2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The role of primary industries to maintain remote island economy
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23580319
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Agro-economics
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| Research Institution | Osaka University of Economics |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TOKUNAGA Mitsutoshi 大阪経済大学, 経済学部, 教授 (30180136)
WATANABE Masahide 大阪経済大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (50434783)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 離島 / 地域内所得決定モデル / 地域産業連関分析 / 砂糖産業 / 表明選好法 / 国産糖保護へのWTP |
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| Research Abstract |
This study (1) modeled income determination of the regional economy consisted of n types of industries, (2) proposed a non-survey method to generate competitive import type regional input-output table from the prefectural one, (3) then utilizing them, decomposed regional income of the remote islands into the incomes induced by the central government spending, net income from out of the region, export, consume and investment independent from income, and considered the possibility of economic independence for the remote island economy, (4) at the same time, analyzed characteristics of the remote island economy and their formation factors quantitatively. This study also (5) evaluated regional income generated by the sugar industry which is the major local basic exporting industry in remote islands, and (6) estimated the willingness to pay for protecting domestic sugar in Japan using stated preference methods: elicited choice probability approach and traditional stated choice approach.
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