Comprehensive Economic Policies for Risk Management among Regions accompanied by the Formation of Common Markets in Asia

在这个项目中，我们研究了形成国际共同市场的国际贸易理论，处理共同市场形成所产生的风险的国际风险管理体系，以及应用共同市场形成和风险问题对亚洲经济体进行的实证研究。首先，在国际贸易研究方面，考虑到不完全竞争是现代经济的一个特征，我们研究了一般均衡贸易理论和战略性贸易政策。特别是，我们在一般均衡框架下研究了贸易模式和贸易收益。在风险管理研究方面，重点研究了与国际食品贸易有关的食品安全问题，研究了食品安全预警信息支持系统的建设。此外，还提出了构建环境技术风险预警平台的设想。在亚洲研究中，我们考察了东亚共同体形成的可能性，韩国和孟加拉国的安全供水系统，以及中国的地区差距问题。在人口大国印度和中国所在的亚洲，国家之间存在着巨大的食品、环境、能源等跨境风险。我们确认，这种类型的风险在不久的将来将变得极其严重。然而，亚洲包括许多发展中国家，对这些国家来说，最重要的目标是经济发展，这需要在这一领域形成共同市场。因此，共享与各种风险相关的信息，从而提出这样一个初步的风险预警支持系统是非常重要的。

In this project we investigate international trade theories in order to form international common markets, international risk management systems to deal with the risk generated by the formation of common markets, and empirical studies of Asian economies to apply the formation of common markets and risk problems.First of all, concerning the studies of international trade, taking account of the feature of imperfect competition, which is a characteristic of modem economy, we studied the general equilibrium trade theory as well as strategic trade policies. In particular, we studied the pattern of trade and the gains from trade in the general equilibrium frameworks. As for the studies of risk management, particular attention is paid to the safety of food relating to the international trade of food, we investigated the construction of information support systems of early warning to the safety of food. In addition to this, we also presented the tentative construction the platform of early warning to deal with environmental and technological risk. In the Asian studies, we investigate the possibility of the formation of East Asian Community, the safe water supply system in Korea and Bangladesh, and the problem of regional gap in China.In Asia where huge population countries, India and China, are located, there is a great trans-boundary risk of food, environment, energy resources, and so on among countries. We confirm that risk of this type would become extremely serious in near future. However Asia includes many developing countries and for those countries the most important object is an economic development which requires a formation of common markets in this area. Therefore, it is important to share the information relating various risk, so that we present such tentative support system for early warning to risk.