Methods of Interregional and Regional Analysis

Part 1 The setting and introduction. Part 2 Location analysis for industry and service trades - comparative cost and other approaches: industry location principles and the comparative cost approach; service trades location principles; spatial and location measures; geographic information systems (GIS); concluding remarks. Part 3 Regional and interregional input-output analysis: introduction; a single region; two or more regions - theinterregional input-output (IRIO) system; two or more regions - the multiregional input-output (MRIO) system; constructing models from less then perfect data sets; fusion of comparative cost and input-output - editorial remarks. Appendices: the commodity-industry approach in input-output models; additional linkage measures from input-output data; data for the two-region IRIO numerical example; the RAS approach to updating or regionalization of input-output tables; mathematical appendix; elements of matrix algebra. Part 4 Regional and spatial econometric analysis: econometric models and their uses; some underlying statistical theory; some problems of estimation; other relevant econometric models; spatial econometrics; the 'art' of econometric model building; fusion of econometrics and input-output - some editorial remarks. Part 5 Programming and industrial and urban complex analysis: a simple linear programming problem - a graphic solution; basic aspects of nonlinear programming; industrial complex analysis as interregional programming; urban and other complexes; concluding remarks. Part 6 Gravity and spatial interaction models: a simple probability point of view; definition and measurement of mass; definitions and measures of distance; functional forms for spatial separation; constrained gravity (spatial interaction) models; calibration, tests and applications of spatial interaction models; conclusion. Part 7 Social accounting matrices and social accounting analysis: the overall conceptual framework; classification and desegregation of accounts; data requirements in the construction of a SAM; SAM multiplier analysis and extensions; studies and applications based on the SAM. Part 8 Applied general interregional equilibrium: a highly simplified model introduction distance and transport inputs as basic variables; transport inputs, location and trade in a two-country world; the scaffolding of a core social accounting matrix for an applied general interregional equilibrium (AGIE) model; problems and questionable characters of the basic assumptions of standards applied general equilibrium models; some seminal contributions by regional scientists to the development of an applied general interregional (AGIE) model for a pure space economy; concluding remarks. Appendix: the basic functions, exogenous magnitudes, variables and equations of the two nation/three region model. Part 9 Interregional and spatial microsimulation. (Part contents).