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 (Q1079092)

The papers in the volume are grouped into five areas. In the first section called ''Linkage of input-output models and related problems'' problems of international trade competitiveness are examined, such as Austria-Italian interdependence, proposals for the linkage of CMEA-county models, the INFORUM-IIASA family of input-output models (a brief historical review, progress in 1984, and future prospects), the potential contributions of mutually consistent, sectorally disaggregated national economic models to analyses of national environmental policies and global environmental interdependence. In the second section named ''Secular changes in interindustry relations'' problems of changes in the structure of the Finnish economy (1970-1980), patterns of industrial change in the Federal Republic of Germany (flows of manufacturing output and energy input), of modeling structural changes in sectoral wage distribution in a modern input-output model, modeling foreign trade in an input-output model of an open economy, changes in factor input coefficients and the Leontief paradox are examined. In the third section called ''Changes in input structures'' the authors examine problems related to some experiences in the planning of input coefficients, stability of import input coefficients, changes in input coefficients in the German economy, estimation of input-output coefficients using neoclassical production theory, on the endogenous determination of import coefficients in an input-output model, and input- output techniques of Japanese econometricians. The fourth section named ''Changes in industrial structures'' examines problems about endogenising input-output coefficients by means of industrial submodels, structural change in the Belgian economy, an econometric model of the Soviet iron and steel industry, the effects of structural changes on Danish energy consumption, and the role of energy intensity in economic development. In the final fifth section ''Theoretical developments'' the authors examine problems of transformation matrices in input-output compilation, comparisons between the Netherlands and Hungary, an attempt to evaluate the impact of changes in interindustry interactions.