Estimation of a social and environmental accounting matrix

En este trabajo presentamos una metodología para desarrollar un sistema de medición estadístico, económico y medioambiental, híbrido, ésto es, que integra los datos físicos de las estadísticas oficiales sobre recursos de agua y emisiones de gases a la atmósfera, con las estadísticas económicas que reflejan el flujo circular de la renta. Este sistema se aplica a la realidad española en el año 2000. A través de una ampliación de la lógica inherente a las tablas Input-Ouput y a la matriz de contabilidad social, obtenemos la matriz de contabilidad social medioambiental que incluye las cuentas ambientales (SAMEA). El interés de tener esta matriz de híbrida, con estadísticas económicas y ambientales integradas, es doble, tanto por su interés descriptivo como analítico.marco input-output, matrices de contabilidad social, medioambiente, técnicas de actualización, metodología de entropía cruzada.

The rural-urban spillovers of EU structural policies in Cordoba, Spain

The European Union's Regional Policy and Common Agricultural Policy share a common objective of balanced regional development; in practice, they are implemented in very distinct ways as regional policies mainly focus their strategy on urban development while the CAP Pillar 2 is based on a program which is specifically targeted at rural areas. Understanding the origins of economic growth in rural and urban areas is at the core of the debate on territorial convergence and the future of both policies. This paper assesses the impacts of Regional and Rural Development Programmes on the Spanish economy of Cordoba using a bi-regional CGE model in order to shed light on their capacity to fulfill the objective of balanced regional development.JRC.J.4-Agriculture and Life Sciences in the Econom

Ex-ante analysis of the regional impacts of the common agricultural policy:a rural-urban recursive dynamic CGE model approach

A recursive dynamic regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model is developed to assess the economic impacts of two Common Agricultural Policy scenarios in six NUTS-3 regions of the European Union. The main goal of the analysis is to assess the scenario effects (economic, change in production, prices, employment) in the rural and urban parts of these regions as well as on the different sectors. The two scenarios analyzed are related to a 30% reduction in Pillar 1 (market measures and direct support to farmers) support and the introduction of an EU-wide flat rate level of Pillar 1 support with a 45% decrease in Pillar 2 (Rural Development Policy) funds. Results show that the overall GDP effects are not significant, due to the relatively low importance of both the agricultural sector and Common Agricultural Policy spending in the regional economies. However, impacts on the agricultural sector are quite important and differ according to the nature of the policy shock. Also, the structural characteristics of each case study drive the results regarding the rural-urban and sectoral spill-overs, including impacts on region-specific agricultural activity.JRC.J.4-Agriculture and Life Sciences in the Econom