The Make-Use Model serves as a basis for most national accounting systems as the System of National Accounts (SNA) and is acknowledged as the most suitable model for interregional analysis. Two hypotheses are traditionally made featuring either industry-based technologies (IBT) or...

This paper introduces the rest of this issue, which is dedicated to the contributions of Sir Richard Stone, Michael Bacharach, and Philip Israilevich. It starts out with a brief history of biproportional techniques and related matrix balancing algorithms. We then discuss the RAS algorithm...

Two elements are being presented in this paper: (1) A new and original method for analyzing matrix dynamics, called the synthetical biproportional projector method (SBP), which can be used to project input-output tables and compare one with another. (2) Some results for France for the important...

The traditional dynamic Leontief model is synchronous: every vertex acts simultaneously. A model with delays of action has been proposed, but it still remains synchronous. In this paper the author proposes an asynchronous version of the model that allows realistic computations. He furnishes an...

A fixed input coefficient is traditionally interpreted as the additional input from one sector that is required for an additional unit of output in another sector. It is shown that this ratio of increments is, in general, not fixed under aggregation. A tight upper and lower bound for its...

The method of forecast output coincidence used to determine if sectors are demandsided or supply-sided in an input-output framework mixes two effects, the structural effect (choosing between demand and supply side models) and the effect of an exogenous factor (final demand or added-value). The...

The biproportion of S on margins of M is called the intern composition law, K: (S,M) → X = K(S,M) / X = ASB. A and B are diagonal matrices, algorithmically computed, providing the respect of margins of M. Biproportion is an empirical concept. In this paper, we show that any algorithm used to...

This paper is a reply to Oosterhaven's reply of the paper A critical comment on Oosterhaven-Stelder net multipliers written by de Mesnard in this issue of The Annals of Regional Science. It is argued that, unlike Oosterhaven's statement, (1) any coefficient must be stable but Oosterhaven-Stelder...

Recently, Oosterhaven and Stelder (OS, 2002) have introduced the operational idea of a 'compensated net multiplier' (CNM) to take into account the double counting that occurs when output replaces final demand as an exogenous entry when the Leontief model is used to evaluate operationally the...

This research note demonstrates the advantage of biproportional projection over the ordinary (proportional) method of technical coefficients in input-output analysis: the former is insensitive to price changes, the latter is not so. Consequently, structural change can generally be measured using...