The purpose of this paper is to build consistent, integrated datasets to investigate whether various disaggregated data can shed light on the possible sources of the statistical discrepancy. Our strategy is first to use disaggregated data to estimate consistent sets of input-output models that...

En el entorno económico actual, calificado como “Economía basada en el conocimiento”, la innovación se ha convertido en una actividad clave en la práctica totalidad de las actividades productivas, siendo la ejecución de actividades de I+D un input esencial. El objetivo de este trabajo...

We consider the "and" communication mechanism that inputs messages from two players and outputs the public signal "yes" if both messages are "yes", and outputs "no" otherwise. We prove that no correlation can securely be implemented through finite or infinite repetition of this mechanism.

Recent research on integrated econometric+input-output modeling for regional economies is reviewed. The motivations for and the alternative methodological approaches to this type of analysis are examined. Particular attention is given to the issues arising from multiregional linkages and spatial...

We investigate in this paper differences in productive efficiency across sixteen European countries. In order to assess differences in productive efficiency, we have built a dynamic input-output model and computed for each country the balanced growth rate and the balanced output composition....

China and Brazil are two countries with continental dimensions, with differences in availability of natural resources, population sizes, and which have adopted different strategies of economic growth in the past. China has been following consistently a strategy of Export Led Growth (ELG), while...

This paper is aimed at discussing the description of an efficiency index as a metric distance, and its relationship to the profit function.

This paper gives an overview of economic theories and models in the tradition of sectoral analysis and introduces the articles in this special issue. Some actual questions in the debate are highlighted and the attempt is made to give some legitimacy for the sectoral perspective. As one general...

Estudios de Economía Aplicada includes in its Contributions section, both forgotten texts form relevant authors, and other specially interesting studies of general scope. This time, we have selected an unpublished study of Wassily Leontief written in 1966 jointly with Anne Carter (member of EEA...

Global value chains are supported not only directly by domestic regions that export goods and services to the world market, but also indirectly by other domestic regions that provide parts, components, and intermediate services to final exporting regions. In order to better understand the nature...