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The Mechanism and Stability of Global Imbalances

Research Project

Project/Area Number 23K22120
Project/Area Number (Other) 22H00849 (2022-2023)
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund (2024)
Single-year Grants (2022-2023)
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 07040:Economic policy-related
Research InstitutionWaseda University

Principal Investigator

菊地 朋生  早稲田大学, 国際学術院(アジア太平洋研究科), 教授 (60906527)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 戸部 智  関西学院大学, 総合政策学部, 講師 (00824145)
Project Period (FY) 2022-04-01 – 2025-03-31
Project Status Granted (Fiscal Year 2024)
Budget Amount *help
¥9,360,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,160,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
KeywordsGlobal imbalances / Superpower / Gravity Model / Portfolio Investment / Foreign Debt / superpowers / club goods / coalition formation / World order
Outline of Research at the Start

The reseach project has two objectives. First, we investigate theoretically how competition between US and China to expand their shpere of influence depends on preferences and characteristics of other countries such ideological orientation, GDP and trade with US and China.Second, we investigatge and empirically the determinants of portfolio investment flows and how they contribute to economic growth in the receipient countries to understand why capital does not necessarily flow from rich to poor countries.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

We have revised and published "The Power of Non-Superpowers," Tomoo Kikuchi and Shuige Liu (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2209.10206).The paper proposes a game-theoretic model to investigate how non-superpowers with heterogenous preferences and endowments shape the superpower competition for a sphere of influence. Two superpowers play a Stackelberg game by providing club goods.Their utility depends on non-superpowers who form coalitions to join a club in the presence of externality. The coalition formation, which depends on the characteristics of nonsuperpowers,influences the behavior of superpowers and thus the size of their clubs. Our data-based simulations of the subgame perfect equilbirum capture how the US-China competition depends on other countries.

We are working on "Does Foreign Equity Contribute to Economic Growth?" Tomoo Kikuchi, Satoshi Tobe, Duy Van Dang, and Quang Trung Nguyen.The paper constructs a panel dataset covering 56 countries from 1985 to 2017 and find a positive relationship between foreign equity investment and GDP growth with private investment being a mediator. The impact of foreign equity investmenton private investment peaks in two years before it fades out.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

1) We set out to model currency choices for international trade settlement. We obtained the basic theorectical and simulation results for "Trade Networks and Currency Choices" with Lien Thi Quynh Pham and we are currently finalzing a draft. 2) We set out to work on empirical projects on a) the patterns of portfolio investment, b) foreign equity and economic growth, c) the perfomance of overseas M&A activities by US companies. For a) and b) we have obtained the main results and are working to produce working papers on "Portfolio Investment Patterns in East Asia," with Changran Lee; "The Role of Tax Havens for Portfolio Investment of the US and China," with Xiaoyu Cheng; "Does Foreign Equity Contribute to Economic Growth?" with Duy Van Dang and Quang Trung Nguyen. For c) we are still doing our preliminary analysis on "The Exorbitant Privilege and Cross-border M&A," with Sinan Caner Yamak.3) We set to analyze the relationship between our theoretical and emprical results. We have not yet attempted to present all our results in a coherent way.
Overall, we are making progress according to our initial plan to produce both theoretical and empirical papers under the umbrella project "The Mechanism and Stability of Global Imbalances".

Strategy for Future Research Activity

We plan to publish the following working papers in arXiv: 1) "Does Foreign Equity Contribute to Economic Growth?" with Duy Van Dang and Quang Trung Nguyen; 2) "Portfolio Investment Patterns in East Asia," with Changran Lee; 3) "The Role of Tax Havens for Portfolio Investment of the US and China," with Xiaoyu Cheng; 4) "The Exorbitant Privilege and Cross-border M&A," with Sinan Caner Yamak.

Report

(2 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report
  • 2022 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2023 2022 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (4 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results) Remarks (2 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Bocconi University(イタリア)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] National University of Singapore/Nanyang Technological University(シンガポール)

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Vietnam Institute of Economics(ベトナム)

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Asian Development Bank(フィリピン)

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] A Game-Theoretic Model of Superpowers Competing for a Sphere of Influence2023

    • Author(s)
      Tomoo Kikuchi
    • Organizer
      Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A Game-Theoretic Model of Superpowers Competing for a Sphere of Influence2023

    • Author(s)
      Tomoo Kikuchi
    • Organizer
      Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks] Global Capital Market

    • URL

      https://sites.google.com/view/global-capital-market/home

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] Tomoo Kikuchi

    • URL

      https://sites.google.com/site/tomookikuchi76/

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] International Conference on International Capital Flows and Economic Development in Asia2022

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2022-04-19   Modified: 2024-12-25  

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