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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