Josef Richter, Bert Steenge and Rossella Bardazzi

We are excited to welcome you to the upcoming 15th IIOA Webinar scheduled for Tuesday, June 4th, 2024, from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM CET. We would like to extend our gratitude to Dr. Josef Richter, Dr. Bert Steenge, and Dr. Rossella Bardazzi for hosting this webinar entitled “Towards an IO (Historical) Archive”.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY & RESEARCH BACKGROUND

Dr. Josef Richter, now retired, spent most of his professional life in IO - statistics and empirical IO - analysis. Thanks to the help of Clopper Almon and a stay at the University of Maryland, the first IO model of the INFORUM type for Austria has already been created 1972. Josef had teaching obligations at the Universities of Innsbruck and Linz from 1983 onwards. His work has focused mainly on the empirical foundation of IO - analysis and on the problematic relationship between the producers of data and empirical economists. He has contributed to many IIOA conferences; his publications cover very different applications of input-output techniques. Josef was a founding member of the International Input-Output Association and was its first treasurer, serving from 1988 to 2006.

Dr. Bert Steenge studied at the University of Groningen, Faculty of Economics, specializing in Economics/Econometrics. He defended his PhD thesis in 1980. In 1986 he became Full Professor of Economics at the University of Twente, Faculty of Public Administration and Public Policy. In 2007 he returned to his ‘Alma Mater’, the University of Groningen, as emeritus. Bert has had a life-long interest in I-O modelling because of its versatility and deep roots, which originated in pre-revolutionary France and now cover a wide range of topics. His work has focused mainly on the theoretical side of topics in I-O, and he has contributed to many IIOA conferences, as well as being involved in related activities. His publications cover several fields and subfields of present-day I-O modelling. Bert served as a Council member from 2007 to 2015.

Dr. Rossella Bardazzi is associate professor of economics at the University of Florence, Italy. She has devoted her research activity to the theoretical and empirical analysis of macroeconometric and microsimulation models. She belongs to the international research network of macroeconometric models INFORUM (Interindustry Forecasting at the University of Maryland) and has contributed to the development of the Italian Multisectoral model (INTIMO). Her research interests include the development of multisectoral and microsimulation models, bilateral trade models, demand systems for household consumption, energy demand of enterprises and households. Rossella has served as a council member of the International Input-output Association (IIOA) from 2018 to 2023.

Abstract: The project to create an IO (historical) Archive was initiated to preserve relevant material on the early stages of IO analysis that would otherwise be lost forever, and to make these documents easily accessible to the IIOA membership. In this context, IO should be seen in a wider sense to include related areas such as regional economics, environmental economics, mathematical economics, and history of economic thought, as well as various satellite accounts extending the IO framework.

The aim of this webinar is to present the guiding principles and features of the project, and to report what has been achieved. The main milestones so far have been the creation of an efficient infrastructure (a web database) to make the material available to IIOA members, and the integration of more than 600 documents into this system. At the moment, many of the contributions to the IO conferences of 1971 to 1995 are already accessible. The focus of the webinar will be on the presentation of how the information already available in the Archive can be utilised. Various search options will be shown, and we will show how these documents can be accessed. The final part of the webinar will be devoted to outline possible next steps.

Anne Owen, Associate Professor at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, UK

Dr Anne Owen is an Associate Professor at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, UK. Anne’s research focusses on the environmental impacts associated with household consumption, how different types of households contribute to climate change and what actions households can take to reduce their impact. For the past twelve years Anne has calculated the UK’s consumption-based emissions account for UK Government and this is now an Official Statistic reported annually. Anne’s work has been published widely with recent highlights including assessing carbon footprints from large scale financial transaction data and being quoted widely in a Guardian article on high impact lifestyles.

Dr Anne Owen reflects on a decade providing outputs from consumption-based accounting to National and Local Government, businesses and the third sector. She identifies the mismatch between what MRIO databases can calculate and what is required by policymakers as evidence for Net Zero targets and shares experiences of recent work advising how MRIO carbon multipliers can be (mis)used in calculating Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions for businesses.

Juan Carlos Ruiz-García

Dr. Juan Carlos Ruiz-García is a Macroeconomist with both theoretical and empirical interests. He received my Ph.D. in Economics and Government from Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI). He is currently an Economic Analyst of the Input–Output Global Value Chain and Productivity Team (IOGVCPROD) of the Knowledge for Finance, Innovation, and Growth Unit (B7) of the Joint Research Centre in Sevilla (JRC-Sevilla) of the European Commission. His main research focuses on Firm Dynamics with a special interest in understanding how economic frictions, e.g., financial frictions, adjustment costs, affect firms in the economy, and as a result, aggregate productivity and output. He also works in Development Economics, particularly understanding the determinants of Poverty and Inequality both across and within countries.

Cuihong Yang, Professor at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the University of CAS

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Cuihong Yang, a professor at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the University of CAS. Cuihong will be sharing her insights in a talk titled: "Identify the host country of processing export". The international relocation of processing export is regarded as a bellwether of the global production reconfiguration. However, directly identifying the host economies of processing export is challenging because of the lack of data. In her talk, Cuihong will discuss how to capture the industrial relocation of processing activities by combining the input-output model and optimization method.

Angelo Jose B. Lumba, Senior Researcher, Asian Development Bank

Angelo Jose B. Lumba is a senior researcher for the Asian Development Bank specialising on input-output analysis and global value chains. Angelo is also a data scientist for the Pulse Lab of the UNDP Philippine Country Office, where Angelo covers projects on climate finance, circular economy, and use of non-traditional data for development. Angelo is a doctoral candidate of Economics at the University of the Philippines - Diliman, where Angelo also obtained his Master of Arts in the same discipline.

This presentation looks into use cases of combining input-output analysis with network theory from the lens of sustainability. In particular, the concept of centrality is complemented with information on back-and-forth transactions among sectors present in input-output tables to identify critical sectors for prioritisation.

Edgar Hertwich, International Chair in Industrial Ecology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, member of the International Resource Panel and the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change

Edgar Hertwich is International Chair in Industrial Ecology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He also serves as a member of the International Resource Panel and the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change. His work addresses footprint analysis, factor trade, technology assessment, and sustainable development. The talk seeks to clarify the relationship of the hypothetical extraction method, linkage analysis as developed by Cella and Duarte, and the supply chain impact approach by Cabernard. Hypothetical extraction offers a clear interpretation of linkages as a contribution to value added or other factors added. Recent applications on the carbon footprint of materials and machinery and equipment will be used to illustrate the role of the methods.

Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Senior climate change economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, in the Chile office

Adrien Vogt-Schilb is a senior climate change economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, in the Chile office. Adrien's work focuses on the design of effective and politically acceptable climate strategies. He develops tools to align decarbonization policies with development goals in all sectors and to manage political economy issues in the transition to net-zero – including labor, social and fiscal impacts. Adrien also works on methods to build socio-economic resilience to uncertain climate change impacts, and to facilitate the co-construction of public policies involving a variety of stakeholders with different objectives. Adrien is a trained engineer, holds a PhD in economics and is the author of 7 books or monographs, and more than 30 academic papers on climate change and development.

Dabo Guan, Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University, China, and Chair of Climate Change Economics at the University College London, UK

Professor Dabo Guan is a Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University, China, and Chair of Climate Change Economics at the University College London, UK. He is the Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences, UK. He specialises in environmental economics for international climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, scenario analysis on environmental impacts, water resources accounting and management, input-output modelling and their applications in both developed and developing countries. He is the chief expert in coordinating China-EU Flagship Cooperation Programme on Climate Change and Biodiversity. He was a Lead Author for the IPCC AR5. He was the Highly Cited Researcher for 2018-2021, top thousand climate academics (rank 389 in 2020). He has authored over 260+ publications, including 60+ articles published Nature, Nature Research Journals, and PNAS. He received the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize 2014, the Leontief Prize 3 times and the Philip Leverhulme Prize. His paper about climate change impact on beer consumption received the 2018 Altimetric Top 100 award.

Manfred Lenzen, Professor of Sustainability Research with the ISA team in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney

Manfred Lenzen is Professor of Sustainability Research with the ISA team in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. He has a PhD in Physics and experience in renewable energy technologies, life-cycle assessment, and carbon footprinting. His current research interests focus on the link between environmental/resource impacts and international trade. He currently leads the development of cloud-based collaborative-research platforms for building large-scale global economic-environmental models that enable environmental impact analysis across global supply-chain networks.

Faye Duchin, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

It is with great pleasure to have Professor Faye Duchin (Professor Emeritus of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a previous IIOA President) as our speaker. Faye's talk is titled, "Extending the Scope of Input-Output Models to Address 21st Century Challenges".

Pablo R. Liboreiro, Technical University of Madrid

In this Webinar, Pablo will present his Leontief Prize winning research on the application of non-linear input-output analysis to estimate disguised unemployment in less-developed countries. The presentation will reflect the basic ingredients of the model as well as the main estimation results. Likewise, the typical problems that arise in non-linear input-output analysis will be covered and some of the possible future developments.

Thomas Howells, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

In this webinar Tom will provide an overview of BEA’s structure, the role of the supply-use framework as the foundation for many of BEA’s products, and ongoing research building on BEA’s SUTs/IOTs—including work on TiVA statistics, supply chain analysis, and satellite accounts covering the digital economy, marine economy, and commercial space economy.

Yasuhide Okuyama, University of Kitakyushu

We are happy to have Yasuhide Okuyama (University of Kitakyushu) as our speaker. His talk will be titled "Models for Impact Analysis of Disasters: Recent Advances and Future Opportunities".

Richard Wood, Industrial Ecology Programme, NTNU Trondheim

We are happy to have Richard Wood (Industrial Ecology Programme, NTNU Trondheim) as our speaker. His talk is titled "Modelling 'Sustainable Consumption' Using Global Multi-Regional Input-Output Analysis".

Maureen Rimmer, Victoria University in Melbourne

On February 17, the IIOA organized its first online activity to make up for the fact that the International Input-Output Conference in Malaysia had to be canceled again, due to the Covid19-pandemic. Maureen Rimmer, professor at the Centre of Policy Studies at Victoria University in Melbourne, gave the first webinar. It was titled "Historical Simulations: A CGE Technique for Updating Input-Output Tables and Estimating Technology and Preference Trends".