From the System of National Accounts (SNA) to a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) - Based Model

From the SNA to a SAM-based Model, through an application to Portugal, systematizes a methodology for using the European System of National and Regional Accounts in the European Community of 1995 to construct numerical and algebraic versions of a Social Accounting Matrix that are in complete harmony with this. From both versions, scenarios are defined and analysed, arising from experiments that have been carried out into the (macro-)impacts of government policies regarding income distribution.
Close attention is paid to the corresponding response of the different macroeconomic aggregates, balances and indicators.
"It is to be hoped that this interesting monograph, representing painstaking and diligent research, will represent another useful stepping stone in the development of practical policy models based on the SAM approach" - from the Foreword by Jeffery Round

Contents

Foreword by Jeffery Round
Preface
Abstract (key words and JEL Classification)
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. The database
3. The model
4. Macroeconomic aggregates and balances
5. The structural indicators of the distribution and use of income
6. Experiments and scenarios with the distributional impact of government policies
7. Summary and concluding remarks
References
Appendixes
A. Portuguese National Accounts for 1995 (SNA Tables)
B. Identifying the items and balances of the various internal accounts of the SNA in the aggregate SAM
C. Portuguese Pilot-National Accounting Matrix (NAM) for 1995
D. Additional data
E. Sources and methodology by (macro-)SAM blocks of sub-matrices
F. Conventions and declarations