Edward J. Balistreri

Education

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

Recent Publications

Balistreri, Edward J., Suraiya Binte Ali, and Christine McDaniel (2026) `Tariff: the most beautiful word in the dictionary?' Review of International Economics, (open access), Early View, 1-25, DOI: 10.1111/roie.70043. Link to associated project files including replication package.
Balistreri, Edward J. (2025) `The Trump Administration's Reciprocal Duties,' World Trade Review, (open access), 24(4) 438-445, DOI: 10.1017/S1474745625101043.
Balistreri, Edward J. and Zoryana Olekseyuk (2025) `Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement: Potential Gains,' The World Economy, (open access), 48(7), 1496-1519 DOI: 10.1111/twec.13705.
Balistreri, Edward J., Christoph Böhringer, and Thomas F. Rutherford (2025) `Quantifying Disruptive Trade Policies,' Journal of Global Economic Analysis, 10(1), 1-49 https://jgea.org/ojs/index.php/jgea/article/view/280.
Balistreri, Edward J., Christine McDaniel (2024) `Waging a Global Trade War Alone: The Cost of Blanket Tariffs on Friend and Foe,' Yeutter Institute International Trade Policy Review, DOI: 10.32873/10.32873/unl.dc.yiitpr.13.
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 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.

Working Papers

"A GAMS/MPSGE implementation of the PET model" with Matthias Weitzel, Brian C O'Neill, and Xiaolin Ren (Sept. 2019).

Project Links

Beautiful tariff project files.

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.

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