Urban economic models with spatial and temporal agglomeration economies

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K18136
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Civil engineering project/Traffic engineering
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: Takayama Yuki 金沢大学, 環境デザイン学系, 准教授 (90612648)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 交通・立地統合モデル / 集積の経済 / 安定性 / ポテンシャル関数

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to develop urban economic models that can describe the spatial and temporal distribution of economic activities. To this end, I extended the traditional residential location models to introduce spatial/temporal agglomeration economies and characterized their equilibria by invoking the properties of a potential game. This study also presented an efficient approach for obtaining the stable equilibrium and parameter estimation and calibration procedures, which are necessary to apply these models to a wide variety of policy evaluations. By using them, I evaluated the effects of several urban policies.

Free Research Field

工学