BERIO

BERIO is part of a family of models that are based on different geographical levels. These models have in common a theoretical core that is supplemented by detailed statistical information at the respective regional level.

BERIO is a small-scale district model of the Austrian economy. The model distinguishes between 74 goods and economic sectors as well as 6 final demand categories (private and public as well as consumption of non-profit organisations, investments and exports as well as changes in inventories) at the level of the 115 Austrian districts (23 districts are distinguished in Vienna).

The regionalisation of the data base was operationalised by sectoral or (where possible) regional evaluations of the central surveys of Statistics Austria on the manufacturing and service sectors; the official input-output table of Statistics Austria in the current version of 2019 supplies the "boundary values" at the national level. Data for the model operationalisation thus primarily refer to the years 2019 to 2022 as the latest available information in most cases. Overall, the model thus enables a very finely granulated sectoral and regional representation of the "production technologies".

In addition to interregional intermediate input linkages, BERIO explicitly distinguishes commuter linkages between the districts, as well as inter-regional consumption flows resulting from domestic tourism and shopping.

The main variables of a BERIO simulation are value added and employment by sector and region. These can also be estimated separately by impact levels (direct, indirect and induced); in addition to the direct effects, these are the indirect effects, which result from the supplies triggered by the demand impulse of the direct effects and pass through several levels of the production system, as well as the induced effects, which are linked to household consumption associated with the income or with the replacement investments of the companies resulting from capital depreciation.