Assessing the Effects of Policy Competition on Industry Location Patterns and Economic Growth
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22K01511
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 07040:Economic policy-related
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| Research Institution | Doshisha University |
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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)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
橋本 賢一 神戸大学, 経済学研究科, 教授 (70403219)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
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| Keywords | Policy Competition / Industry Location / R&D Location / Economic Growth / National Welfare / Regional Policy |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
With this research project, we intend to complete a theoretical study of the effects of regional policy competition on the geography location of innovation and industry. With increased economic integration, firms emphasize relative costs across regions when selecting optimal production and R&D locations. As such, regional policy plays a key role in the location decisions of firms. This research project investigates how regional governments can set policy strategically with the aim of improving regional welfare while accounting for firm-level location decisions.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This research project studies how regional policy competition influences the geographic location patterns of industry and R&D.
The first stage of the project has completed a theoretical analysis of the effects of national union labor orientation and bargaining power on location patterns, economics growth, and national welfare. The results have been presented at a conference and submitted to a journal for review.
Work is progressing on the second stage of the project, with a theoretical framework that considers the implications of national R&D subsidy competition for innovation location patterns, economic growth, and national welfare. An intermediate set of results has been presented at an academic conference, and a complete set of results will soon be presented in a discussion paper.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Publications:
(i) Davis, Colin and Hashimoto, Ken-ichi. (2022)"Productivity Growth, Industry Location Patterns, and Labor Market Frictions," Regional Science and Urban Economics 97, 1-13.
Presentations:
(i) "Unionization, Industry Concentration, and Economic Growth," Annual Meeting of The Japanese Society of International Economics, Kinki University, 2022.
(ii) "Optimal R&D Policy, Industry Location, and Productivity Growth," International Conference on International Trade and Macroeconomic Dynamics, Kobe University, 2023.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The project members will continue to revise the research results associated with the second stage of the project in preparation for the creation of a discussion paper and publication in a formal academic journal. In addition, project members will begin work on the third stage of the project, with the construction of a theoretical framework that allows for an analysis of how strategic tariff policy affects industry and innovation location patterns, economic growth, and national welfare.
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Report
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Research Products
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