Matriz de Contabilidad Social para Argentina construida con resultados de PBI alternativos proveniente del ARKLEMS-LAND UBA

A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Argentina is presented in this paper using different sources of data. The result is a combination of GDP results for ARKLEMS – LAND UBA model and historical data from Argentina. The aim of the paper is to present a SAM that could be used for simulations of political economy in SAM based models or Computable General Equilibrium models. After INDEC intervention and the deficiency of the national stats system, an alternative GDP estimation for ARKLEMS, a household survey from 2004/2005 (ENGHo), imports for UNCOMTRADE and coefficients for old SAM’s estimations were used to estimate a new SAM. So we describe in the paper a basic methodology which indicates how to build an updated SAM for Argentina 2012.