The fundamental goals of this research are fourfold. The first is to lay out an alternative technique for managing and presenting regional economic accounts utilizing aspects of both input-output tables and social accounting matrices. Secondly, to develop and implement an estimation technique that allows estimation of interregional trade flows, necessary for a multi-region model of the economy, without using any trade flow data. Third, to establish a relatively simple set of New Economic Geography inspired behavioral equations, which can be used in conjunction with these accounts to drive a multi-region model of the economy. Finally, to explore extensions and improvements of the basic model structure that might be implemented to expand the functionality of the basic model.
