decompr (version 4.5.0)

decomp: Interface function for decompositions

Description

This function runs the decomposition. NOTE: the default method is now "leontief", please specify method="wwz" explicitly for Wang-Wei-Zhu. See http://qua.st/decompr/decompr-v2/ for more information.

Usage

decomp(x, y, k, i, o, v, method = c("leontief", "wwz"), verbose = FALSE,
  ...)

Arguments

x

intermediate demand table, it has dimensions GN x GN (G = no. of country, N = no. of industries), excluding the first row and the first column which contains the country names, and the second row and second column which contain the industry names for each country. In addition, an extra row at the end should contain final demand.

y

final demand table it has dimensions GN x MN, excluding the first row and the first column which contains the country names, the second column which contains the industry names for each country, and second row which contains the five decomposed final demands (M). #' @param k is a vector of country of region names

k

vector or country or region names

i

vector of sector or industry names

o

vector of final outputs

v

vector of value added, optional. If this vector is not specified, value added will be calculated as gross output - intermediate consumption

method

user specified the decomposition method

verbose

logical, should timings of the calculation be displayed? Default is FALSE

...

arguments to pass on the respective decomposition method

Value

The output when using the WWZ algorithm is a matrix with dimensions GNG*19. Whereby 19 is the 16 objects the WWZ algorithm decomposes exports into, plus three checksums. GNG represents source country, using industry and using country.

Details

Version 2 introduces several important changes, the default method is now leontief, which means that wwz has to be specified explicitly. Furthermore, the input object have a different structure, see the information below for details.

References

Timmer, Marcel P. (ed) (2012), "The World Input-Output Database (WIOD): Contents Sources and Methods", WIOD Working Paper Number 10, downloadable at http://www.wiod.org/publications/papers/wiod10.pdf

Wang, Zhi, Shang-Jin Wei, and Kunfu Zhu. Quantifying international production sharing at the bilateral and sector levels. No. w19677. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# load leather example data
data(leather)

# explore the data set
ls()

# explore each of the objects
inter
final
countries
industries
out

# use the direct approach

# run the Leontief decomposition
decomp(inter,
       final,
       countries,
       industries,
       out,
       method = "leontief")

# run the WWZ decomposition
decomp(inter,
       final,
       countries,
       industries,
       out,
       method = "wwz")
# }