Agglomeration Economies, New Industrial Clusters and Japanese Multinational Firms’ Location in East Asia: Perspectives on Spatial Economics

ISBN-13: 9784431555902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 196 str.

Suminori Tokunaga

Opis

This book shows that agglomeration economies and the geography of the supply chain are particularly important for the Japanese manufacturing industry in Japan and East Asia. For that industry, the author estimated the flexible translog production function using four-digit SIC industry panel data and panel data of the indices of Ellison and Glaeser (1997) agglomeration with the same industry and coagglomeration with different industry groups for 1985 2010. From the estimated results, it was found that there are positive impacts of agglomeration economies on production, especially the externality coagglomeration effect and very slight increasing returns to scale in the Japanese manufacturing industry. Especially, externality as a coagglomeration effect was shown to contribute to production in Japan s manufacturing over the period that was examined.Next, the estimation of the location for Japanese industry foreign direct investment (FDI) for 1985 2010 in East Asia using the new economic geography (NEG) model was shown. From these results of estimation of location factors, it was found that the agglomeration economies, market potential and supplier access are particularly important in the location choice of the Japanese manufacturing industry in East Asia.Finally, certain policy implications were obtained from these studies. For the Japanese manufacturing industry, including a large number of global firms, it is important that there are agglomeration economies such as agglomeration with the same industry and coagglomeration with different industry groups in the same region. How to construct such industry agglomerations is an important policy challenge. In other words, innovation is promoted by these horizontal and vertical agglomerations, and construction of a production pyramid with an efficient production linkage that is, the construction of new, efficient industrial clusters is an important policy issue."

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Overview of Industrial Agglomeration and Location of Japanese FDI.- Chapter 3 Agglomeration Economies of Assembly-type Manufacturing Industry in Japan.- Chapter 4 Agglomeration Effects and Location of Japanese FDI in East Asia.- Chapter 5 Market potential, Supplier Access and Location of Japanese FDI in East Asia.- Chapter 6 Agglomeration Effects and Location of Japanese FDI in China.- Chapter 7 Market Potential, Supplier Access and Location of Japanese FDI in China.- Chapter 8 Agglomeration Economies of Manufacturing Industry in China.- Chapter 9 Conclusion.

O autorze

Suminori Tokunaga, the president of the Japan Section of Regional Science Association International (JSRSAI) for 2021–2022, is Professor of Regional Economics in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Reitaku University, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan. He is also Professor Emeritus at University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, and formerly Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences at University of Tsukuba, Japan. He is the author or co-author of three books: Landownership and Residential Land Use in Urban Economies (1996, Springer-Verlag Tokyo); Model Analysis of Automobile Environmental Policy (2008, Bunshindo, Tokyo, in Japanese);  and Spatial economic modelling of megathrust earthquake in Japan (2017, co-authored with Budy P. Resosudarmo, Springer Nature Singapore, Singapore).

Blurb

This book shows that agglomeration economies, new industrial clusters, and Japanese multinational firms’ location are particularly important for the Japanese manufacturing industry in Japan and East Asia. For that industry, the author first estimated the flexible translog production function using four-digit SIC industry panel data and panel data of the indices of Ellison and Glaeser (1997) agglomeration with the same industry and coagglomeration with different industry groups for 1985–2000. From the estimated results, it was found that there are positive impacts of agglomeration economies on production, especially the externality coagglomeration effect and very slight increasing returns to scale in the Japanese manufacturing industry. Next, the estimation of the location for Japanese industry foreign direct investment (FDI) for 1986–2009 in East Asia using the new economic geography (NEG) model was shown. From these results of estimation of location factors, it was found that the agglomeration economies, market potential and supplier access are particularly important in the location choice of the Japanese manufacturing industry in East Asia.  Finally, as Japan’s overall population has been declining since around 2010, the author was to build new industry clusters with digital technologies and elucidate their economic effects to overcome the negative economic impact of declining population and the COVID-19 pandemic using a dynamic four-region computable general equilibrium (D4SCGE) model. The innovation is promoted by these horizontal and vertical agglomerations, and construction of a production pyramid with an efficient production linkage—that is, the construction of new, efficient industrial clusters—is an important policy issue.