participants' own expense), | Ludlow Bar & Terrace | Building 3, 6 Riverside Quay, Southbank |
The abstracts and slide shows are contained in this PDF.