A research on the upgrading of China's industrial agglomeration: An interdisciplinary approach of spatial economics and area study

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330072
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Applied economics
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: Hioki Shiro 東北大学, 経済学研究科(研究院), 教授 (80312528)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 丁 可 独立行政法人日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所, その他部局等, 研究員 (10450545) ; 唐 成 中央大学, 経済学部, 教授 (20424187) ; 曽 道智 東北大学, 情報科学研究科, 教授 (60284345) ; 中島 賢太郎 東北大学, 経済学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (60507698) ; 陳 清目 東北大学, 経済学研究科(研究院), 講師 (90626102)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 中国 / 産業集積 / クラスター / 空間経済学 / グローバル・バリュー・チェーン / イノベーション / 知識 / 情報フロー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research program investigated the upgrading of China's industrial agglomeration using an interdisciplinary approach of spatial economics and area study. The results of our researches can be summarized as follows: 1. We built many spatial economic models including a multi-country or multi-regional model in which the level of wage is endogenously determined with capital movement; 2. We conducted many econometric investigations including an analysis assessing the impacts of new highway constructions over the Chinese regional economy; and 3. an analysis elucidating the mechanism as to the accumulation of soft information in the relational banking by local banks in China's garment industrial clusters; 4. We made unique case studies focusing on the knowledge and information sharing between global platform-vendors and local mobile phone-set manufactures in Pearl river delta region of China so that we clarified the upgrading mechanisms of China's mobile phone-set industry.

Free Research Field

アジア経済論、とくに現代中国経済論