A methodology for estimating total hicksian income in multiple-use forests is presented. The approach consistently incorporates commercial as well as non-commercial economic values and enables the measurement of national accounting aggregates taking into account variation in man-made and natural...

This paper is concerned with the choice of metrics for social cost-benefit analysis and dynamic welfare comparisons. In a utility-theoretic framework, we show that there is always a money measure that can serve as a substitute for the maximized utility wealth. Thus, under the non-arbitrage...

When green national accounts are calculated, environmental damage will have a negative impact on economic growth figures and therefore countries will be more likely to take potential damage into account when planning their growth path. Using China as an example, the following illustration will...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of the European Funds received by the Autonomous Community of Madrid during the period 2000-2006. To carry out this objective, we shall work a social accounting matrix with data from the year 2000, SAM-MAD-2000. A model of linear multipliers will be...

Although the evaluation of European Union regional policy is necessary to improve the effectiveness of the operational programmes, it is not usual to find studies comparing the efficiency of two programming periods for the case of a particular region. This could be explained by the fact that, at...

A Social Accounting Matrix is an integrated system of accounts that presents in a double-entry table all the transactions made in an economy among productive sectors, production factors, institutional sectors and the rest of the world. In comparison with an Input-Output Table, it offers a...

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...