The capacity of input-output tables to reflect the structural peculiarities of an economy and to forecast, on this basis, its evolution, depends essentially on the characteristics of the matrix A—matrix of I-O (or technical) coefficients. However, the temporal behaviour of these coefficients...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the weak form of market efficiency of Asian four selected stock markets. We have taken a daily closing price of stock markets under the study from the 1st January 2000 to 31st March 2011 and also divided full sample in three interval periods, and...

This study estimates the impact of migrants’ remittances on households’ spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and housing, but decrease expenditures on food....

This study aims to evaluate, in terms of their cardinal, ordinal, and dichotomy consistency, five alternative comercial specialization indicators: a Balassa symmetric index version; a Chi-Squared Index; and the Relative Trade Advantage Index, all these three based on revealed comparative...

This paper presents a critical analysis of some of the techniques which are applied in practice to obtain composite indicators from a previous sub-indicator system. In studying each methodology, we identify the advantages and disadvantages associated with them, paying particular attention to...

Bei der Weiterentwicklung erneuerbarer Energien spielen die Bundesländer eine wichtige Rolle, beispielsweise durch eigene Ausbauziele und die Gestaltung rechtlicher und administrativer Rahmenbedingungen. Die Bundesländer können damit wesentlich zum Gelingen der Energiewende beitragen. Das DIW...

The present article reviews poverty studies in Spanish Autonomous Communities using a new methodological approach. One of the main concerns in those studies is poverty concentration in specific Spanish Autonomous Communities. This can be the result of a bias due to use a unique national poverty...

In this paper we focus on presenting on supply and use tables and the approach in order to convert supply and use tables to input-output table and some comments on the assumption for converting from supply and use tables to input-output table. -- activity ; industry ; input-output ; matrix ;...

In this paper, we measure and analyse profit efficiency and productivity of Vietnamese banks using a newly developed index approach which is based on the directional distance function. Our findings indicate that the average bank operates quite far below the frontier of the best-practice bank,...

For many researchers around the world, the applications of the RAS method can say in both easy way and difficult way. In our study, we would like to bring to readers the RAS method, and in the best way to understand in balancing the Supply-Use tables or Input-Output tables in the usual...