Input-output modeling : proceedings of the Fifth IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) Task Force Meeting on Input-Output Modeling, held at Laxenburg, Austria, October 4-6, 1984

Input-output modeling has, through the years, provided a consistent and unifying focus for IIASA's economic research. Scientists working in the Institute, first in the economic modeling task of the System and Decision Sciences area and later within the Economic Structural Change project, have cooperated extensively with colleagues throughout the world in advancing and contributing to input-output work. Perhaps the most notable aspect of these efforts has been the joint work with the INFORUM Project to develop linked systems of national models. Experience gained from the INFORUM-IIASA studies has been of great benefit to other members of the I/O community, but this is by no means the end of the story. Contributors not connected with INFORUM have also brought their own very valuable insights and knowledge to bear on the subject, and input-output modeling has moved progressively away from being a purely academic specialization. A number of the methods developed have direct application to economic analysis and policy formulation, and I/O techniques have achieved widespread use in both governmental and commercial environments. This volume presents the results of the fifth in a series of meetings organized by IIASA to promote methodological advances in the subject and to draw on a pool of I/O expertise so as to further the aims of the Institute's in-house economic research. Front Matter....Pages I-VI Introduction....Pages 1-5 A Multi-Country, Multi-Industry Historical View of International Trade Competitiveness....Pages 7-18 Austrian—Italian Interdependence: Some Linking Experiments....Pages 19-28 Proposals for the Linkage of CMEA-Country Models....Pages 29-42 The Inforum-IIASA Family of Input—Output Models: A Brief Historigal Review, Progress in 1984, and Future Prospects for Growth....Pages 43-50 The Potential Contributions of Mutually Consistent, Sectorally Disaggregated National Economic Models to Analyses of National Environmental Policies and Global Environmental Interdependence....Pages 51-60 Changes in the Structure of the Finnish Economy, 1970–1980....Pages 61-71 Patterns of Industrial Change in the Federal Republic of Germany. Part I: Flows of Manufacturing Output and Energy Input....Pages 73-78 On Modeling Structural Changes in Sectoral Wage Distribution in a Modern Input-Output Model....Pages 79-94 On Modeling Foreign Trade in an Input—Output Model of an Open Economy....Pages 95-104 Changes in Factor Input Coefficients and The Leontief Paradox....Pages 105-117 Some Experience in the Planning of Input Coefficients....Pages 119-127 Stability of Import Input Coefficients....Pages 129-139 Changes in Input Coefficients in the German Economy....Pages 141-150 Estimation of Input—Output Coefficients Using Neoclassical Production Theory....Pages 151-161 On the Endogenous Determination of Import Coefficients in an Input—Output Model: Theoretical and Practical Problems....Pages 163-172 Input—Output Techniques in the Japanese Econometric Model....Pages 173-181 Endogenising Input—Output Coefficients by Means of Industrial Submodels....Pages 183-192 Structural Change in the Belgian Economy....Pages 193-196 An Econometric Model of the Soviet Iron and Steel Industry....Pages 197-209 The Effects of Structural Changes on Danish Energy Consumption....Pages 211-220 The Role of Energy Intensity in Economic Development....Pages 221-224 Transformation Matrices in Input—Output Compilation....Pages 225-236 Seton’s Eigenprices: Comparisons between Post-War Holland and Hungary....Pages 237-248 An Attempt to Evaluate the Impact of Changes in Interindustry Interactions....Pages 249-259 Back Matter....Pages 261-264 Presentation Many economic problems, as equilibrium models, input-output analysis, rational behaviour, etc.