TITLE : ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL SYSTEMS: EXPLORATIONS IN MODEL BUILDING AND POLICY ANALYSIS *

 
Foreword  vii
Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
 
 
I INTRODUCTION  1
1.1 Purpose of This Study
1.2 The Philadelphia Region
1.3 A Brief View of the Philadelphia Region  Econometrie Model
1.4 Outline of the Study
 
II METHODS OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS  13
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Economic Base Models
2.3 Regional and Interregional Input-Output
2.4 Econometric Models
2.5 Regional Models Revisited
 
III A FORECASTING MODEL  75
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Development of the Philadelphia Model
3.3 The Model
3.4 Concluding Remarks
Appendix to Chapter III: Philadelphia Econometric
Project Model and Data Bank
 
IV TESTING THE MODEL AND SOME POLICY-ANALYTIC SIMULATION
   EXPERIMENTS  139
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Tests of the Philadelphia Econometric Model
4.3 Forecasting with the Philadelphia Econometric Model
4.4 Policy-Analytic Simulation Experiments
4.5 Concluding Remarks
 
V A SUMMING UP  193
5.1 Summary and Conclusions
5.2 The Future for Regional Econometric Models
 
References  197
Index  207