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Agglomeration Economies, New Industrial Clusters and Japanese Multinational Firms’ Location in East Asia

Perspectives on Spatial Economics

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Authors:
  1. Suminori Tokunaga

    1. Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Reitaku University, Kashiwa, Japan

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  • Presents an empirical study of the agglomeration economies in Japan’s manufacturing industry
  • Analysis of Japanese MNFs’ location decisions in East Asia using the conditional logit model
  • Analysis of new industrial clusters with digital technologies under the COVID-19 pandemic and declining population

Part of the book series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives (NFRSASIPER, volume 60)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. A Spatial and Economic Analysis of Agglomeration, Multinational Firms’ Location, and New Industrial Clusters

    • Suminori Tokunaga
    Pages 1-20

  3. Industrial Agglomeration and Agglomeration Economies in Japan’s Manufacturing Industries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Spatial Concentration, Market Potential, and Agglomeration Effect in Japan’s Manufacturing Industry

      • Suminori Tokunaga
      Pages 23-64

    3. Measuring Agglomeration Economies in Japan’s Manufacturing Industry: Agglomeration and Coagglomeration Indices Approach

      • Suminori Tokunaga
      Pages 65-134

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 561-614
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About this book

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 theagglomeration 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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Reitaku University, Kashiwa, Japan

    Suminori Tokunaga

About the author

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).

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