Submission Procedure

The WPIOX archive has been set up under the auspices of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA). Its aims and scope are the same as for the IIOA’s official journal Economic Systems Research. This implies that we welcome any working paper in the field of input-output economics as defined in its broadest sense. That is, studies that use data collections that are in the format of (or are somehow related to) input-output tables and/or employ input-output type of techniques as tools of analysis. Authors are invited to submit any paper in input-output economics, whatever

• the theoretical background (e.g. classical, neo-classical, Walrasian, Keynesian, Ricardian, Marxian, Sraffian)
• the topic (e.g. growth, welfare, interdependence, (dis)equilibrium, prices)
• the policy issue (e.g. income distribution, employment, investments, migration, energy consumption, environment)
• the analytical framework (e.g. static, comparative static, dynamic, structural, spatial, open versus closed)
• the unit and level of analysis (e.g. enterprises, industries, metropolitan areas, regions versus nations, groups of countries, the world)
• the object of analysis (e.g. goods and services, materials in physical quantities, prices, innovations, patented inventions, citations, information, people)
• the technical focus (e.g. economic theory, applied mathematics, data collection and compilation of input-output tables, including sources, concepts, conventions).

If you would like to contribute to the WPIOX archive, please send an e-mail message to Erik Dietzenbacher (h.w.a.dietzenbacher(at)rug.nl) or Bent Thage (bth(at)dst.dk). Use as subject the phrase “WPIOX-submission” and indicate in your message up to three of the fifteen topics under which you would like to have your paper filed. Include an abstract of up to 150 words in the body of your mail message. The full text of your paper should be attached to the e-mail message, preferably in so-called pdf-format.

If your paper is a working or discussion paper with an institution (university department, research institute, or governmental organization, for example), mention clearly the series title and the number (e.g. “SOM Research Memorandum 99C12, University of Groningen”). The users of the archive may cite your paper by using either the original series title and number or as WPIOX **-***.

Upon receipt, your paper will be briefly reviewed by us, in order to see whether the paper fits within the scope of the archive as outlined above. Your paper is not peer-reviewed and inclusion in the archive does not depend therefore on its perceived quality, unlike a publication in a journal. It should also be emphasized that submission of a paper to the archive neither prevents you from submitting it to a journal, nor that it automatically implies a submission to the IIOA’s  official journal Economic Systems Research.

Once a month, we will update the archive and include the newly accepted working papers. Each paper is assigned a code (**-***), which does not prevent you or others from using your department’s working paper series code when citing your work. You are allowed to submit revised versions of your paper. In that case, please obey the same rules as if sending a new paper, but indicate clearly the WPIOX-code we originally assigned to your paper. The revision will be stored under the same code, i.e. it will replace the earlier version. Finally, we will remove the full text of an archived working paper upon receipt of a message which states that your paper (with code) has been published as an article in a journal or contribution to an edited volume. Please mention in which journal (+ volume and page numbers) or edited volume (+ editors, page numbers and publisher) the paper appeared.