Welcome to the MIRAGE Wiki

MIRAGE is a multi-sector, multi-country Computable General Equilibrium model initially devoted to trade policy analysis and more recently applied to long term growth and environmental issues. It has been developed since 2001 by the CEPII. In 2007 the CEPII decided to create a consortium of institutions aiming at “fostering technical discussions around MIRAGE, extending its dissemination and maintaining its consistency and transparency”: the MIRAGE consortium.

Consortium’s membership includes CEPII and parties linked to it through 3-year bilateral conventions: IFPRI, ITC, UNECA, DG Enterprise and DG Trade at the European Commission… A Scientific Advisory Board (MIRAGE SAB) validates the new developments of the model.

On behalf of MIRAGE consortium, MIRAGE wiki is designed to provide up-to-date information on the model concerning its structure and its programmation features and aims to be a gateway for the dissemination of its policy applications. All members of MIRAGE Consortium are invited to contribute to this website.

For any information on the MIRAGE model or the MIRAGE Consortium, please contact MIRAGE information.

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If some useful information was missing or you encounter some bug, please contact the Webmaster by e-mail. The content of MIRAGE wiki will be enhanced accordingly.

See full Development History for a complete overview.

• MIRAGE team at CEPII
• MIRAGE team at IFPRI
• MIRAGE consortium

The documentation is organized as follows:

• Structure overview
• Final demand
• The supply side
• Trade
• Imperfect competition
• Capital and investment dynamics
• Transport sector
• Macroeconomic closure
• Baseline
• Energy and GHG emissions

Before entering into the detail, the first entry can be:

• What is MIRAGE made of

Below is a step-by-step guide on how to conduct a simulation from start to finish:

1. Using GTAP aggregation (AggreGAMS) with MIRAGE-e
2. Other (optional) data preparation
3. How to parameterize MIRAGE-e
4. Running the baseline exercise
5. Running a simulation with GAMS
6. Managing results

MIRAGE-e, developed at CEPII since 2010, takes the core features of the MIRAGE model and put emphasis on longer term issues:

• Energy and CO2 emissions (1.1)
• Long-term Baseline (1.1) using output from the open source MaGE model
• Regular updates following the GTAP database

The documentation is organized as follows:

1. Structure overview (1.1)
2. Final demand (1.1)
3. The supply side (1.1)
4. Trade (1.1)
5. Imperfect competition (1.1)
6. Capital and investment dynamics (1.1)
7. Transport sector (1.1)
8. Macroeconomic closure (1.1)
9. Baseline (1.1)
10. Energy and CO2 emissions (1.1)

Users may refer to the following pages to use MIRAGE-e:

1. What is MIRAGE made of (1.1)
2. Using GTAP aggregation (AggreGAMS) with MIRAGE-e
3. Running a simulation with GAMS
4. Managing results

1. Structure overview (Outdated)
2. The demand side (Outdated)
3. The supply side (Outdated)
4. Capital and investment dynamics (Outdated)
5. Labour market (Outdated)
6. Agriculture market specific features (Outdated)
7. Transport sector (Outdated)
8. Macroeconomic closure (Outdated)
9. Dynamics and baseline (Outdated)
10. Imperfect competition (Outdated)

1. Technical requirements (Outdated)
2. What is MIRAGE made of (Outdated)
3. Using GTAP aggregation with MIRAGE (Outdated)
4. Running a simulation with GAMS (Outdated)
5. Managing results (Outdated)
6. Using a GSE Interface (Outdated)

• Fontagné, L., Fouré, J. and Ramos, M.-P. (2013), MIRAGE-e: A General Equilibrium Long-term Path of the World Economy, CEPII Working Paper 2013- 39 , December 2013 , CEPII.

• Bchir, M. H., Y. Decreux, J.-L. Guérin and S. Jean (2002), MIRAGE, a Computable General Equilibrium Model for Trade Policy Analysis, CEPII Working Paper 2002-17 , December 2002 , CEPII.

• Decreux, Y. and H. Valin (2007), MIRAGE, Updated Version of the Model for Trade Policy Analysis: Focus on Agriculture and Dynamics, CEPII Working Paper 2007-15, October 2002, CEPII.

• Bellora, C. and Fontagné, L. (2019), Shooting oneself in the foot? US trade policy coping with global value chains, Lettre du CEPII n°398, April.

• Bellora, C. and Fouré, J. (2017), Retrait des États-Unis de l’Accord de Paris : le relais encourageant des initiatives locales, Lettre du CEPII n°380, September.

• Fontagné, L., Fouré, J. and Keck, A. (2017), Simulating world trade in the decades ahead: driving forces and policy implications, The World Economy, vol. 40(1), p. 36-55, January.

• Disdier, A.-C., Emlinger, C. and Fouré, J. (2016) Interdependencies between Atlantic and Pcific agreements: Evidence from agri-food sectors, Economic Modelling, vol. 55(1), p. 241-253, June.

• Fouré, J., Guimbard, H. and Monjon, S. (2016) Border carbon adjustment and trade retaliation: What would be the cost for European Union?, Energy Economics, vol. 54(1), p. 349-362, February.

• Antoine Bouët, David Laborde, 2010. Why is the Doha Development Agenda Failing? And What Can Be Done? A Computable General Equilibrium–Game Theoretical Approach, The World Economy, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 33(11), pages 1486-1516, November. http://hdl.handle.net/10.1111/j.1467-9701.2010.01302.x

• Antoine Bouët, David Laborde, 2010. Assessing the potential cost of a failed Doha Round World Trade Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 9(02), pages 319-351, April.http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1474745609990267

• Antoine Bouet, Simon Mevel, David Orden (2007), More or Less Ambition in the Doha Round: Winners and Losers from Trade Liberalisation with a Development Perspective, The World Economy 30, 1253-1280 http://10.1111/j.1467-9701.2007.01044.x

• Antoine Bouët, Jean-Christophe Bureau, Yvan Decreux, Sébastien Jean (2005), Multilateral Agricultural Trade Liberalisation: The Contrasting Fortunes of Developing Countries in the Doha Round, The World Economy 28(9), 1329–1354 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9701.2005.00736.x

A Mendeley Group gathers the list of MIRAGE related publications.

See also All applications