The Economics of Input-Output Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780521602679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 212 str.

Thijs ten Raa

Opis

This textbook provides a systematic survey of the most recent developments in input-output analysis and their applications, helping us to examine questions such as: Which industries are competitive? What are the multiplier effects of an investment program? How do environmental restrictions impact on prices? Linear programming and national accounting are introduced and used to resolve issues such as the choice of technique, the comparative advantage of a national economy, its efficiency and dynamic performance. Technological and environmental spillovers are analyzed, both at the national level (between industries) and the international level (the measurement of globalization effects).

Recenzje

'Wassily Leontief defined and used input-output analysis in the modern era. He and his close followers took the subject far during the 20th century. Thijs ten Raa has taken the established system of economic analysis imbedded in input-output analysis and shown how it underlies the wide body of thought in the whole of the economy's supply side and production activities, both theoretical and applied, in a masterly treatment.' Lawrence R. Klein, University of Pennsylvania, and 1980 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Input-output basics; 3. Multiplier effects; 4. Linear programming; 5. Are input-output coefficients fixed?; 6. The system of national accounts; 7. The construction of technical coefficients; 8. From input-output coefficients to the Cobb-Douglas function; 9. The diagnosis of inefficiency; 10. Input-output analysis of international trade; 11. Environmental input-output economics; 12. Productivity growth and spillovers; 13. The dynamic inverse; 14. Stochastic input-output analysis.