The Flemish economy is a very open economy and as such heavily relies on trade with both the neighbouring economies as well as more distanced economies and it also tries to attract foreign direct investments. The paper reviews the evolution and interrelation of some competitiveness indicators in...

Input-output table depicts the economic activity as a system of interrelated commodities, services, and final demand. Input-output analysis is utilized to explain economic changes in today’s economy, which lead to useful insights to us. However, we advocate that input-output model should have...

A conceptual reflection will be carried out and a practical and methodological guide will be provided to the work undertaken with the aim of updating for 2005 a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) constructed for 2001 as a database for a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for the Azores. The...

The objective of this paper is twofold. The first focus is on a productivity analysis, including an assessment of the impact on productivity of investments in capital, labour and other inputs (energy, material). To this end a growth accounting system is developed, although this is more than an...

It is evidences that the actual global crisis affected the convergence process in EU. Generally, just new adhered countries were more affected by the actual crisis. Today all forecasts are suffering by uncertainty. There are different opinions regarding how deep and how long the convergence...

Try to find the effect of exchange rate on the employment of countries. CGE modell and new georgraphy Economics As long as we concern, the employment rate will increase when a country takes part in devaluation no matter what type it belongs to. On the other side, the participation of other...

Due to membership process, the European Union (EU) is the principal trade partner of Turkey. It has concentrated more than half of its total trade flows with EU countries since the II. World War. However, along with emerging of new markets in Asia, Turkey engaged in developing economic ties with...

Thailand and the Laos PDR have a very long border of 1,810 kilometers which has been involved with international economic transactions in terms of trade, investment, tourism and passenger transportation over a long period. There are 36 custom check points allowing passenger transportation...

See full paper Matrix of International Trade (MIT) This paper applies Matrix of International Trade (MIT) model to analyze the dynamics of inter-dependencies within APEC member and between Europe, Africa and Middle East. The quarterly portrait for the last ten years (2003Q1-2012Q4) provides...