Economy-wide modelling focused on the agricultural and food sectors : an Irish case

Abstract

This thesis is a collection of four essays. The first one describes the construction of a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Ireland for the year 2005. The SAM includes 55 activities, 55 commodities, two factors of production (capital and labour), one account each for households, enferprises, government and investment/saving, three tax-related accounts (direct and indirect taxes and custom duties), a trade and transport margin account and three external sectors (UK, Rest of the EU and Rest of the World. A SAM linear model of the Irish economy is constructed and used to simulate the effect of shocks on the economy as an example of the use of multiplier analysis.