Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Social accounting: essays in honour of Sir Richard Stone
- 2 A SAM for Europe: social accounts at the regional level revisited
- 3 Interregional SAMs and capital accounts
- 4 Social accounting matrices and income distribution analysis in Kenya
- 5 Structure of the Bangladesh interregional social accounting system: a comparison of alternative decompositions
- 6 Decompositions of regional input–output tables
- 7 Consistency in regional demo-economic models: the case of the northern Netherlands
- 8 A CGE solution to the household rigidity problem in extended input–output models
- 9 Operationalising a rural–urban general equilibrium model using a bi-regional SAM
- 10 Combatting demographic innumeracy with social accounting principles: heterogeneity, selection, and the dynamics of interdependent populations
- 11 A micro-simulation approach to demographic and social accounting
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - A SAM for Europe: social accounts at the regional level revisited
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Social accounting: essays in honour of Sir Richard Stone
- 2 A SAM for Europe: social accounts at the regional level revisited
- 3 Interregional SAMs and capital accounts
- 4 Social accounting matrices and income distribution analysis in Kenya
- 5 Structure of the Bangladesh interregional social accounting system: a comparison of alternative decompositions
- 6 Decompositions of regional input–output tables
- 7 Consistency in regional demo-economic models: the case of the northern Netherlands
- 8 A CGE solution to the household rigidity problem in extended input–output models
- 9 Operationalising a rural–urban general equilibrium model using a bi-regional SAM
- 10 Combatting demographic innumeracy with social accounting principles: heterogeneity, selection, and the dynamics of interdependent populations
- 11 A micro-simulation approach to demographic and social accounting
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Introduction
This purpose of this chapter is to examine the appropriate structure, and the prospects for constructing, a SAM for Europe. The chapter is essentially an exercise in regional accounting and is intended to readdress the issues raised in the seminal paper on the subject by Stone (1961a) which was aimed primarily at regions defined at the subnational level. Supra-national regional systems such as Europe are rather different. Furthermore, in addition to the regional accounting issues, it also provides an opportunity to incorporate some of the features of the SAM approach more directly.
A ‘SAM for Europe’ is an intriguing concept in a number of respects. In a most obvious sense Europe cannot be considered as a fixed geographical region; its boundaries are continually changing. Even so there may be several ways in which a European SAM might be viewed. One way might be to consider the European region as a whole and investigate the possibilities of assembling a data framework better to reflect, say, Europe's position vis-à-vis the rest of the world. A second approach might be to focus on the existence of the European single market and hence ascertain ways in which the economies of the member states interact one with another.
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- Social and Demographic Accounting , pp. 15 - 40Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995
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