“…For what concerns the first theme, before the end of the previous century, the main tools to perform policy impact studies were regional input‐output tables, by and large referring to localized projects. Studied extensively by Costa () and Falocci, Paniccià, and Stanghellini (), non‐survey tables for single regions started to be built, the first by Camagni () for Sardinia and the others by ISTAT some years later. IRPET, the research Institute of the Tuscany Region started to compile comprehensive multiregional I‐O tables in 1995 (Casini Benvenuti, Martellato, & Raffaelli, ), stimulating the use of the tool for many applications (impacts of large events, of real estate or industrial projects, of closures of plants).…”