Search Results - subject:"input-output economics"

The Upstream Tariff Simulator (UTAS) : a tool to assess the impact of tariff reform on input costs and effective protection across sectors

Eberhard-Ruiz, Andreas; Varela, Gonzalo; Casal, Lucia; … - 2020

Increased international production fragmentation implies that firms at home rely on imported intermediates for production. In this context, tariff policy design needs to consider the impact downstream of changes in tariffs upstream. Policy makers embarking on tariff reforms need to answer...

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The EU Services Directive: Gains from Further Liberalization

Corugedo, Emilio Fernández; Ruiz, Esther Pérez - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

The EU Services Directive was adopted in 2006 to foster competition in services across Europe. However, progress in liberalizing services has fallen short of expectations due to the article 15 of the Directive, which allows countries to maintain pre-existing restrictions if judged necessary to...

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Analysing global value chains using input‐output economics : proceed with care

Nomaler, Önder; Verspagen, Bart - 2014

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Medical expenditure growth and the diffusion of medical technology

Polchlopek, Justin - 2011

The general consensus among health economists is that the increasing capability of medical providers-often called medical technology-is responsible for the majority of growth in medical expenditure. And yet, the principle means of understanding medical technology is through the use of total...

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Medical Expenditure Growth and the Diffusion of Medical Technology

Polchlopek, Justin - Department of Economics, University of Utah - 2011

The general consensus among health economists is that the increasing capability of medical providers— often called medical “technology”—is responsible for the majority of growth in medical expenditure. And yet, the principle means of understanding medical technology is through the use of...

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Industrial ecology and input-output economics: an introduction

Suh, Sangwon; Kagawa, Shigemi - In: Economic Systems Research 17 (2005) 4, pp. 349-364

contributions from input-output economics. A brief history of industrial ecology and input-output economics is presented, focusing … on a number of specific areas where the two disciplines overlap. The role of input-output economics in industrial ecology … is discussed in terms of how input-output economics has been, and is being, utilized in industrial ecology. Finally the …

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Biproportional Techniques in Input-Output Analysis: Table Updating and Structural Analysis

Lahr, Michael; Mesnard, Louis de - EconWPA - 2004

This paper is dedicated to the contributions of Sir Richard Stone, Michael Bacharach, and Philip Israilevich. It starts out with a brief history of biproportional techniques and related matrix balancing algorithms. We then discuss the RAS algorithm developed by Sir Richard Stone and others. We...

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