Global Input-Output Tables: Evolution of Methodological Approaches to Construction and Using in Management and Modeling

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Global Input-Output Tables are increasingly being used in economic analysis, management and modeling. The article is aimed at investigating and discussing the evolution of methodological issues and approaches, starting with the well-known report of the UN group of experts led by the winner of 1973 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Wassily Leontief «The Future of the World Economy» up to the latest methodological provisions of the «Handbook on Extended Supply and Use Tables and Extended Input-Output Tables» published by OECD/EU in 2025. It provides an overview of economic literature and development of theoretical frameworks and concepts. Special attention is given to the key databases, such as ICIO OECD, WIOD, ADB-MRIO, EXIOBASE, FIGARO as well as GTAP. The leading Russian and foreign scientific schools dealing with Global Input-Output Models and scientific achievements in this field are highlighted. The author concludes: the main direction of global economic modelling is the construction of complex DSGE-models, using Global Input-Output Tables as the integrating block.

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V. G. Varnavskii

V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: varnavsky@imemo.ru
Moscow, Russia

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