International Trade and Regional Economics in the Era of Globalization---An Analysis based on the Viewpoint of Spatial Economics

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380282
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: Zeng Dao-Zhi 東北大学, 情報科学研究科, 教授 (60284345)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 空間経済 / 国際貿易 / 地域経済 / 資源都市 / 自国市場効果 / offshoring / 非関税障壁 / 空間格差

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project studied international trade and regional economics from the viewpoint of spatial economics. I considered the following problems. (1) To disclose the inconsistency between the theoretical and empirical results on the home market effects; (2) To show how offshoring pattern changes in the globalizing era; (3) To analyze some policies for resource-based cities to promote their regional economies when the transport costs of resource goods fall; (4) To reformulate the Hotelling problem when the production is costly; (5) To examine the international tax competition based on some nontariff barriers; (6) To compare how the spatial inequalities change when trade costs of products and mobility costs of capital decline. The results are summarized and published as a Japanese book and 7 English papers in international journals.

Free Research Field

空間経済学