This paper documents the construction of consistent social accounts that cover the period from 1978 to 2001 for the U.S. economy at a two-digit level of aggregation. There are four primary data sources for the construction of the accounts. First, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) publishes a...

Applied partial and general equilibrium models used to examine trade policy are almost universally sensitive to trade elasticities. Indeed, the Armington elasticity, the degree of substitution between domestic and imported goods, is a key behavioral parameter that drives the quantitative, and...