
CPA Improves Leading Trade Model to Reflect Real-World Effects of Trade
Key Points The standard widely-used trade model, GTAP, has been wrong in its forecasts of every major U.S. trade agreement. CPA economists have modified the
CHIEF ECONOMIST
Jeff Ferry is Chief Economist at the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA). Ferry is an economist, author, and former technology executive. From 2005 to 2011, he served as a marketing executive at Infinera, a US manufacturer of optical networking systems that designs and manufactures photonic integrated circuits in Sunnyvale, California. In 2019, the CPA economics team won the Mennis Award from the National Association for Business Economics for a paper, Decoupling from China: an economic analysis of the impact on the U.S. economy of a permanent tariff on Chinese imports.
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Key Points The standard widely-used trade model, GTAP, has been wrong in its forecasts of every major U.S. trade agreement. CPA economists have modified the
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