Technical Terms Input–Output Table: A matrix representation that details the transactions and economic flows between different sectors within an economy.

Earlier work (Sonis and Hewings, 1993, 1995; Sonis, Hewings and Miyazawa 1997a) has explored new ways of examining the structure of regional economies using input-output and social accounting systems.

Input-output analysis refers to the study of the particular effects that different sectors or industries have on the economy as a whole for a particular nation or region.

This is an analytical paper generalizing the standard input-output (IO) model on the one hand and the equally standard method of solving the model by means of power series expansion, on the other. The ...