The Theoretical Research on Human Capital, Trade, and Economic Growth

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530251
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Applied economics
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: MA YAN 神戸大学, 経営学研究科, 准教授 (10403221)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 経済成長 / 人的資本 / 研究開発 / 所得分配

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project explores the engines of economic growth in both developed and developing countries. More specifically, I have investigated the following topics: (1) The impacts of the distribution of human capital on economic growth and income distribution in developed countries; (2) The timing of an innovating firm to relocate the production of a new product from the developed country to the developing country, and the interaction between the production location and the rate of quality improvement; (3) The impacts of two types of knowledge linkages on the internationally fragmented production process and global welfare, respectively; (4) The impacts of task characteristics on the internationally fragmented production process.
In dealing with each topic, I developed a specific trade model with some new features that have not been considered in the existing literature. Owing to these new features, I successfully obtained some findings that would contribute to the literature.

Free Research Field

国際経済学