Disaggregated Economic Accounts

Asger Lau Andersen, Kilian Huber, Niels Johannesen, Ludwig Straub and Emil Toft Vestergaard

No 18441, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: We develop a system of disaggregated economic accounts. The system breaks down national accounting positions into bilateral flows between consistently defined groups of consumers (“consumer cells†), groups of producers (“producer cells†), the government, and the rest of the world. We disaggregate the full circular flow of money, including consumer spending, labor compensation, firm profits, trade in intermediates, foreign trade, and government transactions, while satisfying all national accounting identities. We implement the disaggregated system for small region-by-industry cells in Denmark and present stylized facts, including variation in domestic spending shares, local and urban bias in consumer spending, and a pattern of “triangular flows†across regions. Cell-level measures of “spending intensity†capture how much spending by a cell contributes to the income of cells experiencing unemployment after a shock. Using a general equilibrium model, we show that fiscal transfers are more effective in stimulating aggregate GDP when they target cells with high spending intensity on unemployed cells. Knowledge of the disaggregated economic accounts helps governments select more effective policies.

Keywords: disaggregated; economic; accounts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E01 E1 E2 E3 E6 F4 F6 G5 H3 R1 R2 R5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-09
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