General Equilibrium Analysis of Economy of Network and Agglomeration

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330087
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
• Principal Investigator: Okamoto Ryosuke 政策研究大学院大学, 政策研究科, 准教授 (60323945)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HOSOE Nobuhiro 政策研究大学院大学, 政策研究科, 准教授 (60313483) ; YOSHIDA Yuichiro 広島大学, 国際協力研究科, 教授 (70339919) ; YASUDA Yosuke 大阪大学, 経済学研究科(研究員), 准教授 (70463966) ; KIDOKORO Yukihiro 政策研究大学院大学, 政策研究科, 教授 (90283811)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 交通ネットワーク / 静脈物流 / 費用便益分析 / 応用一般均衡分析 / マッチング問題 / 集積の経済

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We investigated appropriate measures and schemes to develop infrastructure networks, consisting of airports, seaports, railroads, and highways, and developed a general equilibrium framework for real-world policy analysis firmly based on theories and empirical evidences. In our analysis, we focused on interactions among regionally-segmented markets and network effects that links industries with transportation systems. Specifically, we examined the inter-linkages between industrial location choices and transportation infrastructure, matching-problems between workers and organizations, techniques of cost-benefit analysis, etc.

Free Research Field

都市経済学