Estimating International Interindustry Linkages: Non-survey Simulations of the Asian-Pacific Economy |
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Authors: | Jan Oosterhaven Dirk Stelder Satoshi Inomata |
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Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Economics and Business , University of Groningen , The Netherlands;2. Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO , Chiba, Japan |
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Abstract: | This paper evaluates a recently published semi-survey international input–output table for nine East-Asian countries and the USA with four non-survey estimation alternatives. A new generalized RAS procedure is used with stepwise increasing information from both import and export statistics as optimisation constraints on the four non-survey tables. The results show that the estimated table improves when increasing information from both sources is used, despite the well known inconsistencies between import and export data in trade statistics. It is concluded that the new procedure can be useful as a critical analysis of newly published (semi-)survey international tables and/or as an early updating tool during the construction process. |
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Keywords: | Non-survey estimates international trade input–output tables East-Asia United States |
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