SAM Multipliers of Growth and Distribution for an Advanced Economy

The paper demonstrates abilities of the SAM to investigate issues relevant for an advanced economy. i.e. The Netherlands. It studies SAM multipliers for an initial year, examines how they change over later years, and identifies segments that were gainers and losers over ten years. Available data allowed for breaking up population by income deciles groups, regionalization of the SAM into four geographical areas (North, East, South and West); decomposition of regional economic performance and urbanization patterns. Dynamic SAM analysis applied to a developed economy supports the turnaround hypothesis that future growth is conditioned by weekend (internal) multiplier effects and strengthened (external) exogenous effects, i.e. spending and transfers by government and rest of the world.