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Economic Systems Research

Volume 20, Issue 1, 2008

A Revision of the Tolerable Limits Approach: Searching for the Important Coefficients

A Revision of the Tolerable Limits Approach: Searching for the Important Coefficients

DOI:
10.1080/09535310801890714
Miguel ángel Tarancóna*, Fernando Callejasb, Erik Dietzenbacherc & Michael L. Lahrd

pages 75-95

Available online: 17 Mar 2008

Abstract

A wide range of approaches are available for classifying coefficients according to their importance to an economy. The ‘tolerable limits’ approach is one that has been extensively written about. Nevertheless, it seems unsuitable for assessing the overall importance of a coefficient to an economy, but instead appears to be rather well suited for determining how much a selling sector depends upon its customers. We therefore suggest two alternative approaches for measuring a sector's importance to an economy. The first is an application of the concept of elasticity based on Sherman and Morrison's (1950) formula. The second approach applies linear programming. We compare these various alternatives using the domestic IO tables of eight European countries.

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  • a Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
  • b Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  • c Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • d Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

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