The Official Journal of the Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS)
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This study proposes a use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the performance of energy industries. The DEA is a nonparametric approach that does not assume any functional form for performance assessm...
Journal of Economic Structures 2017 6:13
Published on: 4 May 2017
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The current study is divided into two parts. Part I deals with the indices of resource and impact decoupling for 13 countries of the EU, for a period spanning from 1990 to 2011. Employing the major pressures, ...
Journal of Economic Structures 2017 6:12
Published on: 3 May 2017
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This note describes a simple technique of decomposing total impact multipliers derived from input–output analysis. The approach uses a generalised supply and use table framework, explicitly distinguishing betw...
Journal of Economic Structures 2017 6:11
Published on: 26 April 2017
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This study extends the current New Keynesian modeling framework by changing one crucial aspect: it replaces the general equilibrium assumption by the arguably more realistic assumption of macroeconomic disequi...
Journal of Economic Structures 2017 6:10
Published on: 26 April 2017
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Over the last few decades, Morocco has been undergoing a strong and fast water demand increase due to demographic upsurge, irrigated agriculture expansion, flourishing foreign trade and changing standard of li...
Journal of Economic Structures 2017 6:9
Published on: 19 April 2017
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Agricultural information is transferred through social interactions; therefore, ties to agricultural informants and network structures within farmers’ local neighborhoods determine their information-gathering ...
Journal of Economic Structures 2017 6:8
Published on: 12 April 2017
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Environmental assessment and pollution protection are important concerns in modern business and policy. Consumers are interested in corporate efforts on not only their products but also environmental protectio...
Journal of Economic Structures 2017 6:7
Published on: 4 April 2017
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We present an algorithmic approach for the design of fiscal policy rules. In particular, using algorithmic feedback control techniques, we design linear feedback policy rules such that predetermined target lev...
Journal of Economic Structures 2017 6:5
Published on: 16 March 2017
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This research investigates efficiency differences between two important financial approaches that credit card companies use to attract customers. Since the cash-back offer has been already investigated by prev...
Journal of Economic Structures 2017 6:6
Published on: 16 March 2017
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This study investigates consumers’ preference for dynamic pricing rules using a choice experiment. Among alternative electricity pricing rules, time of use (TOU) is most preferred by consumers, and our estima...
Journal of Economic Structures 2017 6:4
Published on: 2 March 2017
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Journal of Economic Structures 2017 6:3
Published on: 14 February 2017
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The contention that “inclusive” institutions are the deep determinants of economic growth remains unsatisfactory. This paper develops an alternative theoretical and empirical case that economic structures are ...
Journal of Economic Structures 2017 6:2
Published on: 10 February 2017
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As the economic importance of tourism increases, it is important to consider the effects that tourism has on the environment in the affected regions of the country. In our study, we selected two popular touris...
Journal of Economic Structures 2017 6:1
Published on: 26 January 2017
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Metal extraction and smelting cause considerable impacts on the environment. Consumption-based impact accounting highlights the responsibility of metal-consuming industries for the impacts and may drive a syst...
Journal of Economic Structures 2016 5:28
Published on: 21 December 2016
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The trade deficit of the USA with its NAFTA partners, Mexico and Canada, increased since 1994 from 21,991 to 119,257 million dollars in 2013 (UNCOMTRADE, 2015.
Journal of Economic Structures 2016 5:27
Published on: 21 November 2016
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Journal of Economic Structures 2016 5:26
Published on: 1 November 2016
The original article was published in Journal of Economic Structures 2016 5:13
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We develop an interregional computable general equilibrium model to help assess the ex ante impact of transportation infrastructure policies in Egypt. The model is integrated with a GIS network. We illustrate ...
Journal of Economic Structures 2016 5:25
Published on: 13 October 2016
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This paper deals with the challenges associated with the generation of a social accounting matrix (SAM) in conditions where up-to-date measured data are particularly scarce and provides future researchers of e...
Journal of Economic Structures 2016 5:24
Published on: 27 September 2016
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Journal of Economic Structures 2016 5:23
Published on: 23 September 2016
The original article was published in Journal of Economic Structures 2016 5:22
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The aim of this research is to introduce a multiregional social accounting matrix (SAM) in Japan evaluating the regional and interregional spillover effects of economic impacts and to show the impact flows of ...
Journal of Economic Structures 2016 5:22
Published on: 3 August 2016
The Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Economic Structures 2016 5:23
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This paper proposes a comprehensive decomposition method to estimate how changes in domestic economic scale, industrial composition, domestic technology, export scale of intermediate products, export compositi...
Journal of Economic Structures 2016 5:20
Published on: 2 August 2016
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We examine the causal relationship between electricity consumption and sectoral output growth in Uganda. First, we use vector error correction techniques to estimate the long-run relationship between electric...
Journal of Economic Structures 2016 5:21
Published on: 2 August 2016
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Many structural changes have occurred in the European Union countries, for example, there have been changes in sectoral employment share, in the demand of goods due to technology, in trade patterns and in tech...
Journal of Economic Structures 2016 5:19
Published on: 19 July 2016
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In this article, we assume a union of countries where each national economy interacts with the others. We propose a new model where (a) delayed variables are incorporated into the system of equations and (b) t...
Journal of Economic Structures 2016 5:18
Published on: 8 June 2016
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In the context of the transformation toward a “green economy,” issues related to natural resource use have rapidly increased in importance in European and international policy debates. The large number of stud...
Journal of Economic Structures 2016 5:17
Published on: 6 June 2016
