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Impacts of High-Speed Rail Construction on Urban Agglomerations : Evidence from Kyushu in Japan

Okamoto, Chigusa - 2019

High-speed rail integrates regions and cities, and thus can possibly have significant impacts on the distribution of economic activities. Using the opening and extensions of a high-speed rail, Shinkansen, in Kyushu, Japan, we examine its effects on the distribution of economic activities across...

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Does labor diversity cause agglomeration in Japan? : an NEG approach with a covariance structure analysis

Ihara, Ryusuke; Yamamoto, Shizu - 2012

Using a simplified NEG model, we investigates the relation between labor diversity and agglomeration. In the theoretical part, we assume the following two-region model. Homogenous consumption goods are produced using a constant returns technology with homogenous capital and heterogenous workers....

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Chapter 65. Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in Japan and China

Fujita, Masahisa; Mori, Tomoya; Henderson, J. Vernon; … - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2911-2977). 2004

In this chapter we look at the spatial distribution of economic activities in China and Japan. Japan has excellent data … what they imply for our understanding of the role of different cities in the urban hierarchy. For China the approach is … different. With the radical institutional changes since 1978 moving China away from being a planned economy, there is little …

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Municipal sizes and municipal restructuring in Japan

Nakagawa, Kuninori - 2014

In this article, we quantitatively analyze changes in the size distribution of municipal jurisdictions in Japan by using their rank-size distribution to capture the change. In Japan, the central government sometimes enacts large-scale municipal mergers, aimed at the creating of municipalities of...

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The Economic Consequences of a War between PRC and Japan : A Simulation

Ruiz Estrada, Mario Arturo - 2014

-Model to evaluate an imaginary war between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Japan …

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The Effects of a Possible War between Japan and China : A Geo-Political-Economic Simulation

Ruiz Estrada, Mario Arturo - 2014

and China. The main reason to write this paper is based on the recent maritime border dispute between Japan and China in … the year 2013. The maritime border conflict is originated by the claim of China on the control of the Japanese islands … measure the geo-political-economic effects that involve an armed conflict between Japan and China …

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