Technology of Input–Output Analysis with CES Production: Application for Studying the Kazakhstan Supply Chain during the COVID-19 Pandemic


Boranbayev A. Obrosova N. Shananin A.
October 2023Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

Sustainability (Switzerland)
2023#15Issue 19

Input–output analysis finds widespread application in estimating the shock effects on production networks within both local and global economies. We are developing a new technology for intersectoral analysis that takes into account the substitution of production factors within a complex supply network triggered by external or internal shocks. This technology is based on the explicit solution of a pair of convex programming problems: the resource allocation problem under the assumption of Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) technologies and the special dual Young problem. Solving these problems, we can ascertain the equilibrium inputs and price indexes of goods within the production network. In this paper, we apply this technology to analyze the economy of Kazakhstan in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our calculations provide us with the means to discuss the macroeconomic responses of the multi-sectoral production network in Kazakhstan to both external and internal shocks stemming from the pandemic.

CES production function , competitive equilibrium , economic shocks , input–output analysis , pandemic , resource allocation problem , Young transform

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Department of Computer Science, Nazarbayev University, 53 Kabanbay Batyr Ave, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan
Moscow Center for Fundamental and Applied Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, GSP-1, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control”, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Street 44/2, Moscow, 119333, Russian Federation
Department of System Analysis and Solutions, Faculty of Control and Applied Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutskiy Per. 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Russian Federation

Department of Computer Science
Moscow Center for Fundamental and Applied Mathematics
Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control”
Department of System Analysis and Solutions

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