Intersectoral Economic Interactions and Iran’s Economic Priorities: A DANP Approach

In this paper, the intersectoral  interactions of   all activities of Iran's economy based on the cumulative Input-Output table of 2011 in 15 sectors has been investigated by using the DANP approach. The results indicate that the "medium-tech industries" has the highest interaction. The "medium- tech industries" has had the highest penetration coefficient or net effect in the intersectoral interactions of the economy, and then the "energy" and "financial intermediary" sectors have had second and third ranks. After the Matrix Algebra calculations based on the DEMATEL and in order to calculate the priority coefficients of each sector, by applying the value-added vector of each sector to the total effects matrix, the super weighted matrix has been exponentiated to a limit. The results of this simulation showed that the highest priority in the Iran’s economy belonged to the "medium-tech industries" with a priority coefficient of 0.245 and "agriculture and fishing" with a priority coefficient of 0.226, respectively.