| Project/Area Number |
15203014
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic policy
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
TABUCHI Takatoshi The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Economics, Professor, 大学院・経済学研究科, 教授 (70133014)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Economics, Professor, 大学院・経済学研究科, 教授 (30158414)
IHORI Toshihiro The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Economics, Professor, 大学院・経済学研究科, 教授 (40145652)
HATTA Tatsuo International Christian University, Professor, 教養学部, 教授 (70008647)
SHIBATA Hirofumi Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Professor, アジア太平洋マネジメント学部, 客員教授 (80112001)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2005)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥38,350,000 (Direct Cost: ¥29,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥8,850,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥11,440,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,640,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥12,480,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,880,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥14,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,330,000)
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| Keywords | Risk Management / Economic Welfare / Centralization / Decentralization / Redistribution / Economic Growth / Conflict / Policy coordination / 多国間調整 / 安全保障 / 地域経済 / 社会保障制度 / マクロショック / 財政金融政策 |
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| Research Abstract |
We have investigated the positive and normative aspects of risk management policy under centralized and decentralized system. We also considered risk management policy where risk occurs endogenously in a growth model setting. By incorporating macro fiscal and monetary policy, social security reform, and fiscal decentralization into the analytical framework, we have clarified the desirable properties of risk management. We investigated the current redistribution policy, the social security structure, and regional economic policy of major developed countries and derived interesting analytical results based on the actual policy issues of these countries. We have used the politico-economic approach to this topic.
It is well recognized that although the disexternalities of pubic bads such as pollutants due to economic growth do not necessarily enhance welfare, the abatement behavior may offset such disexternalities. Moreover, if the agent evaluates growth much and conceives no need for conducting abatement, she gains from growth much. Thus, a natural conjecture is that growth normally enhances welfare especially for the poor agent. By explicitly incorporating the optimizing abatement behavior, we showed that the conjecture is not necessarily valid. Namely, a decrease in wealth differentials may not improve the quantity of environment, which could hurt even the poor, who faces a corner solution. We also showed that the worldwide economic growth would hurt the poor country if it deteriorates environment much, and the abatement technology is very inefficient, and the number of poor countries is large.
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