Vertical Integration and Separation of Firms for Regulation and Competition
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17530177
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Applied economics
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| Research Institution | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
YANAGAWA Takashi Kobe University, Graduate School of Emoornim, Professor (60247616)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YOSHINO Ichiro Nagoya University of Commerce, Faculty of Business Administration, Professor (90267922)
HARIMAYA Kozo Sapporo Gakuin University, Faculty of Economics, Associate Professor (90347732)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,450,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
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| Keywords | Regulater Reform / Competition Polio / Privatization / Vertical bite ation / Vertical Se oration / Railway Industr / 規制 / 鉄道 / ルーマニア / イギリス / 統合 / 東ヨーロッパ |
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| Research Abstract |
Our researches considered two issues: (1) regulatory reform and competition policy regarding vertical integration and vertical separation, and (2) vertical separation of railway industry. On the first issue, we carried out, in particular, the research on (i)a new industrial organization of Japan which is suitable to induce more competition and investment, and (ii) the duty to deal of anti-trust law from the viewpoint of transaction cost economics and relational contracting. On the second issue, we investigated (i) liberalization of Romanian railways under enlargement of EU, (ii) efficiency of Romanian railways, (iii) regulation and efficiency of the UK railways, and (iv) the effect of disused train lines on the regional economy in Japan.
We have pointed out that the vertical separation can be effective means to induce more competition and necassary investment of the various network industries, whereas vertical separation has not been employed in the privatization of Japanese network industries, and so the competition work less in Japan than in EU countries. We also scrutinized the vertical separation of railway industry of UK and Romania where vertical separation works. We gave the summary of the history of vertical separation and current problems of railways in UK and Romania, and also did quantitative research of production efficiency after privatization. Finally, we did a case study of the economic effect of disused train lines in Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan.
Furthermore, we published two books "Competition: Strategy and Policy" and "Introduction to Microeconomics for Business and Public Policy," based on our research efforts.
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Research Products
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[Journal Article] EU統合とルーマニア鉄道の自由化2006
Author(s)
吉野一郎
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Journal Title
NUCB Journal of Economics and Information Science Vol.51, No.1
Pages: 107-116
NAID
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[Book] 競争の戦略と政策2006
Author(s)
柳川隆・川濱昇編
Total Pages
360
Publisher
有斐閣
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