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Today, many people live in cities, affecting each other, and enjoy various economy of urbanization. Moreover, cities, with transportation and other networks, constitute a large system with flow of goods, service, and people among them. Focusing on the theory of city and industrial agglomeration, this research group is devoted to clarify the structure and the dynamic evolving process of spatial economy including city, region, and international trade. We are also interested in the related policy analysis. For this purpose, as one of the characteristics of our research group, interdisciplinary approach called ‘regional science’ is employed to tackle with the widespread city problems from local conflict to global issues. The main discipline to be employed includes urban economics, regional economics, international economics, and OR. The current main research topics are as follows.
- Spatial economics
We aim to clarify the economic mechanism of city formation and industrial agglomeration. We are interested in not only theoretic research but also its applications in more realistic problems such as regional competition and cooperation.
- Networks and location choice
Measuring structure of various networks describing transportation, inter-firm transaction, social interaction between people, and other economic activities, we investigate their effects on economics agglomeration by both theoretical and empirical approaches. We also examine their policy implications.
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