Modelling Economy-wide Effects of Future Automotive Assistance

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The research report, Modelling Economy-wide Effects of Future Automotive Assistance, was released on 5 June 2008.

Preliminaries (PDF - 328 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Contents, Abbreviations, Overview
Overview (PDF - 192 Kb)
1 Background and approach to the study (PDF - 190 Kb)
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Bracks Review and the Commission's study
1.3 Background to the current assistance regime
1.4 The Commission's approach to this study
2 Current assistance to the industry (PDF - 221 Kb)
2.1 Tariff assistance
2.2 Budgetary assistance
2.3 Other policies
3 Modelling the assistance scenarios (PDF - 265 Kb)
3.1 The choice of a model
3.2 Key features of the MMRF model
3.3 Implementing shocks to the model
3.4 Key outputs
4 The modelling (PDF - 221 Kb)
4.1 Main mechanisms at work
4.2 Reference case results
4.3 Results for option scenarios and sensitivity tests
5 The modelling in perspective (PDF - 225 Kb)
5.1 What do the model simulations indicate?
5.2 How robust are the model specifications and key parameters?
5.3 Accounting for 'exogenous' considerations
5.4 Summing up the economy-wide effects
A Study request (PDF - 505 Kb)
B Referee comments - summary (PDF - 151 Kb)
B.1 The model
B.2 Features of the model
B.3 Implementing shocks
C Supporting tables (PDF - 142 Kb)
D Database modifications (PDF - 192 Kb)
D.1 Updating the base year
D.2 Disaggregating the automotive industry
D.3 Incorporating ACIS
E Additional simulation results (PDF - 505 Kb)
E.1 Reference cases
Review options
Sensitivity analyses
References (PDF - 149 Kb)

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