Construction Of An East Asia Inter-regional Social Accounting Matrix: A Manual
This paper describes the construction of the East Asia inter-regional social accounting matrix (EA-IRSAM). The first section describes the basics of the social accounting matrix. The next section presents procedures to construct EA-IRSAM based on the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Power version 9 database. The last section describes two extensions of IRSAM analyses used in this paper, namely inter-regional constrained fixed price multiplier (IR-CFPM) and microsimulation of household income.