@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004741, author = {片岡, 光彦 and Kataoka, Mitsuhiko}, journal = {国際開発研究フォーラム, Forum of International Development Studies}, month = {Aug}, note = {The effects of public capital allocation on regional economies in postwar Japan has often been the subject of theoretical discussions and empirical research due to the fact that Japan has been able to decrease large regional income differentials while achieving remarkable economic growth. One of the pioneering works in this field, Mera(1973), estimated prefectural production functions and derived the marginal productivities of employment, private capital, and public capital. Further, Yamano and Ohkawara(2000)examined the effects of the regional allocation of public capital on national growth and regional inequalities through numerical simulations of several policy alternatives in the post oil-shock period. The objective of this study is also to examine the effects of public capital on regional economies; however, it focuses more on pre oil-shock period. This will be done using various measurement and simulation techniques derived from the previous studies. One of the major findings in this study is that the government alternatively took efficiency-oriented policies and equity-oriented policies for public capital allocation in the postwar era. Moreover, numerical simulations demonstrate that an efficiency-oriented policy under an assumption of income-sensitive interregional labor migration simultaneously pursues to achieve the higher national output and lessen the regional inequality. This finding confirms the balancing regional income inequalities in the rapid economic growth period of the 1960s.}, pages = {141--161}, title = {戦後日本の地域間経済格差の推移と公共投資の地域配分}, volume = {24}, year = {2003} }