The role of primary industries to maintain remote island economy

本研究(1)建立了由N类产业构成的区域经济收入确定模型，(2)提出了一种非调查性方法，从地级区域投入产出表生成具有竞争力的进口型区域投入产出表，(3)利用这些非调查方法，将偏远海岛的区域收入分解为中央政府支出所产生的收入、区外净收入、出口、消费和投资与收入无关的收入，并考虑了边远海岛经济实现经济独立的可能性。(4)同时，定量分析了边远海岛经济的特点及其形成因素。本研究还评估了作为偏远岛屿主要基础出口产业的糖业所产生的地区收入，以及(6)使用陈述偏好方法：引出选择概率方法和传统陈述选择方法估计了日本保护国内食糖的支付意愿。

This study (1) modeled income determination of the regional economy consisted of n types of industries, (2) proposed a non-survey method to generate competitive import type regional input-output table from the prefectural one, (3) then utilizing them, decomposed regional income of the remote islands into the incomes induced by the central government spending, net income from out of the region, export, consume and investment independent from income, and considered the possibility of economic independence for the remote island economy, (4) at the same time, analyzed characteristics of the remote island economy and their formation factors quantitatively. This study also (5) evaluated regional income generated by the sugar industry which is the major local basic exporting industry in remote islands, and (6) estimated the willingness to pay for protecting domestic sugar in Japan using stated preference methods: elicited choice probability approach and traditional stated choice approach.