2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Study on Environmental Policies and International Rules of Trade and Investment under the Sophistication of Information and Communication Technology

Research Project

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Project/Area Number	19K21693
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Review Section	Medium-sized Section 7:Economics, business administration, and related fields
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	Jinji Naoto 京都大学, 経済学研究科, 教授 (60345452)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	東田啓作関西学院大学, 経済学部, 教授 (10302308) 蓬田守弘上智大学, 経済学部, 教授 (30286611) 鶴見哲也南山大学, 総合政策学部, 准教授 (50589364) 阪本浩章神戸大学, 経済学研究科, 准教授 (80758996) 川瀬剛志上智大学, 法学部, 教授 (60275302) 石川知子名古屋大学, 国際開発研究科, 教授 (20632392) 新宅公志広島修道大学, 経済科学部, 准教授 (30785697)
Project Period (FY)	2019-06-28 – 2022-03-31
Keywords	環境政策 / 国際貿易・投資 / 情報通信技術 / 国際協定
Outline of Final Research Achievements	We study the challenges caused by the sophistication of information and communication technology (ICT) regarding the current international rules on trade, investment, and the environment from the perspectives of economics and international economic law. We examine theoretically and empirically the effects of trade restrictions and monitoring on the trade of waste and second-hand goods, the relationship between monitoring and corporate compliance behavior due to environmental regulation, and the relationship between subjective well-being and consumption. Moreover, with regard to the issues on international rules on trade, investment, and the environment due to the sophistication of ICT, we investigate the effects and the design of policies, such as border carbon adjustment measures, policies to attract inward FDI, international environmental agreements, international investment law, and IUU fishing measures by the EU, theoretically and empirically.
Free Research Field	国際経済学・環境経済学
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	国際社会が直面する地球温暖化問題やエネルギー問題などの環境問題に対して，情報通信技術の高度化が新たな可能性と課題をもたらしている．本研究では，情報通信技術によって違法行動の監視が容易になる一方で，どこまで私的な経済活動を監視することが許容されるのかといった新たな課題を取り上げて，経済学と国際経済法学の研究者が協働して研究を行い，学術的意義の高い成果が得られた．特に，国境炭素調整措置や，国際環境協定，国際投資法，IUU 漁業対策等の関連する諸政策や国際協定に関して，従来の研究では十分に明らかにされてこなかった課題に取り組み，政策的含意に富んだ知見を示すことができた．