Constructing a Social Accounting Matrix for Sardinia

Guido Ferrari, Giorgio Garau and Patrizio Lecca

Working Paper CRENoS from Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia

Abstract: Recently, the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) has been resurrected as a policy analysis tool and, in the last decade, attention has been paid to SAM multipliers, as well as to the use of the SAM as a benchmark for computable general equilibrium models. This paper constructs a SAM for the regional economy of Sardinia that can be used for policy evaluation and impact analysis. A mixture of approaches is used from simple compilation and decomposition methods to procedures for matrix estimations and matrix balancing.

Keywords: social accounting matrix; input-output; doubly constrained minimum information (mi) model; cross entropy; regional account system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E02 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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