Multi-Regional Input-Output Analysis of the Japanese Economy

This book presents multi-regional input-output tables from the prefectural level as well as non-survey methods for creating the tables that divide a prefecture into sub-regions―into municipalities, for instance. In this book, the reader will find a survey of Japan's multilayered input–output tables and the research employing them, with an explanation of how to compile and apply a multi-regional input–output table for the country’s economy. Also included is research on currently important topics in municipal economies, carried out by municipality-based input–output analysis.

Many input–output tables already have been compiled for each of the 47 prefectures of Japan as well as for major municipalities such as ordinance-designated cities, i.e., with populations greater than 500,000. The input–output table, or “benchmark table”, for the entire country, which is jointly compiled by 10 ministries and agencies including the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, provides the essential information for the compilation of regional input-output tables. In recent years, there has been a great deal of interest in the estimation of municipality-based input–output tables to help provide perspective for regional economic revitalization and evidence-based policymaking.

This book, with its information on how to create and apply multiregional input–output tables, is useful for graduate students, researchers, and local government officials who are concerned with this field.

Mitsuo Yamada is an emeritus professor at Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan, and continues his research activities as a research fellow at the Institute of Economics, Chukyo University. He has over 40 years of research experience in the fields of econometric research and input–output analysis in regional and international economics and energy and environmental economics at Saga University, Mie University, and Chukyo University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in economics at Nagoya University. He also served as a visiting researcher at the Economic Research Institute, Economic Planning Agency (currently the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) of the Cabinet Office) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. He served as a president of the Pan-Pacific Association of Input–Output Studies (PAPAIOS) and as a board member of the Japan Association for Applied Economics (JAAE). He played a role in the construction of the national input–output tables of Japan as a member of the technical advisory committee, and contributed to the creation of the multiregional input–output tables of Chubu region as a research advisor of Chubu Region Institute for Social and Economic Research.