2016 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Industry Concentration, Fully Endogenous Productivity Growth, and Economic Development
| Project/Area Number |
15K03367
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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, 准教授 (70403219)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 経済成長 |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The aim of this research is to theoretically investigate how the geographic concentration of industrial activity affects an economy's prospects for economic development through accelerated productivity growth, within a globalized world economy that features increasing levels of economic integration between regions and nations. In order to facilitate the smooth progress of the research, the order of the second and third stages of the project have been reversed. As such, the base analysis has been completed for a model that allows for a study of how industry concentration affects the potential for convergence of a small open country with the world economy through productivity growth. Project members are currently preparing to present these results in workshops and as 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
Discussion Paper: Davis, Colin and Hashimoto, Ken-ichi (2016) "Innovation and Manufacturing Offshoring with Fully Endogenous Productivity Growth" Discussion Paper No. 1636, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University. Presentation: "Innovation and Manufacturing Offshoring with Fully Endogenous Productivity Growth", European Trade Study Group, Aalto University Vatt Institute, Finland, 2016. Presentation: "Innovation and Manufacturing Offshoring with Fully Endogenous Productivity Growth", RITM Lunch Seminar, University Paris-Sud, France, 2016.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The project members will continue to revise the research results of the discussion papers that were created during the first year of the project in preparation for publication in formal academic journals. In addition, the results of the second year of the project will be formalized in the form of discussion papers that can be used in presentations at research seminars and workshops. Finally, project members will begin work on the third stage of the research with the preparation of a theoretical model to investigate convergence in productivity growth between countries hosting both low-tech and high-tech firms that are free to shift production and innovation activities between countries.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Personal expenditure and renumeration and miscellaneous expenditure were less than expected.
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| Expenditure Plan for Carryover Budget |
The funds will be used to cover the submission fees associated with submitting research results for review for publication in formal academic journals.
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