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What causes the regional Balassa-Samuelson effect?

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K01566
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 07040:Economic policy-related
Research InstitutionShinshu University

Principal Investigator

Tokui Joji  信州大学, 学術研究院社会科学系, 教授 (90192658)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords地域経済学 / バラッサ・サムエルソン効果 / 地域間生産性格差 / 地域間サービス価格差 / 土地サービス投入 / バラッサ・サミュエルソン効果 / 土地サービス投入価値 / 多地域産業連関表 / 集積効果
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We observe a positive correlation between differences in service prices and productivity among Japanese regions. Although there is apparent resemblance with the famous Balassa-Samuelson Effect, we cannot observe the same labor productivity differences as the original version. Therefore, we consider two alternative hypotheses that may explain the regional Balassa-Samuelson effect: high land use costs or high labor costs in urban areas. We constructed consistent prefectural-level IO tables, and estimated land use costs for each industry in each prefecture. We apply the Leontief price model and calculate regional price differences caused by differences in both land use cost and labor cost and we estimate a regression equation with regional service price index as dependent variable and we decompose the sum of squares for the dependent variable into that related to land use cost and that related to labor cost.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

地域版バラッサ・サムエルソン効果は、国際版のものと同じ背景要因で説明することはできず、それに代わる仮説も複数存在しているので、どの代替仮説がより重要かを実証的に確定することは学術的にも意義がある。加えて、高生産地域のサービス価格上昇が、地価上昇を通じて起こるのか労働コスト上昇を通じて起こるのかは、分配政策上も大きな違いがあり、リーディング産業の地域立地政策の意義に異なる評価をもたらす。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (17 results)

All 2022 2021 2019 2018

All Journal Article (9 results) (of which Open Access: 8 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results) Book (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] R-JIPデータベース2021の推計方法と分析結果2022

    • Author(s)
      徳井丞次・牧野達治
    • Journal Title

      RIETI Discussion Paper Series

      Volume: 22-J-007 Pages: 1-51

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 地域間サービス価格差と生産性格差再考-卸売・小売業の差格差推計と付加価値ベース価格差への変換を含む再推計2022

    • Author(s)
      徳井丞次・水田岳志
    • Journal Title

      RIETI Discussion Paper Series

      Volume: 22-J-008 Pages: 1-65

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 土地投入と地域間生産性格差2022

    • Author(s)
      徳井丞次・水田岳志
    • Journal Title

      RIETI Discussion Paper Series

      Volume: 22-J-014 Pages: 1-27

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] JIPデータベース2018:推計方法と概要2021

    • Author(s)
      深尾京司、池内健太、乾友彦、金榮愨、権赫旭、田原慎二、徳井丞次、牧野達治、松浦寿幸、宮川努
    • Journal Title

      RIETI Technical Paper Series

      Volume: 21-T-001 Pages: 1-50

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 新型コロナショックの経済波及効果-地域間産業連関分析による地域別・産業別分析2021

    • Author(s)
      徳井丞次、落合勝昭、川崎一泰、宮川努
    • Journal Title

      RIETI Discussion Paper Series

      Volume: 21-J-010 Pages: 1-30

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Japan’s Prefectural-level KLEMS: Productivity Comparison and Service Price Differences2019

    • Author(s)
      Joji Tokui and Takeshi Mizuta
    • Journal Title

      International Productivity Monitor

      Volume: 36 Pages: 142-160

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 都道府県別農産物生産価格差指数の作成-立地と品質2019

    • Author(s)
      徳井丞次、水田岳志
    • Journal Title

      RIETI Discussion Paper Series

      Volume: 19-J-048 Pages: 1-26

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 地域版バラッサ・サムエルソン効果は何故観察されるのか2019

    • Author(s)
      徳井丞次
    • Journal Title

      RIETI Discussion Paper Series

      Volume: 19-J-054 Pages: 1-26

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 生産性とはなにか2018

    • Author(s)
      徳井丞次
    • Journal Title

      一般社団法人日本統計協会『統計』

      Volume: 2018年9月号 Pages: 43-48

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Why Do We Observe a Regional Balassa-Samuelson Effect?2022

    • Author(s)
      Tokui, Joji
    • Organizer
      7th World KLEMS Conference.
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Secular Stagnation of Labor Productivity and Real Wages in Japan: An Empirical Analysis Based on the JIP Database 20212022

    • Author(s)
      Kyoji Fukao,Kenta Ikeuchi, Tomohiko Inui, YoungGak Kim, HyeogUg Kwon, Tatsuji Makino, Toshiyuki Matsuura, Tsutomu Miyagawa, Shinji Tahara, and Joji Tokui
    • Organizer
      7th World KLEMS Conference
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A Comparison of Human Capital and Productivity across Prefectures2021

    • Author(s)
      Joji Tokui and Tatsuji Makino
    • Organizer
      Sixth World KLEMS Conference
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Japan's Prefectural-level KLEMS: Productivity Comparison and Price Differences2018

    • Author(s)
      Joji Tokui and Takeshi Mizuta
    • Organizer
      Fifth World KLEMS
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Japan's Prefectural-level KLEMS: Productivity Comparison and Sercice Price Differences2018

    • Author(s)
      Joji Tokui and Takeshi Mizuta
    • Organizer
      Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] コロナショックの経済学2021

    • Author(s)
      宮川努編
    • Total Pages
      192
    • Publisher
      中央経済社
    • ISBN
      9784502385919
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Book] サービス産業の生産性と日本経済:JIPデータベースによる実証分析と提言2021

    • Author(s)
      深尾京司編
    • Total Pages
      423
    • Publisher
      東京大学出版会
    • ISBN
      9784130403047
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 日本の地域別生産性と格差2018

    • Author(s)
      徳井 丞次
    • Total Pages
      263
    • Publisher
      東京大学出版会
    • ISBN
      9784130402859
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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