New Zealand's reforms beginning in 1984 markedly improved the country's economic prospects. They were one of the most radical and comprehensive programmes of structural change among countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This paper examines how New...

New Zealand's reforms beginning in 1984 markedly improved the country's economic prospects. They were one of the most radical and comprehensive programmes of structural change among countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This paper examines how New...

R&D spillovers are unanimously considered as one of the main driving forces of technical change, innovation and economic growth. This paper aims at measuring interindustry R&D spillovers. We apply an 'uncertainty-sensitivity analysis' to the Italian input-output table of intermediate goods split...

The green industry comprises the production and marketing of woody ornamentals, greenhouse, and turfgrass-related products, and landscape and horticultural services. The industry is market oriented with prospects for future growth. Many state trade organizations have become interested in better...

The main objective of this paper is to show how Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Models can be used to highlight and address issues related to income distribution and poverty. The paper is divided into two major parts. Part 1 presents the concept of the...

Turkiye ekonomisi icin kilit sektorleri bulmak amaciyla girdi-cikti analizinin kullanildigi bu calismada, Bulmer-Thomas in onermis oldugu baglanti etkileri kullanilmistir. Elde edilen sonuclara gore; Tarim, Ticaret, Ulasim-Haberlesme ve Kisisel Hizmet sektorleri Turkiye ekonomisi icin kilit...

This paper develops a thermodynamic input–output (TIO) model of the 1997 United States economy that accounts for the flow of cumulative exergy in the 488-sector benchmark economic input–output model in two different ways. Industrial cumulative exergy consumption (ICEC) captures the exergy of...

This paper takes as its starting point a combination of a (monetary) input-output model with a national Ecological Footprint account for Germany in the spirit of Wiedmann et al. (2006). Footprint as well as biocapacity are dealt with at the industry level. Gross output of each industry and final...

According to the official Institute of Tourist Studies the Balearic Islands, a Spanish region with just over one million inhabitants, received 9.6 million international arrivals in 2005 out of 55.8 million for the entire country. Although a rather impressive figure, it is 4.8% below the 10.1...