Natural and anthropogenic disasters frequently affect both the supply and demand side of an economy. A striking recent example is the COVID-19 pandemic which has created severe industry-specific disruptions to economic output in most countries. Since firms are embedded in production networks,...

Ready meals contribute to the economic performance of the UK economy. However, in 2020, demand declined due to the COVID-19 pandemic; chilled ready meals declined by 3.6 per cent but frozen and ambient ready meals grew by 10.1 per cent and 5.6 per cent, respectively. This has implications for the...

This study uses input-output labor-accounting to estimate the impact of rising imports from China on US employment. Our counterfactual analysis incorporates offsets from substitution for imports from other countries, increased US exports to China and other countries, and job gains in downstream...

The non-substitution theorem was first demonstrated by Samuelson and Georgescu-Roegen for a generalized model of Leontief. The theorem raised the question to know if the “deep-seated causes of [economic] development are to be found in the variations of the basic structural relationships...

Indubitably born in the USA, input-output analysis has an important European history, from its very beginnings in the Soviet Union to the postwar huge development of I/O techniques in West and North Europe. This paper studies the European experience of input-output analysis by surveying and...

The purpose of this paper is to measure the impact of the recent Korea-Japan trade dispute on the Korean economy using supply-driven input-output analysis. In July 2019, Japan announced the decision to tighten the export control of three materials which are indispensable in the manufacturing of...