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On the impossibility of calculating the product technology in the Supply-Use model

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  • MESNARD, Louis de

    (LATEC - CNRS UMR 5118 - Université de Bourgogne)

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The Supply-Use input-output model of the SNA and Eurostat is examined. For the product-by-product IO tables, two hypothesis are possible: “product technology”, largely adopted (Eurostat A) and examined here, and “industry technology” (Eurostat B). One examines the calculability of the model. Negatives are an issue; (i) they are systematical in the inverse supply matrix: negative probabilities are impossible, Markov chains become impossible; (ii) negative flows are nonsense in symmetric matrix of coefficients or in inverse matrices. Matrices must be square what removes much of their interest. Same conclusions can be transposed to industry-by-industry IO tables under fixed-industry-sales-structure assumption (Eurostat C).

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  • MESNARD, Louis de, 2008. "On the impossibility of calculating the product technology in the Supply-Use model," LEG - Document de travail - Economie 2008-06, LEG, Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion, CNRS, Université de Bourgogne.
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    Keywords

    Input-Output; SNA; Eurostat; Supply-Use; Make-Use..;
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    JEL classification:

    • C67 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Input-Output Models
    • D57 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Input-Output Tables and Analysis

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