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Influence of income difference on carbon and material footprints for critical metals: the case of Japanese households

This study simultaneously analyzed the carbon and material footprints for three critical metals (neodymium, cobalt, and platinum) in Japanese households with different income levels. These metals are critical ...

Authors: Yosuke Shigetomi, Keisuke Nansai, Shigemi Kagawa and Susumu Tohno

Determinants of industrial output in Syria

This study attempts to investigate the determinants of industrial output in Syria over the period 1980–2010. The ADF unit root test, Johansen cointegration test, Granger causality test, impulse response funct...

Authors: Adel Shakeeb Mohsen, Soo Y. Chua and Che Normee Che Sab

Measuring the waste footprint of cities in Japan: an interregional waste input–output analysis

Metropolitan regions, which are typically planned without considering aspects related to sustainability, tend to depend on neighboring regions for their waste treatment, particularly for the disposal of solid ...

Authors: Makiko Tsukui, Shigemi Kagawa and Yasushi Kondo

Revisiting the quality of exports

In the context of world value chains, the manner in which production occurs has made more difficult to judge countries’ export quality, given that the international division of labor is arranged around phases ...

Authors: Gerardo Fujii-Gambero and Manuel García-Ramos

How scale and ownership are related to financial performance? A productivity analysis of the Chinese banking sector

This paper analyzes productivity with a directional distance function model by investigating convexity and non-convexity in the Chinese banking sector. Two primary findings are summarized. First, there is a di...

Authors: Carlos Barros, Hidemichi Fujii and Shunsuke Managi

Production analysis in environmental, resource, and infrastructure evaluation

Over the past several decades, significant efforts have been made to regulate the use of resource and pollution in most industrialized countries, and the stringency of pollution regulations has continued to in...

Authors: Shunsuke Managi and George Halkos

The relationship between the key sectors in the european union economy and the intra-European Union trade

The paper studies the properties of the productive structure of a region and national economies within the region. We use input–output data to calculate and compare input–output linkages and complex network me...

Authors: Martha G. Alatriste-Contreras

Does international trade improve environmental efficiency? An application of a super slacks-based measure of efficiency

This study analyzes the impact of international trade on environmental efficiency. Using a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model that allows us to treat undesirable outputs and super-efficiency beyond unity, w...

Authors: Satoshi Honma

Quality-adjusted productivity gain in the propagation of innovation

We introduce a class of production function whose inputs and outputs constitute multiples of quality and quantity. Under the efficiency unit approach, we precisely reduce innovation regarding qualitative and q...

Authors: Satoshi Nakano and Kazuhiko Nishimura

Construction of a multi-regional input-output table for Nagoya metropolitan area, Japan

Japan has many input-output tables, national and regional. We focus on the Nagoya metropolitan area, in which Toyota Motors is headquartered along with many industries manufacturing transport equipment, machin...

Authors: Mitsuo Yamada

The effect of natural and man-made disasters on countries’ production efficiency

This study intends to understand how disaster is related to countries’ production efficiency using a sample of 137 countries over 1980–2011. We analyze the effect of the number of man-made and natural disaster...

Authors: George Halkos, Shunsuke Managi and Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

Demand for industrial and commercial electricity: evidence from Japan

This study aims to estimate electricity demand functions in Japan’s industrial and commercial sectors. We adopt data from the Energy Consumption Statistics by Prefecture by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and I...

Authors: Akihiro Otsuka

Rents in the era of resource scarcity: global payment flows under alternative scenarios

Resource prices rise when more costly sources need to be exploited. When the world price increases, owners of low-cost sources receive scarcity rents. The magnitude of the rents depends on the range of resourc...

Authors: Faye Duchin and Stephen H. Levine

Measuring the comprehensive wage effect of changes in unit labor cost

Unit labor cost (ULC) is defined as labor compensation per value added. It captures the cost competitiveness of industries and countries. As labor compensation is wage multiplied by hours worked or number of p...

Authors: Hideyuki Mizobuchi

Baseline analysis of productivity changes with and without considering carbon dioxide emissions in the major manufacturing sector of Indonesia

This paper provides empirical evidence of changes in the productivities of manufacturing firms in Indonesia over time, in the form of total factor productivity (TFP), from 1990 to 2010 with and without conside...

Authors: Erik Armundito and Shinji Kaneko

Carbon footprint analysis through constructing a multi-region input–output table: a case study of Japan

In line with recent trends toward decentralization, prefectural and municipal governments in Japan are becoming increasingly involved with managing global warming in their regions. As a result, there is a new ...

Authors: Ryoji Hasegawa, Shigemi Kagawa and Makiko Tsukui

A productivity analysis considering environmental pollution and diseases in China

Environmental pollution and human health problems are becoming serious issues in China. This research focuses on regional differences in productive inefficiencies and attempts to clarify the determinants of in...

Authors: Huijuan Cao, Hidemichi Fujii and Shunsuke Managi

A nonparametric approach for evaluating long-term energy policy scenarios: an application to the Greek energy system

This paper by using Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System (LEAP) constructs four different renewable energy scenarios for the Greek transport, energy, and industry sectors. By projecting the demand fo...

Authors: George Halkos, Nickolaos G Tzeremes and Panayiotis G Tzeremes

Trade in value added in the West Pacific: an input-output analysis

The evolution of trade between the four regions in the West Pacific in both gross and value added terms is analyzed using international input-output tables. It is found that value added exports of computers an...

Authors: Yoichi Nakamura

Anthropogenic Climate Change in an Integrated Energy Balance Model of Global and Urban Warming

This paper presents an integrated energy balance model of global and urban warming in the attributes/functionings framework à la Gorman–Lancaster–Sen and proposes a Global Warming Function and an Urban Warming Fu...

Authors: Kimitoshi Sato

A Human Capital Based Growth Model with Environment and Corruption

In this paper, we present a simple overlapping-generations model with human capital, pollution, and political corruption to consider problems related to sustainable growth. In many growth models that incorpora...

Authors: Daisuke Ikazaki

Agricultural Modernization, Structural Change and Pro-poor Growth: Policy Options for the Democratic Republic of Congo

This paper applies the framework for pro-poor analysis to welfare changes from a CGE-microsimulation model to analyze what are the better or worse models for agriculture modernization, and to estimate the cont...

Authors: Christian S Otchia

The Delay Effect in a Stochastic Multiplier–Accelerator Model

This paper extends the classical Samuelson multiplier–accelerator model for national economy. Actually, this new modeling structure removes the basic shortcoming of the original model producing stable business...

Authors: Ioannis K Dassios, Alexandros A Zimbidis and Charalambos P Kontzalis

Liberalization and FDI Performance: Evidence from ASEAN and SAFTA Member Countries

The developing and least developed countries in the South and Southeast Asia have emerged as dynamic hosts of foreign direct investment; and inbound FDI growth surpassed that of the developing world during the...

Authors: Muhammad Shariat Ullah and Kazuo Inaba

A Waste Supply-Use Analysis of Australian Waste Flows

In this paper we apply the Lenzen and Reynolds (2014) Waste Supply Use Table extension of Nakamura and Kondo’s (2002a) Waste Input–Output (WIO) framework to the 2008 Australian economy. This is the first applicat...

Authors: Christian John Reynolds, Julia Piantadosi and John Boland

Obituary, Professor Debesh Chakraborty

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Authors: Kakali Mukhopadhyay

Input–Output Analysis of the Interdependence Between Japan and China Through Japanese Overseas Production

We reconstructed the 2007 Japan–China International Input–Output Table as one that extracts Japanese production activities from China, using microdata of about 3,600 establishments in the METI Statistics “Surv...

Authors: Mitsuo Yamada

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

Understanding the industrial structure of a national or regional economy is one of the central issues in economics. The triangulation of an input–output table (IOT) can be employed to understand the production...

Authors: Yasushi Kondo

Effects of Technological Change on Non-renewable Resource Extraction and Exploration

This paper provides a non-renewable resource extraction model with both technological change and resource exploration. Especially, we consider two types of technology, extraction technology and exploration tec...

Authors: Eiji Sawada and Shunsuke Managi

Impacts of Growth of a Service Economy on CO₂ Emissions: Japan’s Case

The structural transition to a service economy has clearly contributed to decreasing direct (or territorial) greenhouse gas emissions. Nevertheless, the role of this structural transition on direct greenhouse ...

Authors: Shunsuke Okamoto

Eliminating Indirect Energy Subsidies in Ukraine: Estimation of Environmental and Socioeconomic Effects Using Input–Output Modeling

Energy subsidies are causing adverse effects on the economy and environment stimulating inefficient resource allocation and excessive energy consumption. Therefore, multiple positive effects are likely to be o...

Authors: Iuliia Ogarenko and Klaus Hubacek

Quality Adjustment in Non-spanning Markets with Variety Aversion

This paper examines the dynamic process of quality adjustment in cases where the economy lacks a sufficient number of markets for coordinating the level of attributes that configure the qualities of products. ...

Authors: Kazuhiko Nishimura

The Problem of Negatives Generated by the Commodity Technology Model in Input–Output Analysis: A Review of the Solutions

Many economic models (e.g., computable general equilibrium models, econometric input–output models) revolve around a matrix of technical coefficients. However, these matrices can be estimated only once every 5...

Authors: Thijs ten Raa and José Manuel Rueda-Cantuche

A Disaggregated and Macro-consistent Social Accounting Matrix for Pakistan

This paper provides future researchers of economic structure with a model for building a social accounting matrix (SAM), that is, a unique countrywide database for use in structural analysis, and applies this ...

Authors: Darío Debowicz, Paul Dorosh, Hamza Syed Haider and Sherman Robinson

Net Worth Ratio and Financial Instability

In order to better understand relationships between the real economy and financial economy, it is necessary to formulate a model of financing. New Keynesian theory emphasizes that a firm’s net worth influences...

Authors: Toshio Watanabe

Restatement of the I-O Coefficient Stability Problem

The capacity of input-output tables to reflect the structural peculiarities of an economy and to forecast, on this basis, its evolution, depends essentially on the characteristics of the matrix A—matrix of I-O...

Authors: Emilian Dobrescu

Key Sectors of the Namibian Economy

The present paper presents key sector research for the Namibian economy, based on input–output and Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) analyzes. The analyses were derived from a Namibian SAM for the 2004 period, us...

Authors: Michael N Humavindu and Jesper Stage

Accounting for Changes in Automobile Gasoline Consumption in Japan: 2000–2007

This paper analyzes gasoline consumption in Japan for the period 2000–2007 using the index decomposition analysis (IDA). The changes in gasoline consumption in Japan were attributed to five factors: (1) change...

Authors: Shigemi Kagawa, Yuriko Goto, Sangwon Suh, Keisuke Nansai and Yuki Kudoh

Observing evidence of insider trading in the Athens Stock Exchange

This study proposes a process for observing evidence of insider trading in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE). This is performed by building an environment which, based upon previous research, common sense and in...

Authors: Eleftherios Thalassinos, Dimitrios Maditinos and Athanasios Paschalidis

Recycling of waste and downgrading of secondary resources in a classical type of production model

This paper analyses recycling of waste and downgrading of secondary resources using a classical type of production model represented by a Sraffian model. Residuals emitted as waste by households and secondary ...

Authors: Eiji B Hosoda

Constructing enterprise input-output tables - a case study of New Zealand dairy products

We describe an efficient method for estimating enterprise input-output tables for cases when only information on marginal totals is available. In order to estimate the production structure of enterprises, we u...

Authors: Manfred Lenzen and Sven Lundie

Nonmyopia and incentives in the piecewise linearized MDP procedures with variable step-sizes

The paper formulates a piecewise linearized version of the procedure developed by Sato (1983) and analyzes its properties. In so doing, Fujigaki’s (1981) private goods economy is extended to involve a public g...

Authors: Kimitoshi Sato

Input-output impact analysis in current or constant prices: does it matter?

This paper addresses the question whether the results of input-output (IO) impact analyses differ (and to what extent) when a framework in current prices or in constant prices is used. We consider the effect o...

Authors: Erik Dietzenbacher and Umed Temurshoev

The rectangular sector-by-technology model: not every economy produces every product and some products may rely on several technologies simultaneously

This paper identifies a fundamental challenge in the development of input-output databases of the world economy intended for analysis of alternative scenarios with a model of the world economy. Primary data so...

Authors: Faye Duchin and Stephen H Levine

Performance measurement in an input-output framework

This paper fruitfully combines two complementary theories: performance measurement and input-output analysis. Our point of departure is the theory of the consumer, who maximizes utility subject to a budget con...

Authors: Thijs ten Raa

Editorial

Authors: Shigemi Kagawa and Kazuhiko Nishimura