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2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Panel-data Analysis on Japan's Marketing Sector

Research Project

Project/Area Number 14530124
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Commerce
Research InstitutionKYOTO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

NARIU Tatsuhiko  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Economics, Professor, 経済学研究科, 教授 (80148296)

Project Period (FY) 2002 – 2003
Keywordsretail store density / efficiency / panel data / lack of successors / information / length o channel / wholesale / keiretsu
Research Abstract

Through the 1980's Japan was pointed to as having excessively many very small stores. Its number of retail stores peaked in 1982 at 1.72 million, and since then declined slightly. This research investigates the factors which influence the number of stores. The main results are, first, the decline in number of retail stores is primarily due to the diffusion of car ownership and expansion in average size of dwelling. These factors, by lowering households' costs of shopping for and storing goods, lowered the number of stores needed to assure efficiency in the sense of minimum social cost of distribution. Consequently, the decline in number of stores since the mid-1980's can be understood as an efficient adjustment process.
The transmission of information at each stage of distribution channel faces various restrictions. As various agents try to enter the channel to capitalize acquired information into the profit, the distribution channel results in being long. In this research, using the panel data of five consumer goods wholesale industries in Japan for 30 years, we investigate the determination of the number of wholesale steps. The main result is that the length of a wholesale distribution channel is determined by the weight of consumption-area wholesale dealers (CWD) and the progress of keiretsu affiliated relations.

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All Publications (12 results)

  • [Publications] 松井健二, 成生達彦: "我が国の小売店舗密度に関するパネル分析"マーケティングサイエンス. 12・1-2. 44-61 (2004)

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  • [Publications] 成生達彦, D.クラス: "並行輸入と経済厚生"国民経済雑誌. 189・5. 1-16 (2004)

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  • [Publications] 行本雅, 成生達彦: "京都における小売店舗の減少について"流通研究. 6・2. 1-14 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 河合良昭, 成生達彦: "消費外部性下での価格差別"経済学雑誌. 104・1. 35-44 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 成生達彦: "空間的数量競争と上限価格規制"流通研究. 6・1. 1-11 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 鈴木浩孝, 成生達彦: "建値制と経済厚生"国民経済雑誌. 188・1. 27-48 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Kenji, MATSUI, Tatsuhiko NARIU: "Panel Data Analysis of the Density of Retail Stores in Japan"Journal of Marketing Science. vol.12,no.1.2. 44-61

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  • [Publications] Tadashi YUKIMOTO, Tatsuhiko NARIU: "On the Reduction in the Number of Retail Outlets in Kyoto"Journal of Marketing & Distribution. vol.6,no.2. 1-14

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  • [Publications] Yoshiaki KAWAI, Tatsuhiko NARIU: "Third-Degree Price Discrimination under the Consumption Externaiity"Journal of Economics. vol.104,no.1. 35-44

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  • [Publications] Tatsuhiko NARIU, David FLATH: "Pararrel Inports and the Economic Welfare"Journal of Economics & Business. vol.189,no.5. 1-16

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  • [Publications] Tatsuhiko NARIU: "Intrabrand Spatial Quantity Competition and Maximum Price Stipulations"Journal of Marketing& Distribution. vol.6,no.1. 1-11

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  • [Publications] Hirotaka SUZUKI, Tatsuhiko NARIU: "Maximum Price Stipulations and Economics Welfare"Journal of Economics & Business. vol.188,no.1. 27-48

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Published: 2005-04-19  

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