Abstract
There are increasing numbers of published articles in the field of input–output analysis and modelling that use the GTAP input–output database; particularly, in relation to the estimation of carbon, energy and water footprints and the analysis of global value chains and international trade. The policy relevance of those topics is also increasing, thus calling for consistently linking these databases with official statistics. Although, so far, GTAP has been using their own classification and reconciliation methods, this paper develops a new conversion method for the EU that guarantees that the EU-GTAP database respects the new statistical standards and Eurostat official statistics. We recommend for future updates, a shift of the current GTAP classification of industries to the new official standard classifications to which countries are progressively moving to. Otherwise, the lack of matching official data would jeopardize the usefulness of such database. This method can be extended to other similar input–output databases with different classification schemes from the original input data sources.
Highlights
During the last 25 years, an increasing number of academic articles and policy reports applying input–output analysis and multisectoral modelling have used the GTAP databases
5 Conclusions This article describes the work carried out to produce a set of input–output tables for the 28 EU Member States for the reference year 2010 under the new European System of Accounts methodology (ESA10, complying with UN SNA08) and in compliance with GTAP submission requirements
The main novel contribution of this paper is the development of a new conversion method that consists of seven steps and converts the ESTAT input–output tables (IOTs) (NACE Rev.2) into GTAP full domestic and imports product by product IOTs (GTAP classification)
Summary
During the last 25 years, an increasing number of academic articles and policy reports applying input–output analysis and multisectoral modelling have used the GTAP databases. Country-, category- and userspecific allocation shares are computed from the relevant detailed statistics of imports, exports, gross outputs, labour costs, etc., and in the case of the user sectors, from the GTAP 9.1 database (which is based on the data available from the most recent year).
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