In environmental science, attention has recently shifted from accounting territorial emissions to consumption-based emission accounting. In a globalizing world, this implies asking the question: Who emits for whom? For example, part of China's emissions are ultimately embodied in the consumption of the US population. In trade theory, a similar shift of attention has taken place. Due to the huge increase in the trade of intermediate products, double counting becomes an issue. Rather than looking at gross trade figures, the idea is that also trade in value added should be taken into account. This would answer the question: Who works for whom? Quantifying the answers requires input-output tables at a global level. They reflect the flows of goods and services from one industry in a certain country to another industry in another country. Recently such global multiregional input-output tables have been constructed. This lecture reports the use of the tables from the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) and applying them to analyze trade in emissions and trade in value added for China.
Short Bio:
Erik Dietzenbacher is Full Professor in Interindustry Economics at the University of Groningen, his research areas focus on Input-output analysis, Economic growth, Technology and Innovations, Industrial organization, Matrix algebra. He is currently President of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA), Honorary President of the Chinese Input-Output Association (CIOA), IIOA Fellow. He serves as the associate editor of "Journal of Regional Science", former editor of "Economic Systems Research". He is also Affiliate Research Professor at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Guest Professor at the University of CAS (UCAS) in Beijing. He was the project coordinator of "World Input-Output Database: Construction and Applications" (WIOD), a large-scale collaborative research project that was funded by the EU in its 7th Framework Programme, in which 11 international institutes participate, and which ran from 2009-2012.
