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Distributional Invariance And The Design Of Sams

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  • Graham Pyatt
  • Jeffery I. Round

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The decomposition of a matrix multiplier derived from a social accounting matrix (SAM) by Pyatt and Round [(1979). Accounting and Fixed Price Multipliers in a Social Accounting Matrix Framework. Economic Journal , 89, 850--873] has prompted a number of subsequent applications. In one of the earliest examples Stone [(1985). The Disaggregation of the Household Sector in the National Accounts, Chapter 8. In: G. Pyatt and J.I. Round (eds.) Social Accounting Matrices: A Basis for Planning . Washington, DC, The World Bank, 145--185] made the intriguing observation that the higher order (circular) effects of an exogenous change in final demand on the distribution of income and the structure of production were more or less independent of the sectoral composition of the initial injection. Our initial objective in this article is to explore this phenomenon of distributional invariance and to derive sufficient conditions for it. We then argue that these conditions have important implications for the design of SAMs, for the taxonomies they adopt and for levels of disaggregation, all of which strongly condition the quality of results that can be generated via subsequent modelling.

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  • Graham Pyatt & Jeffery I. Round, 2012. "Distributional Invariance And The Design Of Sams," Economic Systems Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(3), pages 251-273, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ecsysr:v:24:y:2012:i:3:p:251-273
    DOI: 10.1080/09535314.2012.665359
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    1. Susana SANTOS, 2016. "The Informal Aspects of the Activity of Countries Studied Through Social Accounting and Socio-Demographic Matrices," Journal of Economic and Social Thought, KSP Journals, vol. 3(1), pages 49-78, March.
    2. Emerta A. Aragie, 2024. "The Impact of Large-scale Agricultural Investments in Low-income Economies," Journal of Development Policy and Practice, , vol. 9(2), pages 199-218, July.
    3. Susana Santos, 2013. "Socio-Economic Studies with Social Accounting and Sociodemographic Matrices. An application to Portugal," Working Papers Department of Economics 2013/16, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa.
    4. Dario Debowicz, 2016. "A social accounting matrix for Iraq," Journal of Economic Structures, Springer;Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS), vol. 5(1), pages 1-19, December.

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