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Sectoral and Spatial Linkages in the EC Production Structure[Note 1. An earlier version of this paper was presented at ...]
Author(s) -
Dietzenbacher Erik,
Van Der Linden Jan A.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1467-9787
pISSN - 0022-4146
DOI - 10.1111/0022-4146.00053
Subject(s) - interdependence , production (economics) , table (database) , dimension (graph theory) , economic geography , contrast (vision) , computer science , econometrics , economics , microeconomics , data mining , mathematics , artificial intelligence , political science , pure mathematics , law
This paper provides a description of the interdependencies in the production structure of the European Community (EC). For the measurement of these interdependencies, a new variant of the hypothetical extraction method is introduced. In contrast to earlier adaptations of this method, our approach allows for a natural distinction of the interdependencies into backward and forward linkages. The empirical results are based on the 1980 intercountry input‐output table for seven countries of the EC. The nature of this type of data (viz. country‐specific sectors) enables us to focus on the sectoral as well as the spatial dimension of the interdependencies.