In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Martin Jones of the Department of Geography, University of Manchester, considers the policy implications of the summary report of the TEC Baseline Follow-up Studies. In a second paper, Jo Hutchinson, Paul Foley and Hulya Oztel of the Leicester Business...

The use of spatial computable general equilibrium (SCGE) models for assessing the economic impacts of transport projects is one of the key items on the research agenda for project appraisal in the Netherlands. These models are particularly suitable for analysing indirect effects of transport...

New transport infrastructure has a myriad of short and long run effects. The effects on population and economic activity are most difficult to estimate. This paper introduces three different models to estimate the impacts of new infrastructure on labour supply and demand, and carefully explains...

This paper introduces a general, formal treatment of dynamic constraints, i.e., constraints on the state changes that are allowed in a given state space. Such dynamic constraints can be seen as representations of "real world" constraints in a managerial context. The notions of transition,...

This paper introduces a general, formal treatment of dynamic constraints, i.e., constraints on the state changes that are allowed in a given state space. Such dynamic constraints can be seen as representations of "real world" constraints in a managerial context. The notions of transition,...

This paper develops a methodology to predict the wider interregional and interindustry economic impacts of major catastrophes, such as earthquakes and tsunamis. Short-run impacts are determined by the attempts of economic actors to continue their familiar activities and established trade...

Junius and Oosterhaven (2003) developed the GRAS algorithm that minimizes the information gain when updating input-output tables with both positive and negative signs. Jackson and Murray (2004), however, claim that minimizing squared differences in coefficients produces a smaller information...

This paper refines, develops and applies input-output decomposition analysis. First, by putting it in an unique intercountry perspective, second, by concentrating on explaining income growth, and, third, by systematically separating the effects of trade pattern changes from the effects of...

Normally, when updating or regionalizing input-output matrices with negative entries, the negative numbers are first brought outside the matrix, then the matrix is updated or regionalized, then the negative numbers are added back to the result. This is theoretically, and sometimes also...