Overview
This project aims to reveal the dynamics and correlation of performances of small, medium, and large firms and prices of goods, in relation to the growth of Japanese economy. Small and medium firms are key to the diversity of economics activities, which is crucial for sustained growth. An important management task for such firms is converting from being price takers to price leaders. This project will utilize various data, including goods and consumer prices, financial data of firms, and trading information between firms, to reveal the fundamental mechanism of price determination and firm dynamics from a network point of view, with the goal of finding a new growth strategy for small and medium enterprises.
February 19, 2014 - February 29, 2016
Major Research Results
2016
RIETI Discussion Papers
2015
RIETI Discussion Papers
- 16-E-046
"DebtRank Analysis of Financial Distress Propagation on a Production Network in Japan" (FUJIWARA Yoshi, TERAI Masaaki, FUJITA Yuji and SOUMA Wataru) - 16-E-044
"Analyses of Aggregate Fluctuations of Firm Networks Based on the Self-Organized Criticality Model and Control Theory" (INOUE Hiroyasu) - 16-E-026
"Econophysics Point of View of Trade Liberalization: Community dynamics, synchronization, and controllability as example of collective motions" (IKEDA Yuichi, AOYAMA Hideaki, IYETOMI Hiroshi, MIZUNO Takayuki, OHNISHI Takaaki, SAKAMOTO Yohei and WATANABE Tsutomu) - 15-E-070
"Application of the Concept of Entropy to Equilibrium in Macroeconomics" (AOYAMA Hideaki, IYETOMI Hiroshi, SOUMA Wataru and YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi)