題 目：A CGE Study of Economic Restoration after a Natural Disaster
主講人：MASATO YAMAZAKI博士(Nagoya University)
時 間：2013年11月10日（星期日）16:45
地 點：主樓241會議室
主講人簡介：
Masato Yamazaki is an Assistant Professor at Disaster Mitigation Research Center of Nagoya University. Dr. Yamazaki received his Ph.D. in Environmental Study from Sophia University Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies in 2010, M.S. in Economics from University of Hyogo in 2007, B.A. in Economics from Ritsumeikan University in 2004. Dr. Yamazaki worked on international trade of recycled products with for his dissertation. After the graduation, He worked at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) until 2012. Currently He is doing research on the economic impact of a natural disaster at Disaster Mitigation Research Center of Nagoya University. Through the career, He has been developing several economic simulation models evaluating the effects of environmental policies or a natural disaster on an economy.
內容簡介：
In this study, we explore the characteristics of economic damage caused by a natural disaster and subsequent restoration by using a multi-regional recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. A CGE model describes a whole economy as a non-linear simultaneous equation problem, and isconstructed based on traditional microeconomic theory and an input-output (I-O) table. OurCGE model divides Japan into eight regions (i.e., Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kinki, Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu), with 23 industries in each region. A natural disaster is modeled as an exogenous reduction in the value of available capital stock and the productivity of the remaining capital stock and labor force. The process of economic restoration is modeled as capital accumulation in the affected regions through endogenous investment that can come from all regions. The affected productivity is assumed to recover exogenously.
