Evaluating the Benefits of Investments in International Public Goods

1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 07555171
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 試験
• Research Field: Civil and environmental engineering
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: HIDANO Noboru Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, 大学院・社会理工学研究科, 教授 (90111658)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HAYASHIYAMA Yasuhisa Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technolog, 大学院・社会理工学研究科, 助手 (20260531) ; HIGUCHI Youichiro Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Information Science and Engine, 大学院・情報理工学研究科, 助教授 (60198992) ; UEDA Takayuki Gifu University, Faculty of Engineering, 工学部, 助教授 (20232754)
• Project Period (FY): 1995 – 1996
• Keywords: Benefit Evaluation / New Infrastructure

Research Abstract

The purpose of this study was twofold. Firstly, the study clarified the optimal provision of international information networks within the context of the two-country general equilibrium model with special emphasis on network externality i.e.congestion and the scope of network. Secondly, it discussed empirically the role of international cooperation in order to provide desirable international information networks by numerical simulations with the US and Japanese data.
In conclusion, this study showed the optimal cost allocation share structure of international information networks.