Input Output 26 October 2011 1
Input Output 26 October 2011 1
Input-Output Analysis
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Outline
Input-Output Definitions
Simplest form of Input-Output Analysis (a quick
review)
Input-Output Analysis with Examples
Input-Output Multipliers
Power and Problems of Input-Output Analysis
Appendix 1: Mathematical Exercises on IO
Analysis with Matrices
Appendix 2: Derivation of IO Multipliers
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PART I:
Input-Output Definitions
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Input-Output Analysis
“The assessment of change in overall economic activity as
the result of some corresponding change in one or several
activities”.
“An economic analysis, in which the interdependence of an
economy's various productive sectors is observed by viewing
the product of each industry both as a commodity demanded
for final consumption and as a factor in the production of
itself and other goods” (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
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Input-Output Analysis
“A methodology for investigating production relations
among primary factors, intersectoral flows, final demands,
and transfers.”
“Input-output analysis considers inter-industry relations in
an economy, depicting how the output of one industry goes
to another industry where it serves as an input, and thereby
makes one industry dependent on another both as customer
of output and as supplier of inputs.“ (Wikipedia)
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Wassily Leontief
(1905 - 1999)
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Wassily Leontief
• Born in St. Petersburg, 1906
• Got Ph.D. in Econ in Berlin
• Moved to NYC in 1931
• Joined Harvard econ faculty in 1932
• Constructed first input-output tables of US
• Questioned the H-O Theory after WWII
• 1973 Nobel Prize
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Leontief Paradox
• Leontief reached a paradoxical conclusion that
the US --the most capital abundant country in
the world by any criterion-- exported labor-
intensive commodities and imported capital-
intensive commodities in 1947.
• This result has come to be known as the Leontief
Paradox.
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Input-Output Tables
• Leontief took the profession by surprise and
stimulated an enormous amount of empirical and
theoretical research on the subject.
• To perform the test, Leontief used the 1947 input-
output table of the US economy.
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Paradox continued
• He aggregated industries into 50 sectors, but only 38
industries produced commodities that enter the international
markets, and the remaining 12 sectors were created for
accounting identities and non-traded goods.
• He also aggregated factors into two categories, labor and
capital. He then estimated the capital and labor
requirements to produce:
• One million dollars' worth of typical exportable and
importable in 1947.
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Paradox continued
• The US seems to have been endowed with
more capital/worker than any other country in the
world in 1947.
• Thus, the HO theory predicts that the US exports would
have required more capital per worker than US imports.
• However, Leontief was surprised to discover that US
imports were 30% more capital-intensive than US
exports.
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Paradox continued…
• At first, Leontief was criticized on statistical grounds.
• Swerling complained that 1947 was not a typical year:
the postwar disorganization of production overseas was
not corrected by that time.
• In 1956 Leontief repeated the test for US imports and
exports which prevailed in 1951. In his second study,
Leontief aggregated industries into 192 industries. He
found that US imports were still more capital-intensive
than US exports.
• US imports were 6% more capital-intensive.
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Explanations
• Leontief himself suggested an explanation for
his own paradox. He argued that US workers
may be more efficient than foreign workers.
• Perhaps U.S. workers were three times as
effective as foreign workers.
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Higher US Productivity
• It means that the average American worker is
three times as effective as he would be in the
foreign country.
• Given the same K/L ratio, Leontief attributed
the superior efficiency of American labor to
superior economic organization and
economic incentives in the U.S.
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More than two factors
• More recent tests recognize that more than
two types of production factors are relevant.
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H-O works for
some US sectors…
• In general, trade patterns fit the H-O theory
reasonably well but certainly not perfectly.
• The US is relatively abundant in skilled labor, and
tends to be a net exporter of products that are
skilled-labor-intensive or technology-intensive,
including aircraft and medical instruments.
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Back to the definitions:
Input-Output Model
• An IO model is centered on the idea of inter-industry
transactions:
– Industries use the products of other industries to produce
their own products.
– For example - automobile producers use steel, glass,
rubber, and plastic products to produce automobiles.
– Outputs from one industry become inputs to another.
– When you buy a car, you affect the demand for glass,
plastic, steel, etc…
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Basic Input-Output Logic
Tires
Glass Plastic Other
Steel
Components
Automobile Factory
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From the Tire Individual
Producer’s Consumers
Perspective FINAL
School
Districts DEMAND
FOR TIRES
Tire Factory Trucking
Companies
INTER-
Automobile
MEDIATE
Factory DEMAND
FOR
TIRES
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Input-Output Analysis
The implicit assumption in economic base techniques is that
each basic sector job has a multiplier (or ripple) effect on
the wider economy because of purchases of non-basic goods
and services to support the basic production activity. (the
basic sector drives the non-basic sector)
However, we know that non-basic sector businesses
purchase non-basic goods and services and basic sector
businesses purchase Basic sector goods and services. There
are inter-industry linkages not contained within a basic
economic model (basically the multiplier model you know
from your intermediate macro course). The economy is
much more complex than the economic base techniques
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Input-Output Analysis
The central advantage of Input-Output analysis is that it
tries to estimate these inter-industry transactions and use
those figures to estimate the economic impacts of any
changes to the economy.
Instead of assuming a change in a basic sector industry
having a generalized multiplier effect, the IO approach
estimates how many goods and services from other sectors
are needed (inputs) to produce each dollar of output for the
sector in question. Therefore it is possible to do a much
more precise calculation of the economic impacts of a given
change to the economy.
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IO Conceptualization of the Economy
• The major conceptual step is to divide the economy into
“purchasers” and “suppliers”:
--Primary Suppliers: They sell primary inputs (labor, raw
materials) to other industries. Payments to these suppliers
are “primary inputs” because they generate no further
sales. (example: Households)
--Intermediate Suppliers: They purchase inputs for
processing into outputs they supply to other firms or to
final purchasers. (example: Automaker)
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IO Conceptualization of the Economy
• The major conceptual step is to divide the economy into
“purchasers” and “suppliers”:
--Intermediate Purchasers: They purchase outputs of suppliers
for use as inputs for further processing. (example:
Automaker)
--Final Purchasers: Purchase the outputs of suppliers in their
final form and for final use. (example: Households)
• Intermediate Suppliers and Intermediate Purchasers are the
same thing!
• Primary Suppliers and Final Purchasers may or may not be
the same entities. When they are the same (households),
these activities are understood as separate activities.
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Simplified Circular Flow View of The Economy
$$ Consumption Spending (Yi)
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PART II:
Input-Output Model for a Simple Economy
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Input-Output Model for a Simple Economy
• Consider a simple economy with two industries:
– a lumber industry
– a power industry
• Suppose that production of 10 units of power require 4 units
of power and 25 units of power require 5 units of lumber.
• 10 units of lumber require 1 unit of lumber and 25 units of
lumber require 5 units of power.
• If surplus of 30 units of lumber and 70 units of power
are desired, how much would be the gross production of
each industry.
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Creating a Technology Matrix
.4 .2
A
.2 .1
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The Gross Production Matrix
• The gross production matrix for the economy can be
represented by the column matrix:
x1
X
x2
• Where x1 is the gross production of power and x2 is the
gross production of lumber.
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The Technological Equation
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The Technology Equation
( I A) X D
• Is called the “technology equation”.
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Back to our Simple Economy
• Original Question : If surplus of
30 units of lumber and 70 units
of power are desired, find the
70
gross production of each
industry.
D
• In other words, what is the gross 30
production which would satisfy
the final demand D (70,30)?
• Find X
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Input-Output Model for a Simple Economy
( I A) X D
1
X ( I A) D
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Input-Output Model for a Simple Economy
1 0 .4 .2 .6 .2
I A
0 1 .2 .1 .2 .9
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Input-Output Model for a Simple Economy
1 0 .4 .2 .6 .2
I A
0 1 .2 .1 .2 .9
1 .9 .2 1 .9 .2
(.6 * .9) ((.2) * (.2)) .2 .6 .54 .04 .2 .6
.9 .2 1.8 .4
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.2 .6 .4 1.2 35
Input-Output Model for a Simple Economy
• We found that the inverse of I-A
is:
1 1.8 .4
• To find the amount to produce ( I A)
for the desired amount of .4 1.2
demand, we must multiply the 1
inverse of I-A and D: X ( I A) D
• Hence the gross production are : 1.8 .4 70 138
– Lumber : 64 units X
– Power : 138 units .4 1.2 30 64
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Input-Output Model for a Simple Economy
Another Example (3x3)
Output
0 .1 .01 .01
Input Agriculture Steel Coal
A .02 .13 0.2
Agriculture 0.1 0.01 0.01 .05 .18 .05
Steel 0.02 0.13 0.2
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Input-Output Model for a Simple Economy
Another Example (3x3)
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D 4552
911
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Input-Output Model for a Simple Economy
Another Example (3x3)
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Input-Output Model for a Simple Economy
Another Example (3x3)
• What is (I-A)-1?
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Closed Leontief Models
• The technological equation for a closed
Leontief model is:
( I A) X 0
• Where 0 is actually a column matrix of all
zeros.
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PART III:
Input-Output Analysis with Examples
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The Structure of IO Analysis
• The ultimate goal of the Input-Output Analysis technique is
to generate a Total Requirements Table that shows the flows
of dollars between industries in the production of output for
a given sector.
• To arrive at this final result, IO Analysis requires two earlier
steps:
1) Transactions table: Contains basic data on the flows of
goods and services among suppliers and purchasers during a
study year.
2) Direct Requirements table: Derived from the transactions
table, this shows the inputs required directly from different
suppliers by each intermediate purchaser for each unit of
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output that purchaser produces.
The Transaction Table and Direct Reqs Tables
The Transactions Table
(in thousands of units)
Intermediate Purchasers Final Purchasers Total
--Agriculture --Manufacturing --Households Sales (outputs)
Intermediate Suppliers
--Agriculture 10 30 60 100
--Manufacturing 5 10 35 50
Primary Suppliers
--Households 85 10 15 110
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The Total Requirements Table
Total Requirements Table
Every Unit in Final Demand of…
Requires Total Sales by Agriculture Manufacturing
Agriculture 1.15 0.86
Manufacturing 0.07 1.29
Households 1.00 1.00
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Case: Sugar industry
• In US, EU, Japan, the domestic price of your
sugar is more than double the world price.
• For the US, the net cost of protectionist policies
is close to $1bn per year.
• The sugar industry is not big, just 60,000 people
or 0.04% of total labor force.
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Sugar case
• But industry is well organized.
• The big sugar producers in Florida gain $65m per year
from the protectionist policies.
• To defend these profits, they donate money to the
main US political parties.
• There is also the American Sugar Alliance, which
lobbies for protection because farmers, its members,
benefit from it.
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Sugar case
• Small foreign sugar producers do not have much
power to influence US trade policy.
• To consumers, the loss is only $8 per person
per year, so they don’t bother
• If US shifted to free trade, employment in sugar
industry would probably decline only by 3,000
workers, who would find new jobs.
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Table: Protection to Maintain Jobs,
the United States
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Table: Protection to Maintain Jobs,
the European Union
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Figure 10.4 – Can an Import Barrier Be Better
Than Doing Nothing, and Is It the Best Policy?
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Input-Output Analysis as an
Accounting Framework
Input-Output is essentially an accounting framework
T - Account
Receipts Expenditures
P urchases of goods and services
Sales to Industries Local
Imported
Sales to Institutions
Exports Investment
P ayroll
Taxes
P rofits
Distributed
Retained
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Input-Output Analysis
Interindustry Transactions + Final Demands = Total Activity
Total Activity = f (Final Demand)
The economy is driven by consumption or final use
Industries contribute goods and services for final demand or
to those activities triggered by final consumption.
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Input-Output Analysis – Another Example
Payments 16 25 38 0 79
Total Outlay 36 37 44 79 196
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Input-Output Analysis – Another Example
I/O Tables - Direct Requirements
Direct Requirements Table
Purchasing Sectors
Processing Final Total
Sectors Agriculture Manufacturing Services Demand Output
Agriculture .27778 .16216 .04545
Manufacturing .11111 .10811 .06818
Services .16667 .05405 .02273
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Input-Output Analysis – Another Example
X=A*X+Y 65
Input-Output Analysis – Another Example
Subtract the direct requirements from both
sides of the equation:
X 1 - 0.278 * X 1 - 0.162 * X 2 - 0.045 * X 3 = Y 1
X 2 - 0.111 * X 1 - 0.108 * X 2 - 0.068 * X 3 = Y 2
X 3 - 0.167 * X 1 - 0.054 * X 2 - 0.023 * X 3 = Y 3
X-A*X=Y
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Input-Output Analysis – Another Example
Collect terms:
(1 - 0 .2 7 8 ) * X 1 - 0 .1 6 2 * X 2 - 0 .0 4 5 * X 3 = Y 1
-0 .1 1 1 * X 1 + (1 -0 .1 0 8 ) * X 2 - 0 .0 6 8 * X 3 = Y 2
-0 .1 6 7 * X 1 - 0 .0 5 4 * X 2 + (1 -0 .0 2 3 ) * X 3 = Y 3
1 0 0 .2 7 8 .1 6 2 .0 4 5 X1 Y1
0 1 0 - .1 1 1 .1 0 8 .0 6 8 * X2 = Y2
0 0 1 .1 6 7 .5 4 .0 2 3 X3 Y3
(1 -A ) * X = Y
(1 -A ) -1 * (1 -A ) X = (1 -A ) -1 * Y
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Input-Output Analysis – Another Example
Predictive Model:
DTIO = (I-A)-1
* DFD
Same as the simple example we covered in Part I.
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PART IV:
Input-Output Multipliers
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What are Multipliers?
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Three Types of Multipliers
Output
Employment
Income
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Three Levels of Multipliers
Type I Multipliers
Type II Multipliers
Type III Multipliers
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Type I Multipliers
Include direct or initial spending
Include indirect spending or businesses
buying and selling to each other
The multiplier is direct plus indirect effect
divided by direct effect
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Type II Multipliers
Includes Type I Multiplier effects
Plus household spending based on the
income earned from the direct and indirect
effects – the so called “induced effects”
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Type III Multipliers
Type III Multipliers are modified Type II
multipliers.
Therefore, Type III Multipliers also include the
direct, indirect, and induced effects.
Type III Multipliers adjust Type II Multipliers
based on spending patterns amongst different
income groups.
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Type I Multipliers include:
Direct Effects
Indirect (Business Spending) Effects
2 3 -1
(1 + A + A + A + ...) = (1 - A)
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Example: Direct Requirements Table
Purchasing Sectors
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Example: Total Requirements Table
(Direct + Indirect Coefficients Table)
Purchasing Sectors ($ million)
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Explaining the Health Sector
Type I Multiplier
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Type II Multipliers include:
Direct Effects
Indirect (Businesses) Effects
Induced (Households) Effects
Ag 10 6 2 2 16 36
Health 4 4 3 10 16 37
Services 6 2 1 7 28 44
Households 3 6 10 0 0 19
Final 13 19 28 0 0 60
Payments
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Explaining the Health Sector
Type II Multiplier
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Other Multipliers
• Employment Multipliers
Type I
Type II
Type III
• Income Multipliers
Type I
Type II
Type III
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Example -
Type I Employment Multiplier
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Example –
Type II Employment Multiplier
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Breakdown of
Type II Employment Multiplier -
Agricultural Sector
Total = 2.25
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Example –
Type I Income Multiplier
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Example -
Type II Income Multiplier
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Breakdown of
Type II Income Multiplier -
Agricultural Sector
Total = $2.50
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Caution When Using Multipliers
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PART V:
Input-Output Example USA
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A Regional Input-Output Model for the
US
Focuses on inter-industry transactions
Two suppliers: intermediate and primary
(labor)
Two purchasers: intermediate and final
Composed of:
Transaction table
Direct requirements table
Total requirements table
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Transaction Table
Start
Other Local
Plastics Electricity Chemicals Autos Instruments Rubber Industries
$0.21 of auto
$0.14 of auto $1 of additional industry
industry spending on spending on
spending on auto production other local
plastics re- initiates industries re-
enters: spending on: enters:
Plastics $0.14
$0.05
Electricity
$0.01
Chemicals $0.09
Autos $0.05
Instruments $0.11
Rubber $0.07
$0.17
Local Employees $0.02
$0.04
$0.25
Leakage $0.02 98
$0.04
Transaction Table
Start
Other Local
Plastics Electricity Chemicals Autos Instruments Rubber Industries
$0.21 of auto
$0.14 of auto $1 of additional industry
industry spending on spending on
spending on auto production other local
plastics re- initiates industries re-
enters: spending on: enters:
Plastics $0.14
$0.05
Electricity
$0.01
Chemicals $0.09
Autos $0.05
Instruments $0.11
Rubber $0.07
$0.17
Local Employees $0.02
$0.04
$0.25
Leakage $0.03 99
$0.04
Transaction Table
Start
Other Local
Plastics Electricity Chemicals Autos Instruments Rubber Industries
$0.21 of auto
$0.14 of auto $1 of additional industry
industry spending on spending on
spending on auto production other local
plastics re- initiates industries re-
enters: spending on: enters:
Plastics $0.14
$0.05
Electricity
$0.01
Chemicals $0.09
Autos $0.05
Instruments $0.11
Rubber $0.07
$0.17
Local Employees $0.02
$0.04
$0.25
Leakage $0.03 100
$0.07
Transaction Table Sample
Intermediate Purchasers
Primary Suppliers
Households 60 10 40 110
Total Outlay 100 60 60 110 330
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Direct Requirements Table
Derived from the transaction table
Shows inputs required from each supplier
by each intermediate purchaser.
“Direct coefficients” = each input purchase
in a column of the transaction table divided
by total purchases (column sum).
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Transaction Table Sample
Intermediate Purchasers
Primary Suppliers
Households 60 10 40 110
Total Outlay 100 60 60 110 330
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Direct Requirements Table
$1 of Output By
Requires Inputs
From Agriculture Manufacturing Services
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Total Requirements Table
Sales as Direct Inputs Second Round
Sales to Final
Purchasers To Agr. To Mfg To Serv. Total To Agr. To Mfg To Serv. Total
By Agriculture 200 (.1)(200) (.5)(100) (.08)(100) (.1)(78.33) (.5)(43.33) (.08)(75)
20 50 8.33 78.33 7.83 21.67 6.25 35.75
By Manufacturing 100 (.05)(200) (.17)(100) (.17)(100) (.05)(78.33) (.17)(43.33) (.17)(75)
10.00 16.67 16.67 43.33 3.92 7.22 12.50 23.64
By Services 100 (.25)(200) (.17)(100) (.08)(100) (.25)(78.33) (.17)(43.33) (.08)(75)
50.00 16.67 8.33 75.00 19.58 7.22 6.25 33.06
By Households (.6)(200) (.17)(100) (.67)(100) (.6)(78.33) (.17)(43.33) (.67)(75)
120.00 16.67 66.67 203.33 47.00 7.22 50.00 104.22
Totals - Indirect Rounds 196.67
By all Suppliers 400 400.00
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Impacts Broken Down
Direct impacts – the initial injection of new
economic activity, i.e., a new mfg plant
locates in a state.
Indirect impacts – the sum of inter-industry
purchases through all the rounds of
purchasing
Induced impacts – the sum of all impacts
associated with employee expenditures
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Multiplier
Direct
Output multiplier
Income multiplier
Employment multiplier
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The Power of IO Models
IO analysis is a popular and powerful analytical tool.
“The chief value of regional input-output analysis is in
its descriptive analytical power.” (Bendavid-Val, p.113)
“As a descriptive tool, input-output tables:
-present an enormous quantity of information in a
concise, orderly, and easily understood fashion;
-provide a comprehensive picture of the interindustry
structure of the regional economy;
-point up the strategic importance of various
industries and sectors;
-highlight possible opportunities for strengthening
regional income and employment multiplication.”
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The Problems with IO Analysis
Practical Issues
Data needs and complexity: IO models are tremendously complex and very
data hungry. This typically places these models in the hands of experts.
Theoretical Issues
Time/Data issues: Usually a single year’s data are used to develop the Total
Requirements Table. But 1) purchases may actually reflect a longer term
investment and 2) short term trends may impact the data.
Stability of the technical coefficients over time: Technology changes, prices
change, and demand changes, all affecting the coefficients in the Tot Reqs
Table. This can impact the results if the coefficients are “out of date”.
IO assumes a linear relationship between increasing demand for inputs
and outputs: This assumes away 1) externalities and 2) increasing/
decreasing returns to scale.
Industrial categorization: IO models still assume that each industry 1) has
a single, homogeneous production function and 2) each produces one
product. These assumptions do not reflect the real economy very well.
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Thank you.
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APPENDIX 1:
Mathematical Exercises on IO Analysis with Matrices
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Appendix I. Input-output analysis – an application of matrices.
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2. Constructing the input coefficients matrix
2. E.g.
Selling sector
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3. Using the input coefficients matrix
Use the vector x to denote inputs and d to denote final demand. Use A for
the input coefficients matrix:
a11 a1n
A
a a
n1 nn
Note also that for each good inputs are used in fixed proportions – there is
no possibility of substitution. The underlying assumption is that the
technology is Leontief (named after the man who invented input-output
analysis).
Input 2
ai2
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ai1 Input 1
3. Using the matrix
xi ai1 x1 ain xn di
Thus: x1 a11 a1n x1 d1
x a a x d
n n1 nn n n
Or x = Ax + d
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3. Using the matrix
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Exercise
Example. Suppose
0.2 0.1
A
0.3 0.1
and 2 units of good 1 and 1 unit of good 2 are available. What is the
resulting final demand for these two goods?
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4. Finding inputs given final demand
If (I-A)x = d then provided det (I-A) ≠ 0 then we can invert the matrix to find
x:
x = (I-A)-1d
Example. Suppose
0.25 0.4 0.2
A 0.25 0.1 0.4
0.25 0.2 0.1
Then 0.75 0.4 0.2
( I A) 0.25 0.9 0.40
0.25 0.2 0.9
Det (I-A) = 0.75(0.81-0.08)+0.4(-0.225-0.1)-0.2(0.05+0.225)=0.3715 so the
matrix is invertible.
x = (I-A)-1d
Then 2.01 1.10 0.94
1
( I A) 0.90 1.72 0.97
0.76 0.69 1.59
N.b. this inverse is done using the minverse command in excel, so it’s only
approximate.
So
2.01 1.10 0.94 1 5.16
1
x ( I A) d 0.90 1.72 0.97 2 5.31
0.76 0.69 1.59 1 3.72
Note that this multiplication is done using the mmult command in excel, so
it’s only approximate.
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Exercise
Suppose
0.2 0.0
A
0.1 0.2
What is (I-A)-1
1
What is x if d
2
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5. Final or primary inputs
Final inputs or primary inputs are those which are not produced goods
within the economic system being studied. They may include:
• Labour
• Land
• Capital (sometimes)
• Imports (sometimes)
Final inputs receive the final payments.
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5. Final or primary inputs
Since final inputs receive the final payments the requirement for primary
inputs is given by 1 – sum of the column entries in the input matrix
Buying sector IT goods Services Transport
Selling sector
IT goods 0.25 0.40 0.2
Services 0.25 0.10 0.40
Transport 0.25 0.20 0.1
Total 0.75 0.7 0.7
Final inputs 0.25 0.3 0.3
In the example, £1 of IT goods needs £0.25 input of primary inputs.
0.25
l 0.30
0.30
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5. Final or primary inputs
l x l ( I A) 1 d
In the example:
5.16
l ( I A) d 0.25 0.3 0.3 5.31 4
1
3.72
For instance if the primary input is labour then this means that £4 of labour
is required to produce a final demand consisting of £1 of good 1, £2 of
good 2 and £1 of good 3.
Feasibility then consists of comparing this demand for the primary inputs to
the available supply, L.
If l ( I A) 1 d L then a vector of final demands is feasible.
Here if L = 3, then the vector of final demands was not feasible.
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6. Summary.
• 4 definitions learnt:
– Input coefficient matrix
– Final demands
– Final payments
– Primary inputs
• 4 skills you should be able to do:
– Write down an input coefficient matrix given a table of input values.
– Determine input demand given a vector of final demands
– Determine final demands given a vector of inputs
– Find primary input demands and check their feasibility
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Lecture 14. Input-output analysis II.
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2. Example
1. A: I-A:
0.1 0.2 0.2 0.9 -0.2 -0.2
1 1.33
3. If d 0 then x = (I-A)-1d = 0.46
0 0.53
4. In other words, to meet final demand for 1 unit of the first good, 1.33
units of that good must be produced along with 0.46 units of good 2
and 0.53 units of good 3.
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3. Meeting demand
Question on feasibility:
Given any final demand vector d, is there an input vector x that will
produce d?
1. Obviously to be feasible no element of x can be negative
2. And no element can be infinite
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3. Meeting demand
Given that,
• x = d + Ad + A2d + A3d + ….= (I+A+A2+A3+…)d and
• All the elements of A are non-negative (so that all the elements of An
must be positive), then
Define S = (I+A+A2+A3+…)
Define Sn = (I+A+A2+A3+…An)
In other words S is the limit of Sn as n →∞.
1.
lim An 0
n
2. The principal minors** of (I-A) are all positive.
3. The dominant eigenvalue is less than 1.
(don’t know what an eigenvalue is? Given a matrix A it’s a solution, λ
to the equation I A 0 . The dominant eigenvalue is the one
with the largest absolute value)
1.
lim An 0
n
This is the condition we derived earlier. It’s simple, but may be hard to
calculate.
2. The principal minors** of (I-A) are all positive.
1. Given an nxn matrix, A, a principal matrix is found from A by
deleting k rows (e.g. rows 2, 5 and 7) and the same k columns (so
columns 2, 5 and 7). 0≤ k ≤ n-1. k is called the order of the
principal matrix.
2. The principal minor is the determinant of the relevant principal
matrix.
3. So for a 3x3 matrix, there are:
1. 1 0-order principal matrix (A itself)
2. 3 first order principal matrices
3. 3 second order principal matrices.
So you would need to check 7 determinants.
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4. Hawkins-Simons conditions -example
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4. Hawkins-Simons conditions –OK computers example
I-A = -2 -0.3
-0.1 0.8
Principal minors are, -2, 0.8 and -1.63. Obviously not all positive.
Note the basic point here: if it takes more than one unit of a good to
produce that good, then the Hawkins-Simons conditions can never be
satisfied.
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5. Employment multipliers
Often the number of jobs apparently lost as the result of a business closing
or the number of jobs created as the result of new business opening
seems far in excess of the number of jobs actually with the specific
company.
Input output analysis can be used to calculate the knock on effects of
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5. Employment multipliers
labour demand l x l ( I A) 1 d
Note first that this labour demand is in value terms
Consider a change in final demand of Δd, then the change in the value of
labour demand will simply be Δd (because of the circular flow of
payment within the economy and the fact that we assumed that there is
only one input).
DL l ( I A) 1 Dd
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How we calculated l (previous lecture)
Recall final inputs receive the final payments the requirement for primary
inputs is given by 1 – sum of the column entries in the input matrix
Buying sector IT goods Services Transport
Selling sector
0.25
l 0.30
0.30
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5. Employment multipliers
2.01
0.25 0.3 0.3 0.9 0.5 0.27 0.23
0.76
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5. Employment multipliers
2.01
0.25 0.3 0.3 0.9 0.5 0.27 0.23
0.76
Now l‘1 = 0.25, so from a 1 unit drop in demand we get
• I.e. for every one job lost due to the immediate effect of the drop in
demand, there are 3 jobs lost indirectly.
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Conclusion.
6. Exercise.
identify the direct and indirect effects on employment if Δd2 = 2
what is the employment multiplier for d2?
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Conclusion.
7. Summary
• 4 definitions learnt:
– Hawkins-Simons conditions
– Principal minors
• 4 skills you should be able to do:
– Identify the Principal minors of a square matrix
– Check that the Hawkins Simons are satisfied
– Calculate employment multipliers.
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APPENDIX 2:
Derivation of the multipliers
from transaction table to direct requirements table
via Leontief Inverse Matrix total requirements table
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Final demand
Input-Output table
consumption
investments
agriculture
industry
services
exports
total
agriculture 10 30 5 20 30 0 95
industry
agriculture 35 70 50 70 40 35 300
services
industry 15 50 70 30 70 5 240
services
imports 15 75 15
wages and taxes 10 25 80 Value added
profits 10 50 20
total 95 300 240
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Technological matrix; Cost
structure
agriculture
agriculture
industry
services
industry
services
agriculture 10 30 5 0.11 0.10 0.02
industry 35 70 50 0.37 0.23 0.21 A
services 15 50 70 0.16 0.17 0.29
imports 15 75 15 0.16 0.25 0.06
wages and taxes 10 25 80 0.11 0.08 0.33
profits 10 50 20 0.11 0.17 0.08
total 95 300 240 1.00 1.00 1.00
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Input-Output model
x=Ax+y x–Ax=y
(I - A) x = y
x = (I - A)-1 y
with
x vector of total production
A technological matrix
I unit matrix
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y vector of final demand
Leontief inverse
• (I - A)-1 ; multipliers
– Total inputs required for one unit of final
• A demand for all sectors
– First order (direct) inputs for one unit of
production
• A + A2 + A 3 + …
– First and higher order inputs for one unit of
production
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– Total inputs required for one unit of final
Leontief inverse matrix:
multipliers
A (I - A)-1
agriculture
agriculture
industry
services
industry
services
agriculture 0.11 0.10 0.02 1.21 0.18 0.09
industry 0.37 0.23 0.21 0.70 1.50 0.46
services 0.16 0.17 0.29 0.43 0.39 1.54
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