ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANKADB ECONOMICSWORKING PAPER SERIESNO. 620September 2020ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE UNITED STATES–PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA TRADE DISPUTE USING A MULTIREGIONAL COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL Elisabetta Gentile, Gen Li, and Mahinthan Joseph Mariasingham
ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANKADB Economics Working Paper SeriesAssessing the Impact of the United States–People’s Republic of China Trade Dispute Using a Multiregional Computable General Equilibrium ModelElisabetta Gentile, Gen Li, and Mahinthan Joseph MariasinghamNo. 620 | September 2020Elisabetta Gentile (egentile@adb.org) is an economist in the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department (ERCD), Asian Development Bank (ADB). Gen Li (li.gen@nies.go.jp) is a research assistant at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan. Mahinthan Joseph Mariasingham (mmariasingham@adb.org) is a senior statistician in ERCD, ADB.We are grateful to Prof. Toshihiko Masui for his guidance and support, and Bochuan Chen for excellent research assistance. The paper benefited from conversations with Reinhard Felke, John Hancock, and David Haugh. We thank all colleagues who offered help and advice, including Abdul Abiad, Donald Jay Bertulfo, Rana Hasan, Valerie Mercer-Blackman, and Yasuyuki Sawada. We also thank seminar attendees at ADB and conference participants at the 23rd Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis.
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