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A Study of the Implications of Innovation Location Patterns for Economic Growth and National Welfare

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K01638
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 InstitutionDoshisha University

Principal Investigator

DAVIS COLIN  同志社大学, 国際教育インスティテュート, 教授 (70432557)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 橋本 賢一  神戸大学, 経済学研究科, 教授 (70403219)
Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
KeywordsIndustry Location / R&D Offshoring / Employment / Productivity Growth / International Trade / Endogenous Growth / Theoretical Economics / International Economics / Economic Growth
Outline of Research at the Start

(i) Study how the firm-level location decision for innovation generates R&D offshoring patterns, while considering the implications for employment patterns, productivity growth and welfare.

(ii) Study how the firm-level decision to vertically fragment the R&D process across national borders generates R&D offshoring patterns, while considering the ramifications for employment patterns, productivity growth and welfare.

(iii) Study how innovation and production offshoring generate institutional spillovers across labor markets and clarify the links between national unemployment rates.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research project was to theoretically study how firms select optimal geographic locations for their research and development (R&D) activities across an increasingly integrated world economy, and to appraise whether the resulting R&D locations patterns benefit or hurt the associated home and host countries, with a specific emphasis on the consequences for employment and productivity growth, and with an aim to identify the roles of policy in improving national welfare.

The research project successfully analyzed the following issues: (i) the relationship between innovation offshoring and productivity growth; (ii) how labor market frictions affect industry location patterns, unemployment rates, and economic growth; (iii) the effects of import competition on regional industry location and economic growth; (iv) the effects of demographic transition on industry location and economic growth; (v) the effect of union power on industry location patterns and economic growth.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

経済政策の一つの目的は地方経済を再生することである。その一方で、都市圏に産業が集積されると経済成長が加速することもよく知られている。本研究では、産業の立地模様に与える影響を通して、経済政策が複数の地域にもたらす効果を考える。その結果、より的確な経済政策を実行することが可能になる。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2022 2021 2020 2019

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Demographic Structure, Knowledge Diffusion, and Endogenous Productivity Growth2022

    • Author(s)
      Colin Davis, Ken-Ichi Hashimoto, Ken Tabata
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Macroeconomics

      Volume: 71 Pages: 1-17

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.jmacro.2021.103396

    • NAID

      40022512500

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Unionization, Industry Concentration, and Economic Growth2021

    • Author(s)
      Colin Davis, Ken-Ichi Hashimoto, Ken Tabata
    • Journal Title

      Discussion Paper No. 1154, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University

      Volume: 1154 Pages: 1-35

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Import Competition and Industry Location in a Small-Country Model of Productivity Growthport2021

    • Author(s)
      Davis, Colin and Ken-ichi Hashimoto
    • Journal Title

      Review of Internationa Economics

      Volume: forthcoming Issue: 4 Pages: 1-19

    • DOI

      10.1111/roie.12535

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Tariffs, Agglomeration, and Endogenous Growth2021

    • Author(s)
      Davis, Colin and Ken-ichi Hashimoto
    • Journal Title

      The Kokumin-Keizai Zasshi (Journal of Economics & Business Administration)

      Volume: 223(1) Pages: 61-74

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Demographic Structure, Knowledge Diffusion, and Endogenous Productivity Growth2020

    • Author(s)
      Davis, Colin, Ken-ichi Hashimoto, and Ken Tabata
    • Journal Title

      Discussion Paper No. 1055, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University

      Volume: 1055 Pages: 1-43

    • NAID

      40022512500

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Productivity Growth, Industry Location Patterns, and Labor Market Frictions2020

    • Author(s)
      Ken-ichi Hashimoto
    • Organizer
      産業構造と雇用・景気の国際マクロ動学分析
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Endogenous Productivity Growth, Industry Location Patterns, and Labor Market Frictions2019

    • Author(s)
      Colin Davis
    • Organizer
      Asian Pacific Trade Seminars, Tokyo University
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Productivity Growth, Industry Location Patterns, and Labor Market Frictions2019

    • Author(s)
      Ken-ichi Hashimoto
    • Organizer
      Annual Conference by Five Universities of East Asia: Innovation and Sustainable Development in the East Asian Economy
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Productivity Growth, Industry Location Patterns, and Labor Market Frictions2019

    • Author(s)
      Ken-ichi Hashimoto
    • Organizer
      Summer Workshop on Economic Theory
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Productivity Growth, Industry Location Patterns, and Labor Market Frictions2019

    • Author(s)
      Ken-ichi Hashimoto
    • Organizer
      日本経済学会 2019年度 春季大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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