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Journal of Economic Structures

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Table 2 Inter-regional comparison among the Chinese, Japanese, and the U.S. economy in 2009

From: Triangulation of Input–Output Tables Based on Mixed Integer Programs for Inter-temporal and Inter-regional Comparison of Production Structures

Country China (CHN) Japan (JPN) USA
Degrees of linearity 0.8121 0.8154 0.8732
Kendall τ
Pair of countries (CHN, JPN) (CHN, USA) (JPN, USA) Mean
Individual 0.5866 0.4622 0.6202 0.5563
Simultaneous 0.5933 0.4689 0.6202 0.5608
α = 0.99 0.8857 0.8588 0.8387 0.8611
α = 0.95 1.0000 1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
  1. Note: “CHN” and “JPN” refer to China and Japan, respectively. The Kendall rank correlation coefficients are in the lower table. “Individual” refers to the results of IP (7) and “Simultaneous” refers to the results of MIP (13) or MIP (14) with α = 1. The two rows at the bottom refer to the results of MIP (14) with α = 0.99 and 0.95
  2. Source: Own calculation
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