@article{Dixon:332243,
      recid = {332243},
      author = {Dixon, Peter B. and Rimmer, Maureen T. and Wittwer, Glyn},
      title = {USAGE-R51, a state-level multi-regional CGE model of the  US economy},
      address = {2012},
      pages = {35},
      year = {2012},
      note = {Presented at the 15th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Geneva, Switzerland},
      abstract = {This paper has two main parts. The first deals with  sourcing assumptions underlying multiregional models  including GTAP and TERM (The Enormous Regional Model). By  assuming that all users of a good in a particular region  source that good from all regions in common proportions,  the dimensions of a multi-regional CGE database are reduced  many-fold. This greatly reduces the solution time in  simulations. The paper details the derivation of formulae  on which the common sourcing assumption is based and the  necessary additional identities required to ensure that the  assumption holds. While the IMPLAN team has provided very  detailed small region input-output tables for the US  economy for many years, multi-regional modelling of the US  economy is less common. USAGE-R51 is in the TERM school of  multi-regional, sub-national models. Rather than be  discouraged by the absence of interstate trade data,  USAGE-R51 follows the TERM traditional of estimating such  trade matrices so as to satisfy state level excess demands  and distribute excess supplies. Exceptionally detailed  regional employment numbers for the United States are  available from census data. The master database of  USAGE-R51 includes 497 sectors, including a split of  electricity generation into different fuel types. It also  includes 51 regions. Following the GTAP approach, the  USAGE-R51 database is tailored for each application through  appropriate aggregation.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/332243},
}