In general terms, key sectors analysis aims at identifying and quantifying the economic impact of a sector in a given economy. For a sector, we mean here either an industry or a region, or even a cluster of them. Quite a few measures and methodologies of varied complexity have been proposed in...

Partiendo de la Matriz de Contabilidad Social de Andalucía del año 2008 (MCSAN-08), elaborada para el Instituto de Estadística y Cartografía de Andalucía, con gran cantidad de información desagregada y con un elevado grado de fiabilidad, es posible realizar análisis suficientemente...

During the period 2014--2020 it will be the first time since Spain joined the European Economic Community that the Southern region of Andalusia will not be considered as one of the Objective 1 priority areas for the European Regional Policy. This paper analyses the economic impact of the...

This paper provides a new reading of a classical economic relation: the short-run Phillips curve. Our point is that, when dealing with inflation and unemployment, policy-making can be understood as a multicriteria decision-making problem. Hence, we use so-called multiobjective programming in...

Macroeconomic policy makers are typically concerned with several indicators of economic performance. We thus propose to tackle the design of macroeconomic policy using Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques. More specifically, we employ Multi-objective Programming (MP) to seek so-called...

The objective of this work is to analyze the effects that an increase in the price of the water delivered to the agriculture sector to promote the conservation of this resource would have on the effi ciency of the consumption of water and the possible sectoral reallocation of water to the...

Andre F. J. and Cardenete M. A. Designing efficient subsidy policies in a regional economy: a multicriteria decision-making (MCDM)-computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach, Regional Studies. Since policy-makers usually pursue several conflicting objectives, policy-making can be understood...