Construction of a multi-regional input-output table for Nagoya metropolitan area, Japan

Artikel

Japan has many input-output tables, national and regional. We focus on the Nagoya metropolitan area, in which Toyota Motors is headquartered along with many industries manufacturing transport equipment, machine tools and other machinery. This area is included in the region covered by three prefectures; Aichi, Gifu, and Mie. To construct a multi-regional input-output table from these prefectures, we first break down each prefecture table with 186 sectors into several smaller sub-regional tables. Then we combine each table into one multi-regional input output table, consisting of 14 sub-regions. Transaction values among sub-regions of each sector are estimated by the gravity-RAS method, in which the initial values are obtained by the gravity model. Using the multi-regional table, we discuss the structural characteristics of the Nagoya metropolitan area. We then show a way to cope with the various inconsistencies of regional definitions, administrative and economic, in the input-output analysis.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Journal of Economic Structures ; ISSN: 2193-2409 ; Volume: 4 ; Year: 2015 ; Pages: 1-18 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; General Regional Economics: Econometric and Input-Output Models; Other Models ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
• Subject: Multi-regional input-output table ; Gravity-RAS method ; Average Propagation Lengths ; Nagoya metropolitan area ; Crosshauling

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Yamada, Mitsuo
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Springer
• (where): Heidelberg
• (when): 2015

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1186/s40008-015-0022-7
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/147210
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET