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"Incorporating Biofuels in GTAP-SIMPLE-G" Authors: Srikanth, Kavitha and Erwin Corong Abstract Sourcing feedstock to meet increasing biofuel demand depends on spatially heterogeneous factors such as agro-ecological conditions and regional cost structures. As demand for biofuel expands, these differences play a central role in determining where crops are grown, how land is reallocated, and the extent of both direct and indirect land-use change. However, Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models typically treat natural resource endowments as fixed, limiting their ability to capture supply responses to these spatial dynamics. Augmenting CGE models with spatially explicit frameworks that can endogenously capture a wider range of economic responses can therefore provide more nuanced insights. A combined modeling approach is particularly well-suited to studying biofuels, as it allows for capturing spillovers across space (land-use), sectors (energy and livestock markets), and through geographical reallocation via international trade. This paper employs and extends the GTAP-SIMPLE-G framework (Wang, 2024), which links the GTAP model with SIMPLE-G, a gridded partial equilibrium model of the agricultural sector. We explicitly incorporate biofuel sectors and spatially heterogeneous feedstock linkages within this integrated framework to enable a more detailed analysis of the market-mediated impacts of biofuel policies. |
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- Environmental policies - Land use - Renewable energy - GTAP Data Base and extensions - Economic geography - Model extension/development - Multi-scale and geospatial modeling - Partial and general equilibrium models - North America |
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