Research

Research

Throughout my entire career, input-output analysis has been my central research interest. My view on input-output, however, is much broader than that of many people. For example, I consider my work in industrial organization, in demography, and in matrix algebra as examples of applications in input-output. The following quotation from the Preface (written with Michael L. Lahr) in Wassily Leontief and Input-Output Economics succinctly represents my viewpoints.

“Today, the field of input-output analysis embraces any study that uses data in the format of (or somehow related to) input-output tables, employs an input-output technique as an analytical tool, or develops techniques for producing input-output accounts. … Input-output tables and techniques continue to be used widely to analyze all sorts of economic and policy issues. They are important in many subdisciplines of economics, such as economics of growth, economics of trade, development economics, energy and environmental economics, labor economics, regional science, structural economics, and national accounting. Input-output studies are important not just for academic economists but also for business analysts, policy makers and consultants.”

 

Publications

Books

- Wassily Leontief and Input-Output Economics , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004. (Edited with M.L. Lahr, xxi + 396 pp.)

- Changement Climatique, Flux Technologiques, Financiers et Commerciaux: Nouvelles Directions d’Analyse d’Entrée-Sortie , Presses de l’Univeristé du Québec, Sainte-Foy, 2004. (Edited with L.M. Cloutier and C. DeBresson, xv + 335 pp.)

- Input-Output Analysis: Frontiers and Extensions , Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001. (Edited with M.L. Lahr, xx + 509 pp.)

- Input-Output Analysis , Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1998. (Edited, with H.D. Kurz and C. Lager.) Vol. I: li+535 pp., Vol. II: xxviii+435 pp., Vol. III: xliii+523 pp.

- Perturbations and Eigenvectors: Essays . Academic Thesis, University of Groningen, 1991, X + 298 pp.

 

Articles in refereed journals

- Improved estimation of regional input-output tables using cross-regional methods. Regional Studies. (With X. Jiang and B. Los.) DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2010.522566

- Vertical specialization in an intercountry input-output framework. Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 3 (2010), 127-136.

- Responsibility and trade emission balances: an evaluation of approaches. Ecological Economics, 69 (2010), 2224-2232. (With M. Serrano.)

- Targeting the collection of superior data for the estimation of regional input-output tables. Environment and Planning A, 42 (2010), 2508-2526. (With X. Jiang and B. Los.)

- International convergence and divergence of material input structures: an industry-level perspective. Applied Economics, 41 (2009), 3337-3344. (With A.R. Hoen, B. Los and J.G. Meist).

- RAS-ing the transactions or the coefficients? It makes no difference. Journal of Regional Science, 49 (2009), 555-566. (With R.E. Miller.)

- Ownership relations in the presence of cross-shareholding. Journal of Economics, 95 (2008), 189-212. (With U. Temurshoev.)

- A revision of the tolerable limits approach: searching for the important coefficients. Economic Systems Research, 20 (2008), 75-95. (With M.A. Tarancón, F. Callejas and M.L. Lahr.)

- Economic integration: a systemic measure in an input-output framework. Economic Systems Research, 19 (2007), 397-408. (With D.P. Pal and D. Basu.)

- Consumption growth accounting. Review of Income and Wealth, 53 (2007), 422-439. (With O.J. de Groot and B. Los)

- Production chains in an interregional framework: identification by means of average propagation lengths. International Regional Science Review, 30 (2007), 362-383. (With I. Romero)

- Analysing Andalusian virtual water trade in an input-output framework. Regional Studies, 41 (2007), 185-196. (With E. Velázquez)

- An empirical examination of the pollution haven hypothesis for India: towards a green Leontief paradox? Environmental and Resource Economics, 36 (2007), 427-449. (With K. Mukhopadhyay)

- Multiplier estimates: to bias or not to bias?. Journal of Regional Science, 46 (2006), 773-786.

- Mixing oil and water? Using hybrid input-output tables in a structural decomposition analysis. Economic Systems Research, 18 (2006), 85-95. (With J. Stage.)

- Coefficient stability and predictability in input-output models: a comparative analysis for the Netherlands. Construction Management and Economics, 24 (2006), 671-680. (With A.R. Hoen.)

- Waste treatment in physical input-output analysis, Ecological Economics, 55 (2005), 11-23.

- Using average propagation lengths to identify production chains in the Andalusian economy, Estudios de Economía Aplicada, 23 (2005), 405-422. (With I. Romero Luna and N.S. Bosma.)

- More on multipliers. Journal of Regional Science, 45 (2005), 421-426.

- Analyzing materials and energy flows in an industrial district using an enterprise input-output model. Economic Systems Research, 15 (2003), 457-480. (With V. Albino and S. Kühtz.)

- Demand-pull and cost-push effects on labor income in Turkey, 1973-1990. Environment and Planning A, 35 (2003), 1785-1807. (With G. Günlük-Senesen.)

- Externalities of R&D expenditures. Economic Systems Research, 14 (2002), 407-425. (With B. Los.)

- Interregional multipliers: Looking backward, looking forward. Regional Studies, 36 (2002), 125-136.

- Structural decomposition analyses with dependent determinants. Economic Systems Research, 12 (2000), 497-514. (With B. Los.)

- The determinants of structural change in the European Union: A new application of the RAS method. Environment and Planning A, 32 (2000), 2205-2229. (With J.A. van der Linden.)

- Horizontal integration in the Dutch financial sector. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 18 (2000), 1223-1242. (With B. Smid and B. Volkerink.)

- Labour productivity in Western Europe (1975-1985): An intercountry, interindustry analysis. Journal of Regional Science, 40 (2000), 425-452. (With B. Los and A.R. Hoen.)

- Spillovers of innovation effects. Journal of Policy Modeling, 22 (2000), 27-42.

- Double deflation and aggregation. Environment and Planning A, 31 (1999), 1695-1704. (With A.R. Hoen.)

- Prices in the two Germanies. Journal of Comparative Economics, 27 (1999), 131-149. (With H.-J. Wagener.)

- Structural decomposition techniques: Sense and sensitivity. Economic Systems Research, 10 (1998), 307-323. (With B. Los.)

- Deflation of input-output tables from the user's point of view: A heuristic approach. Review of Income and Wealth, 44 (1998), 111-122. (With A.R. Hoen.)

- In vindication of the Ghosh model: A reinterpretation as a price model. Journal of Regional Science, 37 (1997), 629-651.

- Sectoral and spatial linkages in the EC production structure. Journal of Regional Science, 37 (1997), 235-257. (With J.A. van der Linden.)

- An algorithm for finding block-triangular forms. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 76 (1996), 161-171.

- On the interpretation of fixed input coefficients under aggregation. Journal of Regional Science, 35 (1995), 231-241. (With L. de Mesnard.)

- On the bias of muliplier estimates. Journal of Regional Science, 35 (1995), 377-390.

- The non-linear Perron-Frobenius theorem: Perturbations and aggregation. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 23 (1994), 21-31.

- The regional extraction method: Applications to the European Community. Economic Systems Research, 5 (1993), 185-206. (With J.A. van der Linden and A.E. Steenge.)

- A limiting property for the powers of a reducible, nonnegative matrix. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 4 (1993), 353-366.

- The measurement of interindustry linkages: Key sectors in the Netherlands. Economic Modelling, 9 (1992), 419-437.

- The LeChatelier-Samuelson principle revisited. Journal of Economics, 55 (1992), 277-296.

- Aggregation in multisector models: Using the Perron vector. Economic Systems Research, 4 (1992), 3-24.

- The sensitivity of input-output multipliers. Journal of Regional Science, 30 (1990), 239-258. [Reprinted in: H.D. Kurz, E. Dietzenbacherand C. Lager (eds) Input-Output Analysis, vol. 3 (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1998), 374-393.]

- Spatial activity allocation modelling: The dominant eigenvalue and its corresponding eigenvector. European Journal of Operational Research, 47 (1990), 115-122.

- Starshapedness and its applications to input-output models. Portugaliae Mathematica, 47 (1990), 215-226. (With G. Sierksma.)

- Perturbations of the Perron vector: Applications to finite Markov chains and demographic population models. Environment and Planning A, 22 (1990), 747-761.

- Seton's eigenprices: Further evidence. Economic Systems Research, 2 (1990), 103-123.

- The dynamics of population growth, differential fertility, and inequality: Comment. American Economic Review, 79 (1989), 584-587.

- On the relationship between the supply-driven and the demand-driven input-output model. Environment and Planning A, 21 (1989), 1533-1539.

- The implications of technical change in a Marxian framework. Journal of Economics, 50 (1989), 35-46. [Reprinted in: J.C. Wood (ed.) Piero Sraffa: Critical Assessments, vol. 3 (Routledge, London, 1995), 340-350.]

- Trade imbalance in an input-output model. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 10 (1988), 883-889.

- Perturbations of matrices: A theorem on the Perron vector and its applications to input-output models, Journal of Economics, 48 (1988), 389-412. [Reprinted in: J.C. Wood (ed.) Piero Sraffa: Critical Assessments, vol. 3 (Routledge, London, 1995), 283-304.]

- Estimation of the Leontief inverse from the practitioner's point of view, Mathematical Social Sciences, 16 (1988), 181-187.

- Capacity growth in a clay-clay vintage model, Economics Letters, 22 (1987), 257-261.

 

Chapters in books

- Physical input-output analysis and disposals to nature, in: S. Suh (ed.) Handbook on Input-Output Economics for Industrial Ecology (Springer, Heidelberg, 2009), 123-137. (With S. Giljum, K. Hubacek and S. Suh.)

- The decline in labor compensation’s share of GDP: a structural decomposition analysis for the US, 1982-1997, in: E. Dietzenbacher and M.L. Lahr (eds) Wassily Leontief and Input-Output Economics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004), 188-212. (With M.L. Lahr and B. Los.)

- The RAS structural decomposition approach, in: G.J.D. Hewings, M. Sonis and D. Boyce (eds.) Trade, Networks and Hierarchies (Springer, Heidelberg, 2002), 179-199. (With R. Hoekstra.)

- An intercountry decomposition of output growth in EC countries, in: M.L. Lahr and E. Dietzenbacher (eds.) Input-Output Analysis: Frontiers and Extensions (Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001), 121-142.

- Introduction, in: M.L. Lahr and E. Dietzenbacher Lahr (eds.) Input-Output Analysis: Frontiers and Extensions (Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001), 1-31. (With M.L. Lahr.)

- Analyzing decomposition analyses, in: A. Simonovits and A.E. Steenge (eds.) Prices, Growth and Cycles: Essays in Honour of András Bródy (MacMillan, London, 1997), 108-131. (With B. Los.)

- The nature of changes in the EU cost structure of production 1965-1985: An RAS approach, in: H. Armstrong and R. Vickerman (eds.) Convergence and divergence among European regions (Pion, London, 1995), 124-139. (With J.A. van der Linden.)

- Seton's eigenprijzen en het dimensieprobleem. In: J.L. Bouma, Th. Junius, S.K. Kuipers en L. Schoonbeek (eds.) Samenspel (Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen, 1991), 211-226.

- Seton's eigenprices: Comparisons between post-war Holland and Hungary, in: A. Smyshlyaev (ed.), Input-Output Modeling (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1985), 273-284. (W ith A.E. Steenge.)