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Summary The paper uses the so-called Minimal Flow Analysis (MFA) Method as an efficient tool of production-structure analysis. It applies a graph-theortical approach which remedies to some extent existing deficits of other Qualitative Analysis Methods by increasingly taking into account...

For the analysis of economic interdependences form an environmental perspective, a condensation of the information contained in input-output (IO) tables is desirable, but without much loss of the quantitative dimension. For the case of total energy requirements, main contributions identification...

The paper introduces an alternative method to determine "sensitivity' within an input-output-context and makes the most sensitive connections visible in an overall graph. The method called ECA (Elasticity Coefficient Analysis) tries—like the Important Coefficient Analysis (ICA)—to derive...