2020 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
A Study of the Implications of Innovation Location Patterns for Economic Growth and National Welfare
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19K01638
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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) |
2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | R&D Offshoring / Industry Location / Employment / Productivity Growth |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This research theoretically studies how firms select geographic locations for R&D activities in an increasingly integrated world economy, and evaluates the costs and benefits of R&D offshoring for home and host countries, with a key focus on employment and productivity growth. The first stage of the project produced a general equilibrium model of international trade and productivity growth, in which firms select the best locations for innovation and production. To facilitate research progress, the order of the second and third stages was reversed, and an analysis of how changes in demographic structure affect productivity growth through the links between industry location patterns and national employment was completed. These research results have been summarized in a new 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 Papers: Davis, Colin, Ken-ichi Hashimoto, and Ken Tabata. (2020) "Demographic Structure, Knowledge Diffusion, and Endogenous Productivity Growth," Discussion Paper No. 1113, Institute of Social Science and Economic Research, Osaka University, 2020.
Publications: (i) Davis, Colin and Ken-ich Hashimoto. (2021) "Import Competition and Industry Location in a Small-Country Model of Productivity Growth," Review of International Economics, forthcoming. (ii) Davis, Colin and Ken-ich Hashimoto. (2021) "Tariffs, Agglomeration, and Endogenous Growth," The Kokumin-Keizai Zasshi (Journal of Economics & Business Administration) 223(1), 61-74.
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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 in the first and second years of the research project in preparation for publication in formal academic journals. Conditions allowing, research results will also be presented in international conferences. In addition, project members will be begin work on the development of a framework to examine the effects of R&D subsidy policy on the innovation and production location patterns that arise when firms vertical split the R&D process into tasks that can be outsourced internationally, as originally planned for the second stage of the research project.
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| Causes of Carryover |
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) has resulted in the cancellation of many international conferences that the research project members had been planning to attend as conference presenters. The budget that had been allocated for travel to and attendance of the cancelled conferences has been carried over to the third year of the research project, and conditions allowing will be used to attend international conferences with the aim of receiving feedback on research results.
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Research Products
(3 results)
