Matriz de Contabilidade Social Regional: Procedimentos Metodológicos e Aplicação ao Rio Grande do Sul

The formulation of Regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models demands the set up of a coherent and consistent data bank of the economy under investigation. This data bank is provided by the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM), which specifies the interdependencies between the economic agents, and the direction of the incoming flows between them. The objective of this work is to describe the procedures used to generate a SAM for the Rio Grande do Sul, and to build a regional CGE for this state. Publishing the procedures adopted for the creation of the SAM, the authors hope to stimulate the assemblage of CGE models for the remaining Brazilian states. When both SAMs and CGE models become available for all of the Brazilian regional economies, it will be possible to perform cross multi-regional analyzes