International Partners
Overview
Over the last 30 years, Inforum has directed much of its effort to developing a linked system of international macro/interindustry models, all constructed with a consistent methodology. The small staff of Inforum in College Park could not have achieved this without the help of its growing family of international partners.
The linked system of models currently is comprised of models for the following 13 countries: Canada, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Spain, Austria, China and the U.S. The models are linked through the Bilateral Trade Model (BTM), so that economic in behavior in one country consistently affects the economies of other countries at the industry level. For example, the production of autos in Japan ultimately affects the demand for iron ore in Canada, through the requirements of Japanese steel supplies to the Japanese auto industry. For a more detailed description of the models, see the International System page.
Inforum does not currently have a partner organization for all of these models, nor has every partner country supplied a model to the international system. However, Inforum continues to work with the partner organizations to help them build models of their countries, or to update their models using the Inforum Interdyme modeling software.
Conferences
Each year since 1993, Inforum has held an annual world conference, each time in a different partner country. The aim of these conferences is to further the work of empirical input-output modeling, analysis and data development techniques, through the presentation and publication of papers representing the work of Inforum activities worldwide. Although the agenda overlaps somewhat with that of the International Input-Output Conference, it is more specifically dedicated to empirical work, especially in the areas of model building and data development.
International Partners
Staff - Bernhard Boehm, Mikulas Luptacik, Josef Richter, Bernhard Mahlberg
Model - Austria IV
Staff - Dirk Vanwynsberghe, Lieven Vandendriessche, Steven Vannieuwenborg
Model - Belgian Inforum Model
Staff - Shantong Li, Yinchu Wang, Shengchu Pan, Zuo Li, Haiying Wu
Model - Multisectoral Development Analysis of China (MUDAN)
Staff - Peter Rormose Jensen, Asger Olsen
Models - DANDY3M (DANish DYamic Multisectoral Macroeconomic Model), ADAM
Staff - Tiiu Paas, Jaanika Meriküll, Alari Paulus
Staff - Bernd Meyer, Christian Lutz, Gerd Ahlert, Frank Hohmann, Marc Ingo Wolter, Martin Distelkamp, Anett Grossmann, Ivaylo Popov
Models - INFORGE, PANTA RHEI, SPORT, SPARTEN, LAENDER
Staff - Rajmund Petz, Judit Barta, Zoltán Sulok, Sigitas Povilaitis, Tamás Révész
Model - DUNA
Staff - Mitsuhito Ono, Yasuhiko Sasai, Toshiaki Hasegawa, Takeshi Imagawa
Models - JIDEA: Japan Interindustry Dynamic Econometric Analysis, Inter-Regional Input-Output Analysis of Japan
Staff - Soo-Hee Lee, Young Sun Lee
Models - KIOSK, DISK (Dynamic Input-Output System of Korean Economy)
Staff - Remigijs Pocs , Gunta Pinke, Astra Auzina, Velga Ozolina
Model - Latvian Multisectoral Model (LMM)
Staff - Alejandro Dávila Flores, Alejandra Berenice Trejo Nieto, Gustavo Félix Verduzco
Staff - Lucja Tomaszewicz, Jakub Boratynski, Mariusz Plich, Michal Przybylinski, Iwona Swieczewska
Model - IMPEC
Staff - Georgy Serebryakov, Marat Uzyakov, Alexander Shirov, Victor Efimov, Alexey Yantovsky
Model - RIM
Staff - David Mullins, Lindi Harlene Mulder, Gauthier Tshiswaka-Kashalala
Staff - Juan Carlos Collado, Adrián Gonzalez
Model - MIDE (Macroeconomico Interindustrial de Espańa)
Staff - Clopper Almon, Margaret McCarthy, Jeff Werling, Doug Meade, Doug Nyhus, Ronald Horst, San Sampattavanija, Xue Li, Pacharasut Sujarittanonta, Xiaohan Hu
Models - LIFT, ILIAD, Bilateral Trade Model, MUDAN, Quest, Demographic Projection Model, CHIOMS