A CIGE Model for Agricultural Liberalization by Two-region Framework

This paper examines the possibility of incorporating models of free migration and regional-urban framework into a CIGE (computable intertemporal general equilibrium) model, and presents “an operational model of national formation", in which we can simulate and depict the configuration of regional-urban land use affected by the forthcoming liberalized macroeconomic circumstances i.e., the step-by-step reduction of tariff on imported goods. It is impossible for us to evaluate the recent Japanese macroeconomic direction until we devise the model introducing the intertemporal system as a kind of import substitution policy such that a target year of its balanced trade account is considered