Social accounting matrices and applied general equilibrium models

Timothy Kehoe

No 563, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Abstract: To illustrate the use of social accounting matrices (SAMs) in applied general equilibrium (GE) modeling, we use an aggregated SAM for the Spanish economy to calibrate a simple applied GE model. The idea is to construct artificial people - households, government, and a foreign sector - who make the same transactions in the equilibrium of the model economy as do their counterparts in the data. This calibration procedure can be augmented, or partially substituted for, by statistical estimation of key parameters. We show the usefulness of such a model by presenting the results of a comparative exercise that mimics the policy changes that took place in Spain during its 1986 integration into the European Community. Sub-sequent data shows the model results to be remarkably accurate, especially if we account for other major shocks affected the Spanish economy in 1986.

Keywords: Equilibrium; (Economics); -; Mathematical; models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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Published in Applied economics and public policy (Vol. 63, 1998, pp. 59-87)

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