Concern over the environmental effects of fossil fuels in India has been growing as domestic consumption levels increase. Along with industry, households are major consumers of commercial energy and, consequently, major contributors to the total energy use in India. Emission levels in the...

The objective of this article is to analyse structural changes which occurred in Italy in the period 1992-2000. The analysis is carried out within the I-O framework by the use of multipliers, I-O elasticities, structural decomposition and causative approaches. These tools are used to assess over...

While South Africa’s growth performance has improved somewhat in recent years, it has generally been poor over the past few decades. This article uses Chenery’s factor decomposition method to analyse the sources of growth in South Africa from 1970 to 2007. Using input-output data,...

This paper was inspired by the Coase (1937) theory of the firm. The purpose of this paper is to show the applicability of data envelopment analysis (DEA) in arriving at an unbiased account of relative performance of a set of companies, using the pharmaceutical industry as an example. A DEA based...

A zárt (homogén) dinamikus modell egyensúlyi megoldásának három módszerét ismertetem. Mindhárom megoldás azonos növekedési rátához, valamint egyazon árés mennyiségi arányokhoz vezet. A folyó és tőkeráfordítási együtthatók adataival végzett eltérő műveletek miatt...

A tanulmány a variációszámítás gazdasági alkalmazásaiból ismertet hármat. Mindhárom alkalmazás a Leontief-modellen alapszik. Az optimális pályák vizsgálata után arra keressük a választ, hogy az Euler-Lagrange-differenciálegyenlet rendszerrel kapott megoldások valóban...

The goal of this paper is to study the structural change in the Andalusianeconomy during the period 2000-2005 using social accounting matrices.Although there are several methods, the causative matrix approach has been usedto analyze the above mentioned change. The study has been done using a...

Social accounting matrices (SAM)are an instrument that enlarges the information provided by the input-output analysis.These matrices study the intersectoral relationships of an economy,the behaviour of the consumers,the public sector or the foreign sector,as long as they complete the income flow...

The objective of this paper is to show the influence of the primary inputs prices on the production prices in the Catalan Economy. The methodology we use is the input-output framework, which has permitted us to reflect the changes in the prices of domestic processing sectors under changes in...

The main goal of this paper is to present a recent Social Accounting Matrix for the region of Andalusia (SAMAND95). Using a variety of available data, such as the Regional Income and Product Accounts, the 1995 Input-Output Table for Andalusia, as well as some national level data, we have...