中国の高速道路網の建設と産業発展の実証分析

我进行了交通基础设施影响评价的正在进行的研究。研究领域的重点主要集中在中国身上。我修改了两篇关于中国公路网影响评价的稿件(合著)。其中一篇论文最终被《区域科学论文(2015年9月8日接受)》录取，另一篇正在接受《区域科学杂志》的第三轮评审。2015年5月，我应邀在湖南大学(中国)就我的高速公路项目发表演讲。此外，我还完成了另外两篇关于日本经济和交通基础设施影响的论文(联合工作)。我受邀于2015年11月13日在波特兰(OR)举行的城市经济协会年会上发表演讲。本研究是关于新干线建设对日本人口动态的影响评估。交通基础设施是一个涉及公共财政的非常重要的项目。一方面，这类基础设施的投资通常是巨大的，因此仔细调查其社会回报对于平衡公共财政是重要的。另一方面，运输成本是商品生产/贸易(农业和制造业商品)和人们日常成本(通勤成本、跨地区旅行成本)的关键因素成本，投资于交通基础设施是提高社会生产率的好方法。

I conducted the in-progress research on impact evaluation of transport infrastructure. The focus of study area is primary in China. I revised two manuscripts (joint work) on the impact evaluation of China's highway network. One of the manuscripts was finally accepted by "Papers in Regional Science (accepted on Sept. 8, 2015)" and another one is now under third round review at "Journal of Regional Science". In May 2015, I was invited to give a presentation at Hunan University (China) on my highway projects.In addition, I finished another two papers (joint work) on Japanese economy and the impact of transport infrastructure. And I am invited to give a presentation at Urban Economics Association Annual Meeting at Portland (OR) on November 13, 2015. The research is on the impact evaluation of Shinkansen construction on Japan's population dynamics.The transport infrastructure is a very important project related to public finance. On the one hand, the investment on such kinds of infrastructure is generally huge, thus a careful investigation of its social return is important to have a balanced public finance. On the other hand, transport cost is a key factor cost for both goods production/trade (agricultural and manufacturing goods) and people's daily costs (commute cost, cross-regional travel cost) , investment on transport infrastructure is a good way to improve social productivity.