IO table containing industries and size-classes; functional design document

One of the data-inputs for simulations of EIM's PRISMA-model is the input output (IO) table for the base-year of the simulation. PRISMA is an economic macro-sector model designed to produce results on SMEs in the Netherlands consistent with those produced by the current macro-sector model of CPB, Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. PRISMA is used for forecasting, scenario building and what-if analyses with respect to government policies and exogenous shocks. Its time horizon is 3-25 years. At present, the Dutch statistical institute does not publish an IO-table that simultaneously distinguishes firms by sector and firm size. As such a distinction is required for PRISMA it should be constructed separately. This paper presents the design of the table.

Siclass: forecasting the European enterprise sector by industry and size-class

SICLASS (Size Classes) is een econometrische model gericht om de huidige omvang en structuur van�Europese midden en kleinbedrijven te bepalen. Daarnaast wordt het model gebruikt om macro-economische scenario’s te� maken voor de toekomst. Tevens kunnen ook andere scenario’s ontwikkeld worden om de invloed van diverse macro-economische beleidsmaatregelen te analyseren.

Estimating missing data within an accounting and aggregation framework

Onderzoek naar de methoden voor de berekening van ontbrekende data. Het onderzoek poogt een antwoord te geven op de vraag hoe schattingen geprepareerd kunnen worden voor ontbrekende data in een datamatrix.

Measuring economic effects of stimulating business R&D

Behandelt de economische effecten van subsidies voor research & ontwikkeling aan bedrijven. De impact van die extra subsidies op middellange termijn wordt geschat met behulp van het PRISMA-model SCALES.

An Optimization Procedure for Estimating the Stock of Capital: Application to Ten Production Sectors of Dubai

This paper develops and optimization procedure for estimating the capital stock using time series data on GDP, labor, and gross fixed capital formation. By minimizing the gap between observed and attainable GDP, subject to the constraint that capital grows according to the perpetual inventory formula, and GDP is related to employment and the capital stock through the Cobb-Douglas production function with constant returns to scale; the optimization procedure yields estimates of the capital stock, the production function parameters, the rate of capital retirement and depreciation, and the rate of total productivity growth.Stock of Capital, Production Sectora, Dubai, MENA countries, UAE