Empirical and Policy Analysis of Inter-(intra-)regional Telecommunication Structure and Regional Endogenous Economic Growth

本研究项目在日本各地区经济的县级层面，对地区间(地区内)电信与地区内生经济增长之间的关系进行了实证和政策分析。它表明，一个地区的内生经济增长潜力与该地区内部的电信以及该地区与其他地区之间的电信密切相关。特别是，该区域与大都市地区的电信对其工业生产率产生了积极影响。这意味着一个地区与大都市圈之间的通信将给该地区带来内生经济增长，这对人们制定21世纪的区域经济增长政策具有重要意义。

This research project conducts an empirical and policy analysis on the relationship between inter-(intra-)regional telecommunications and regional endogenous economic growth at the prefectural level of the Japanese regional economies. It shows that a region's potential of endogenous economic growth is closely related with the telecommunications within the region and those between it and others. In particular, the region's telecommunications with metropolitan areas have positive effects on its industrial productivity. This implies that telecommunications between a region and metropolitan areas will bring about endogenous economic growth to the region, which has valuable implications for people to make regional economic growth policy in the 21st century.