Estimating and Identifying Sources of Productivity Growth and Their Factor Determinants for the Japanese Economy

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380273
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic statistics
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
• Principal Investigator: KIM Sangho 立命館アジア太平洋大学, 国際経営学部, 教授 (20635461)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: TFP / Technical Change / Returns to Scale / Markup / Embodied Tech. Change / Tech. Efficiency Change / Allocative Eff. Change / Scale Efficiency Change

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research has developed theoretical models to estimate and identify total factor productivity and its factor determinants for the Japanese manufacturing industry. The research provides three different regression models that decompose productivity growth into technical progress and many other factors. Empirical results of the research provide various policy suggestions required to boost productivity growth for the Japanese economy. From the research, three papers are published in internationally refereed journal, along with one working paper. Working papers of the research had been presented at twelve international conferences.

Free Research Field

Economic Growth