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Parsing Economic Technology Matrices by Triangular Decomposition

Wolff, Reiner

In: Computational Economics, 2005, vol. 25, no. 3, p. 275-279

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    Titre
    • Parsing Economic Technology Matrices by Triangular Decomposition
    Auteur
    • Wolff, Reiner. Department of Quantitative Economics, University of Fribourg, Ave de Beauregard 13, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Anglais
    Publié dans
    • Computational Economics, 2005, vol. 25, no. 3, p. 275-279. Kluwer Academic Publishers
    Autre version électronique
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:320805
    Summary
    An input-output technology with intermediate inputs is said to be productive or viable if it allows for positive net amounts of every commodity. Each division or sector will then contribute less than one unit of direct and indirect intermediate inputs to the making of one unit of its own output. Equivalently, the leading principal minors of the technology's associated Leontief matrix are all positive (Hawkins-Simon condition). We demonstrate that the minors can be checked efficiently in the course of a triangular decomposition of this matrix