Auto-GTAP

Auto-GTAP combines all steps of running a GTAP-based research project into a single automated framework.

Why use Auto-GTAP?

In principle, a GTAP simulation can be run with a single command. However, GTAP-based research projects usually contain more than just the model simulation. A project may also need to build a database, change aggregations, modify parameters, calculate shocks, or run multiple simulations, all the while shuffle around various files at each stage. While a single model simulation is already automated, these other task are not.

Auto-GTAP combines all these tasks into a single automated framework. By reducing the amount of manual orchestration required to run a GTAP project, Auto-GTAP will increase the speed and replicability of your analysis.

Getting started

Prerequisites

Mandatory

Python 3.6 (other versions untested)
Pyyaml 4.2b4 (other versions untested)

Additional requirements for GTAP-E Validation advanced example

GEMPACK 14.0 (other versions untested, purchase information)

Additional requirements for Productivity Increase advanced example

GEMPACK 14.0 (other versions untested, purchase information)
GTAP Data File v10_2014 (purchase information)

Clone the repository

cd your_project_directory
git clone https://github.com/andre-barbe/Auto-GTAP.git

Create a Python virtual environment

python -m venv venv

Activate the virtual environment

./venv/Scripts/activate

Running Auto-GTAP

Script path: Main.py
Source root: src
Working directory (depends on example): examples\productivity-increase-simple

(Optional) For productivity increase advanced example

This example includes a step to aggregate GTAP data, and thus requires the disaggregated data file from GTAP. This data file is not freely available but must be purchased from GTAP. Thus we have not included it with Auto-GTAP: users must manually acquire it and place it into Auto-GTAP.

The specific data used in this example was the PR2_v10_2014_Sep2017 release of GTAPg2. It was located in


and should be placed in
````Auto-GTAP\examples\productivity_increase\InputFiles\GTPAg2\GTAP10p2\GTAP\2014