Regional Development Impacts Multi-Regional - Multi-Industry Model (MRMI) Users Manual

摘要

The overall objective of this User Manual is to describe a modeling methodology for estimating regional development impacts associated with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers water resource projects. The maual concerns the Multiregional Multi-Industry (MRMI) forecasting model, a large-scale econometric framework that forecasts economic and demographic activity in areas as small as counties. The User Manual is intended to serve as a self-contained reference source for understanding the theoretical basis for MRMI, its technical structure and the procedures for generating regional forecasts. More importantly, it details the data development activities that are required to estimate direct impacts associated with Corps projects and to incorporate these impacts into the model's data base. Considerations regarding consistency between estimated direct impacts and MRMI's internal data conventions are also raised. The User Manual uses the Coosa River Navigation Project as a case study for illustrating the process of estimating direct impacts.