第169回「制度と組織の経済学」研究会 (共催：IPP研究会）

日時:　2025年6月20日（金）13:30 ～ 15:00
開催方法: オンラインにて開催
申込:　yuri-kitabayashi@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp（東京大学中林研究室北林様宛)

Presenter:
山﨑潤一氏（京都大学大学院経済学研究科）

Title: “Where Does Regime Change Lead to Industrialization?”
(with Masahiro Kubo, Ken Miura, and Michihiro Nakamura)

We examine how the Meiji Restoration, a major regime change, shaped urban growth in Japan. We focus on two channels: administrative centralization and a shift in the geographic distribution of political elites—from samurai to high-asset taxpayers. Using digitized maps from the 1900s and 1930s, we show that cities designated as new local capitals expanded in area, but distance to these capitals had no effect on the growth of other cities. Public goods were also distributed evenly across space, reflecting the spatial distribution of the high-asset taxpayers. Non-castle towns, deprioritized under the old regime due to having fewer samurai, grew more after the change. Administrative and political transitions jointly shaped the economic geography of the non-agricultural sector. Abstract：山﨑潤一氏