Edward J. Balistreri

Duane Acklie College of Business Yeutter Institute Chair and
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
University of Nebraska
P.O. Box 880489
Lincoln, NE 68588-0489
USA

Education

• Ph.D., Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder (1995)
• B.A., Economics, Arizona State University (1989)

Curriculum Vitae

Google Scholar Profile

Recent Publications

• Balistreri, Edward J. and Maxwell Brown (2023) `Calibrating Constant Elasticity of Substitution Technologies to Bottom-up Cost Estimates,' Journal of Global Economic Analysis, 8(1), 55-76 (open access) https://jgea.org/ojs/index.php/jgea/article/view/178.
• Balistreri, Edward J., Felix Baquedano, John C. Beghin (2022) `The impact of COVID-19 and associated policy responses on global food security,' Agricultural Economics, 53, 855-869 DOI: 10.1111/agec.12749.
• Balistreri, Edward J. and David G. Tarr (2022) `Mathematics of Generalized Versions of the Melitz, Krugman, and Armington Models with Detailed Derivations,' Journal of Global Economic Analysis, 7(2), 66-139 (open access) https://jgea.org/ojs/index.php/jgea/article/view/156. Link to associated project files and GAMS code.
• He, Xi, Edward J. Balistreri, Gyu Hyun Kim and Wendong Zhang (2022) `A General Equilibrium Assessment of COVID-19’s Labor Productivity Impacts on China's Regional Economies,' Journal of Productivity Analysis, 58, 129-150 DOI: 10.1007/s11123-022-00642-3.
• Balistreri, Edward J. and David G. Tarr (2022) `Welfare gains in the Armington, Krugman and Melitz models: Comparisons grounded on gravity,' Economic Inquiry, 60(4), 1681-1703 DOI: 10.1111/ecin.13082. Link to associated project files and GAMS code.
• Shin, Sangho and Edward J. Balistreri (2022) `The other trade war: Quantifying the Korea-Japan trade dispute,' Journal of Asian Economics, 79, 101442 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2022.101442.
• Balistreri, Edward J., Petros C. Mavroidis, and Thomas J. Prusa (2021) `What if? Tinkering with the Counterfactual A Comment on US-Washing Machines (Article 22.6-US),' World Trade Review, 20(4), 421-435 DOI: 10.1017/S1474745621000276.
• Balistreri, Edward J., and Russell H. Hillberry (2021) `21st Century Trade Wars,' Chapter 9 in Peter B. Dixon, Joseph Francois, and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe (eds.) Policy Analysis and Modeling of the Global Economy: A Festschrift Celebrating Thomas Hertel, World Scientific, 279-297 DOI: 10.1142/9789811233630_0009.
• Li, Minghao, Edward J. Balistreri, and Wendong Zhang (2020) `The U.S.-China trade war: tariff data and general equilibrium analysis,' Journal of Asian Economics, 69,1-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2020.101216.
• Balistreri, Edward J. and David G. Tarr (2020) 'Comparison of deep integration in the Melitz, Krugman and Armington models: The case of The Philippines in RCEP,' Economic Modelling, 85, 255-271 DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2019.05.023.

Working Papers

• "Quantifying Disruptive Trade Policies " with Christoph Böhringer and Thomas F. Rutherford (August 2024). (Previous version: CESifo working paper, no.7382 November 2018, based on GTAP 10 data).
• "Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement: Potential Gains" with Zoryana Olekseyuk (February 2024).
• "A GAMS/MPSGE implementation of the PET model" with Matthias Weitzel, Brian C O'Neill, and Xiaolin Ren (Sept. 2019).

Project Links

• Structural Sensitivity: documentation.
• WiNDC: Wisconsin National Data Consortium, Open-Source Datasets for Economic Analysis.
• Commercial Policy Analysis using GAMS: lectures and illustrative GAMS examples.
• Global food security and COVID: working paper and GAMS code.
• GTAP9inGAMS: Lanz and Rutherford (2016)
        GTAP9inGAMS code
        GTAP9 data file (put this in the "gtap9ingams\gtapdata\." directory).
• CGE handbook chapter: model development and GAMS code.
• Solving heterogeneous-firms trade models
• Estibration
• A few toy models illustrating calibration of the Ramsey growth model in GAMS/MPSGE
• A model illustrating the introduction of carbon pricing in GAMS/MPSGE
• CARD: Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.