majority of productivity growth pertaining to regional economies is explainable by improvements to accessibility. Improving … important for formulating regional economic policies. Specifically, it describes new analytical approaches using productivity … accessibility for regions reduces transportation costs between them and strengthens agglomeration economies, which, in turn, enable …

Japan. Concretely, on the backward linkage, capital agglomeration (the number of firms) has a significant and positive … foreign travel, and the white-collar share. The empirical analysis in Japan supports the theoretical result that labor …