2021 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
A Study of the Implications of Innovation Location Patterns for Economic Growth and National Welfare
| Project/Area Number |
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, 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 / Endogenous Growth / International Trade / Theoretical Economics / International Economics |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This research project offers a theoretical study of the determinants of firm location. In an increasingly integrated world economy, firm-level location patterns of production and innovation have important implications for regional employment and productivity growth. In the first year, the project completed an analysis of how economic integration through lower trade costs and greater knowledge diffusion affects firm-level decisions for the location of production and R&D. In the second year, the project explored how changes in demographic structure affect productivity growth through the links between industry location patterns and national employment. In the third year, the project has investigated the relationship that arises between unionization and productivity growth when firms are free to shift the location of production. The results show that the effect of changes in union bargaining power on economic growth depend on the established industry location pattern and whether unions are wage or employment oriented. The research results have been summarized in a new discussion paper.
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