Visualizing Input-Output Data: Some New Techniques Applied to the Amazon Region
Since the initial input-output models conceived by Leontief in the
1930s, the input-output theory has gone through a lot of development at the theoretical
as well as applied point of view. However, despite all the progress, there is still
one point that needs further consideration into the analysis, i.e., how to visualize, and
to analyze, in an easy way the vast amount of data and information contained into input-
output systems. In this paper two different ways to look at input-output data are
presented, i.e., landscapes and electroeconograms. The examples are conducted using
as the main source of data an interregional input-output system consisted of 10 regions
(nine Amazon states and the Rest of Brazil region) constructed for the year of
1999 by Guilhoto et al. (2002) for the Amazon Bank (BASA).
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