A Strategy for Producing Hybrid Regional Input-Output Tables

INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS: FRONTIERS AND EXTENSIONS, Michael L. Lahr and Erik Dietzenbacher, eds., Palgrave, 2001

Posted: 1 Feb 2005

Abstract

Hybrid input-output models combine nonsurvey techniques for estimating regional direct requirements tables with superior data, which are obtained from experts, surveys, and other reliable sources (primary or secondary). Such data can be added at any stage of model construction. To date, hybrid model production has been defined only in very general terms. In a 1993 paper in the journal Economic Systems Research, I have pointed out directions that could prove fruitful in developing a more detailed approach.

I start the paper by searching for an approach that recognizes critical portions of input-output models that are ripe for survey work or the collection of other superior data. This search begins with a review of existing measures that identify sectors that are most critical to the accuracy of the Leontief inverse. I next compare these measures for their ability to predict sectors critical to the survey-based 1972 Washington State Input-Output Table.

In the third section, I combine the findings of the second section with that of other literature to develop a quasi-complete superior-data search strategy for producing hybrid regional input-output tables. In a fourth section, I test the strategy by employing the 1972 Washington State input-output table. Tests are of models both closed and open with respect to households. Following this, I conclude with implications of the findings.

Keywords: Input-output analysis, sensitivity analysis, regional model

JEL Classification: R15, C67

Suggested Citation

Lahr, Michael L., A Strategy for Producing Hybrid Regional Input-Output Tables. INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS: FRONTIERS AND EXTENSIONS, Michael L. Lahr and Erik Dietzenbacher, eds., Palgrave, 2001, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=658223

Michael L. Lahr (Contact Author)

Rutgers University ( email )

EJ Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy
33 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1982
United States
+01(848)932-2372 (Phone)

HOME PAGE: http://bloustein.rutgers.edu/lahr/

Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?

Paper statistics

Abstract Views
1,057
PlumX Metrics