Nº 253 (October, 2019). Onil Banerjee, Martin Cicowiez, Renato Vargas & Mark Horridge

“Construction of an Extended Environmental and Economic Social Accounting Matrix from a Practitioner’s Perspective”.

In 2014, the United Nations published the first International Standard for environmentaleconomic statistics, known as the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA).. As more countries adopt and implement the SEEA, the availability of consistent environmental and economic information increases the need for analytical tools that can use this data to respond to policy relevant questions. In this paper, we present a workflow to develop an environmentallyextended social accounting matrix, which can serve as the basic database for the development of environmentally-extended computable general equilibrium models. To illustrate, and given its comprehensive implementation of the SEEA, we apply this workflow to the Guatemalan case and the Integrated Economic-Environmental Modeling (IEEM) Platform.

JEL codes: D58, Q56

Suggested citation: Banerjee, O., M. Cicowiez, R. Vargas & M. Horridge. (2019). Construction of an Extended Environmental and Economic Social Accounting Matrix from a Practitioner’s Perspective. CEDLAS Working Papers Nº 253, September, 2019, CEDLAS-Universidad Nacional de La Plata.