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...

We use a Computable General Equilibrium model to simulate the effects of an Environmental Tax Reform in a regional economy (Andalusia, Spain). The reform involves imposing a tax on CO2 or SO2 emissions and reducing either the Income Tax or the payroll tax of employers to Social Security, and...

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...

An extension of the hypothetical extraction method to a general equilibrium setting is considered. This has the advantage of re-interpreting output changes as efficiency gains or losses, which may be of use in identifying “key” sectors in an interconnected economy. The categorization may be...

This research aims analyzes the economic structure of the EU-27 economy by 2000, using the Agricultural Social Accounting Matrices (Agrosams) developed by JRC-ITPS (EC) which are disaggregated agricultural sector of these countries and for that particular yearWe will use the software SIMIPSAM...

From the classical gold standard up to the current ERM2 arrangement of the European Union, target zones have been a widely used exchange regime in contemporary history. This paper presents a benchmark model that rationalizes the choice of target zones over the rest of regimes: the fixed rate,...