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Cropping systems diversification, improved seed, manure and inorganic fertilizer adoption by maize producers of eastern Ethiopia

The gap between demand for and supply of food in Ethiopia can be reduced by improving farm productivity through the introduction of productivity-enhancing technologies. Conversely, in Ethiopia, the adoption ra...

Authors: Musa Hasen Ahmed, Kassahun Mamo Geleta, Aemro Tazeze, Hiwot Mekonnen Mesfin and Eden Andualem Tilahun

Trade liberalization and premature deindustrialization in Colombia

This work analyzes the phenomenon of premature deindustrialization for Colombia and for other seven Latin American countries. Through a Koyck transformation model for the Colombian case, and a panel data fixed...

Authors: Mateo Hoyos López

Mega-regional trade Agreements: Costly distractions for developing countries?

This paper examines the relationship between mega-regional trade Agreements and diet-related health given that such Agreements aim to liberalize “substantially all trade and investment” that could potentially ...

Authors: Badri G. Narayanan and Sangeeta Khorana

Potential roles of export orientation of Cambodia’s agriculture and agro-industry: an application of CGE analysis

For a more diversified export structure and a better distribution of domestic income in Cambodia, agriculture and agro-industry have been specified as export potentials. While empirical impact studies within t...

Authors: Sryneath Chhuor

Tracking the PM2.5 inventories embodied in the trade among China, Japan and Korea

Due to its long-term negative health effects and increasing emissions, the PM2.5 issue has caused rising concerns in recent years. Although official media from East Asian countries tend to avoid blaming PM em...

Authors: Yiyi Ju

The impact of the TPP on selected ASEAN economies

The Trans Pacific Partnership was set to be the world's largest and most comprehensive FTA linking 12 countries on both sides of the Pacific. In a major turnaround, late January 2017, USA-one of the major trad...

Authors: Paramita Dasgupta and Kakali Mukhopadhyay

Inter-industry analysis in the Korean flow-of-funds accounts

This study mainly aims to provide an inter-industry analysis through the subdivision of various industries in flow-of-funds (FOF) accounts. Combined with the Financial Statement Analysis data from 2004 and 2005,...

Authors: Jiyoung Kim

Corporate financial structure of South Korea after Asian financial crisis: the chaebol experience

The chaebol, a South Korean form of business conglomerate, has been a key factor in the country’s economic growth. In this study, the chaebol sector is added to the asset–liability matrix derived from a flow-of-f...

Authors: Jiyoung Kim

Compilation of a regionally extended inter-country input–output table and its application to global value chain analyses

Studies on the rise of global value chains (GVCs) have attracted a great deal of interest in the recent economics literature. However, due to statistical and methodological challenges, most existing researches...

Authors: Bo Meng and Norihoko Yamano

Economy-wide impact of TPP: new challenges to China

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement as originally announced in October 2015 was undoubtedly the largest regional trade accord in history and, if approved, could have set new terms for the nearly US ...

Authors: Chandrima Sikdar and Kakali Mukhopadhyay

The short-run effects of EU funds in Spain using a CGE model: the relevance of macro-closures

This paper evaluates the impact of the structural and cohesion funds received by Spain in the period 2007–2013. The analysis is performed with a detailed computable general equilibrium (CGE) model calibrated w...

Authors: María Teresa Álvarez-Martínez and Clemente Polo

Structural change in the Chicago region and the impact on emission inventories in a continuous-time modeling approach

Motivated by both the need to model recent structural economic changes and the need to understand better the nature of environmental–economic interactions, this paper introduces a continuous-time regional econ...

Authors: Kieran Donaghy, Clifford R. Wymer, Geoffrey J. D. Hewings and Soo Jung Ha

Positivistic models of long-run labor allocation dynamics

The three-sector framework (relating to agriculture, manufacturing, and services) is one of the major concepts for studying the long-run dynamics of the economic structure. We summarize the empirical/theoretic...

Authors: Denis Stijepic

Changes in domestic value added in China’s exports: a structural decomposition analysis approach

China’s exports can be divided into three types: processing trade, normal trade of goods, and normal trade of services. Based on China’s non-competitive input–output table that captures the processing trade, w...

Authors: Yang Lianling and Yang Cuihong

CO₂ reduction potentials through the market expansion and lifetime extension of used cars

This study develops an automobile life-cycle analysis framework considering lifetimes of new and used passenger cars. Using the analysis framework based on the Weibull survival distributions of new and used ca...

Authors: Yuya Nakamoto

Accounting for resource accumulation in Japanese prefectures: an environmental efficiency analysis

This study analyzed the environmental efficiency of production activities based on the accumulated resources (i.e., buildings and roadways), factor inputs (i.e., labor and private capital stock), and CO₂ emission...

Authors: Shogo Eguchi

Modelling the dynamics of economic development driven by agricultural growth in Patna Region, India

Regional planning primarily aims at reducing the disparity in socio-economic status of the people, and the wide gulf between urban and rural life. A planning region or an area comprises of many complex structu...

Authors: Rashmi Kumari and V. Devadas

Value-added disaggregated social accounting matrix for the Indian economy of the year 2007–2008

India is pioneer in constructing the social account matrices for its economy for various years, but limited efforts have been made to construct a SAM for India with detailed description about types labour inpu...

Authors: Barun Deb Pal and Jayatilleke S. Bandarlage

World trend in energy: an extension to DEA applied to energy and environment

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...

Authors: Toshiyuki Sueyoshi and Mika Goto

Determining economic productivity under environmental and resource pressures: an empirical application

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, ...

Authors: Christina Bampatsou, George Halkos and Andreas Dimou

On the decomposition of total impact multipliers in a supply and use framework

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...

Authors: Thomas Wiedmann

Macroeconomic fluctuations in a New Keynesian disequilibrium model

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...

Authors: Bas van Aarle

An input–output framework for analysing relationships between economic sectors and water use and intersectoral water relationships in Morocco

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...

Authors: Abdeslam Boudhar, Said Boudhar and Aomar Ibourk

Effects of farmers’ social networks on knowledge acquisition: lessons from agricultural training in rural Indonesia

Agricultural information is transferred through social interactions; therefore, ties to agricultural informants and network structures within farmers’ local neighborhoods determine their information-gathering ...

Authors: Ayu Pratiwi and Aya Suzuki

Damages to return with a possible occurrence of eco-technology innovation measured by DEA environmental assessment

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...

Authors: Toshiyuki Sueyoshi

Effects of balance transfer offers on consumer short-term finance: evidence from credit card data

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...

Authors: Yan Yuan and Toshiyuki Sueyoshi

Feedback policy rules for government spending: an algorithmic approach

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...

Authors: Ilias Kostarakos and Stelios Kotsios

Which dynamic pricing rule is most preferred by consumers?—Application of choice experiment

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...

Authors: Yumi Yoshida, Kenta Tanaka and Shunsuke Managi

The robustest clusters in the input–output networks: global \(\hbox {CO}_2\) emission clusters

Finding environmentally significant clusters in global supply-chain networks of goods and services has been investigated by Kagawa et al. (Soc Netw 35(3):423–438, 2013a; Econ Syst Res 25(3):265–286, 2013b; Glob E...

Authors: Omar Rifki, Hirotaka Ono and Shigemi Kagawa

Economic structures, institutions and economic performance

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 ...

Authors: Collin Constantine

Repercussion effects of consumption by domestic tourists in Tokyo and Kyoto estimated using a regional waste input–output approach

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...

Authors: Makiko Tsukui, Takumi Ichikawa and Masaru Kagatsume

Consumption-based accounting of steel alloying elements and greenhouse gas emissions associated with the metal use: the case of Japan

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...

Authors: Hajime Ohno, Kazuyo Matsubae, Kenichi Nakajima, Keisuke Nansai, Yasuhiro Fukushima and Tetsuya Nagasaka

NAFTA trade (and some extra NAFTA trade) in value added and its distribution, 1995–2011

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.

Authors: Rosario Cervantes-Martínez, Jorge Villaseñor-Becerra and Martín Romero-Morett

Erratum to: Scale effect in Turkish manufacturing industry: stochastic metafrontier analysis

Authors: Saeid Hajihassaniasl and Recep Kök

Regional analysis of domestic integration in Egypt: an interregional CGE approach

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 ...

Authors: Eduardo Amaral Haddad, Michael L. Lahr, Dina N. Elshahawany and Moisés Vassallo

A social accounting matrix for Iraq

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...

Authors: Dario Debowicz

Erratum to: Understanding of economic spillover mechanism by structural path analysis: a case study of interregional social accounting matrix focused on institutional sectors in Japan

Authors: Hidekazu Itoh

Understanding of economic spillover mechanism by structural path analysis: a case study of interregional social accounting matrix focused on institutional sectors in Japan

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 ...

Authors: Hidekazu Itoh

Electricity consumption and sectoral output in Uganda: an empirical investigation

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...

Authors: Joseph Mawejje and Dorothy N. Mawejje

Global structural changes and their implication for territorial CO₂ emissions

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...

Authors: K. Shironitta

Labour productivity convergence and structural changes: simultaneous analysis at country, regional and industry levels

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...

Authors: Amjad Naveed and Nisar Ahmad

A macroeconomic mathematical model for the national income of a union of countries with interaction and trade

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...

Authors: Ioannis K. Dassios and Mel T. Devine

Identifying priority areas for European resource policies: a MRIO-based material footprint assessment

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...

Authors: Stefan Giljum, Hanspeter Wieland, Stephan Lutter, Martin Bruckner, Richard Wood, Arnold Tukker and Konstantin Stadler

Restructuring of the international clothing and textile trade network: the role of Italy and Portugal

Since the 1990s, the clothing and textile (C&T)-industry has been tremendously affected by changes in technology, trade costs, and the institutional environment. This paper studies the restructuring of C&T-tra...

Authors: Marlies Hanna Schütz and Nicole Palan

Toward a theory of Smart Institutions

We present an analytical approach to institutional analysis that draws inspiration from control process engineering in the physical sciences. We characterize smart institutions as having three foundational fea...

Authors: Prateek Goorha and Vijay Mohan

Structural changes, FDI, and economic growth: evidence from the Baltic states

Despite the fact that previous studies have extensively investigated the foreign direct investment (FDI)-growth nexus, those studies have not considered the role of terms of trade as a proxy for international ...

Authors: Manuchehr Irandoust

Scale effect in Turkish manufacturing industry: stochastic metafrontier analysis

Economic theories explain the economic growth affected by accumulation of production factors and increase in productivity and efficiency. Traditional growth theories focus on the first factor where in developi...

Authors: Saeid Hajihassaniasl and Recep Kök

The MDP Procedure for public goods and local strategy proofness

This paper revisits the family of MDP Procedures and analyzes their properties. It also reviews the procedure developed by Sato (Econ Stud Q 34:97–109, 1983) which achieves aggregate correct revelation in the sen...

Authors: Kimitoshi Sato

Effect of electricity system reform on retail electricity price increases in Japan

We examined the impact of the ongoing electricity system reform in Japan on social welfare, retail electricity service level and retail electricity prices. In our paper, the default system is monopolistic and ...

Authors: Eiji Sawada

Cobb–Douglas production function on FDI in Southeast Europe

In this research, we focus on effects of foreign direct investments in Southeast European economies. Using World Bank Microdata Library and specifically Enterprise Surveys, we take a sample of six countries. T...

Authors: Mico Apostolov