The study on economic policy that lead to the urban structure where municipal public finance is sustainable in a society with a decreasing population

• Project/Area Number: 26512009
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 公共政策
• Research Institution: Kindai University (2016); Oita University (2014-2015)
• Principal Investigator: IDA Tomoya 近畿大学, 経済学部, 教授 (50315313)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 小野 宏 大分大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (30381023)
• Research Collaborator: WILHELMSSON Mats スウェーデン王立工科大学, Center for Banking and Finance, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
• Keywords: 公共経済学 / 地域経済学 / 都市・地域計画 / 人口減少社会 / 地方分権 / 国際研究者交流 / 北欧

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In Japan, a society with a decreasing population are expected to cause the serious deterioration of municipal public finance, because the revenues shrink and the social security-related expenditures expand. The empirical studies in Europe and in the United States have already demonstrated a significant causality between urban structure and local public finance. Although there are numerous discussions on the influence of urban structure on the expenditures, no attempt is made to examine its effect of the revenues. This study then address the issue. Consequently, our empirical results indicate that the expansion of urban sprawl would raise not only the expenditures but also the revenues in Japanese municipalities.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] スウェーデン王立工科大学(スウェーデン)
• [Journal Article] 都市スプロールが地方自治体の 歳出入項目に及ぼす影響 - 都市構造の代理変数の検討とそれに基づく相関分析 - (2017)
  • Author(s): 小野宏・井田知也
  • Journal Title: 大分大学経済論集 Volume: 68 Pages: 31-60
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 人口減少社会の中で求められる行政サービス改革 (2016)
  • Author(s): 井田知也
  • Journal Title: 地方財政 Volume: 55 Pages: 4-13
  • NAID: 40020895441
• [Journal Article] 都市スプロールに伴い変化する地方公共費用の閾値回帰に基づく推計 (2016)
  • Author(s): 小野宏・井田知也
  • Journal Title: 地方分権に関する基本問題についての調査研究会報告書(専門分科会) Volume: - Pages: 139-170
  • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Urban sprawl and local public cost in Japan (2014)
  • Author(s): Tomoya Ida and Hiroshi Ono
  • Journal Title: Oita University Working paper Volume: 17 Pages: 1-12
  • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] The government expenditure-economic growth relation in Japan: an analysis by using the ADL test for threshold cointegration (2014)
  • Author(s): Hiroshi Ono
  • Journal Title: Applied Economics Volume: 46 Issue: 28 Pages: 3523-3531
  • DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2014.932046
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] The effect of urban sprawl on local public costs in Japan: a threshold regression approach (2016)
  • Author(s): 井田知也・小野宏
  • Organizer: 63rd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International
  • Place of Presentation: ミネアポリス(米国)
  • Year and Date: 2016-11-09
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Urban Sprawl and Local Public Cost in Japan (2015)
  • Author(s): 井田知也
  • Organizer: 71st Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance
  • Place of Presentation: ダブリン(アイルランド)
  • Year and Date: 2015-08-20
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Urban Sprawl and Local Public Costs in Japan (2014)
  • Author(s): 井田知也
  • Organizer: 西日本財政学会第51回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 山口大学 (山口県山口市)
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-05
• [Book] 経済学入門 (2017)
  • Author(s): 中村 保・大内田康徳・小野宏他
  • Total Pages: 296
  • Publisher: ミネルヴァ書房