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Elucidation of the decision mechanism of public debt policy through a political process

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K17078
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Public finance/Public economy
Research InstitutionKochi University of Technology

Principal Investigator

Arai Real  高知工科大学, 経済・マネジメント学群, 講師 (70590462)

Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords公債 / 財政再建 / 投票 / 政治過程 / マクロ経済
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Taking into account the fiscal consolidation process, I build a model to analyze decision of a public debt policy through a political process. I investigate an effect of a change in political power of older generation (or younger generation) on the determination of the public debt policy, including the sovereign default. In the extent of my quantitative analysis, when the political power of older generations increases, we obtain a result that sovereign default is likely not to occur.
In addition, related to model analysis on voters' behavior on public debt holding, we tackle empirical study by using the JGSS data. We show that, the higher the age of voters, the higher the proportion of voters who prefers in the consumption tax increase is. We promote discussion about the mechanism.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2018 2017 2016 Other

All Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results) Remarks (3 results)

  • [Presentation] ”Public Debt Policy in a Political Economy"2018

    • Author(s)
      Real Arai
    • Organizer
      The 55th Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “Intergenerational Conflict over Fiscal Consolidation: Theory and Evidence from Japan”2018

    • Author(s)
      Real Arai
    • Organizer
      OAP-PRI Economics Workshop Series--Bank, Corporate and Sovereign Debt
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] ”Public Debt Policy in a Political Economy"2017

    • Author(s)
      新居 理有
    • Organizer
      公共選択学会2017年度大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Public Debt Policy in a Political Economy2016

    • Author(s)
      新居理有
    • Organizer
      日本財政学会第73回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      京都産業大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-10-22
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 研究代表者のウェブサイト

    • URL

      http://real-a.net

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 研究代表者の研究成果に関するウェブサイト

    • URL

      http://real-a.net

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 研究代表者の研究業績に関するサイト

    • URL

      http://real-a.net/rs/rs.html

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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