Input-Output Analysis

MICHAEL LAHR is Assistant Research Professor in the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers, The State University. He has recently co-edited, with Ronald E. Miller, Regional Science Perspectives in Economics: A Festschrift in Memory of Benjamin H. Stevens. - ERIK DIETZENBACHER is Associate Professor of International Economics and Business, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and is currently editor of Economic System Research. His publications include the three-volume set Input-Output Analysis, co-edited with Heinz D. Kurz and Christian Lager, and numerous articles in economic journals. AE(00): Forewords by WALTER ISARD and ROBERT E. KUENNE

• Forewords; W.Isard & R.E.Kuenne Preface; M.L.Lahr & E.Dietzenbacher Introduction; E.Dietzenbacher & M.L.Lahr FRONTIERS Interindustry Linkages: The Flow Network of a Physical Input-Output Tables (PIOT): Theory and Application for Germany; G.Strassert Feedback Effects in Interregional Input-Output Models: What Have We Learned?; J.I.Round Feedbacks in Input-Output Systems: Impacts, Loops and Hierarchies; M.Sonis & G.J.D.Hewings Changes in the Structure of the Washington State Economy: 1963-1987, An Investigation of the Patterns of Inputs and the Mix of Outputs; W.B.Beyers An Intercountry Decomposition of Output Growth in EC Countries; E.Dietzenbacher Interaction Terms and Structural Decomposition: An Application to the Defense Cost of Oil; S.D.Casler Interregional Trade, the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek Theorem, and Leontief's Paradox; S.He & K.Polenske Perfect Aggregation of Industries in Input-Output Models; J.A.Olsen Export Base Theory and Input-Output Systems: Some Formal Results; A.Guccoine& W.J.Gillen A Strategy for Producing Hybrid Regional Input-Output Tables; M.L.Lahr EXTENSIONS Structural Development of Germany, Japan and US, 1980-1990: A Qualitative Analysis Using MFA (Minimal Flow Analysis); H.Schnabl On Boolean Topological Methods of Analysis; L.de Mesnard The Question of Finding Industrial Clusters Revisited: A Qualitative Perspective; F.Aroche-Reyes Influence Graphs Theory Applied to Structural Analysis; R.Lantner Structural Change and Fundamental Economic Structure: The Case of Australia; G.R.West Comparative Stability Analysis of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Input-Output Models: Toward an Index of Economic 'Maturity'; R.Bon The Input-Output Structural Decomposition Analysis of 'Flexible' Production Systems; C.Milana Low Productivity Regions, Wage Differentiation and Unemployment: Some Neglected Feedbacks; G.Cella The Spatial Decomposition of a Bi-regional Extended Input-Output Model; J.H.Dewhurst & M.Madden The Puget Sound Forecasting Model: A Structural Time-Series Analysis Model of Ron Miller's Hometown; R.S.Conway Jr. Evaluating the Regional Impact of the Formation of the European Monetary Union: Econometric vs. Input-Output and CGE Frameworks; F.Mazzola Income Distribution Effects of Government Transfers: Sensitivity to Closure Rules in Input-Output and Computable General Equilibrium Approaches; A.Z.Rose, K.Hanson & P.C.Li Index