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Particularly telling examples of large transport infrastructure investments are investments in high-speed rail. This column shows that the Shinkansen has had a substantial effect on Japan’s spatial distribution of employment. The relative position of municipalities within the network and their underlying location fundamentals are essential in understanding why the effects of an extensive infrastructure are positive or negative at the local level.. The economic and social consequences of investments in transport infrastructure generate heated academic and policy debates because they typically involve costly investments that are supposed to yield high payoffs. Investments in high-speed rail (HSR) are particularly telling examples of large transport infrastructure investments. High-speed trains usually run at speeds exceeding 250km/h and could be competitors to the airplane for medium-distance travel. Within the last ten years, China has developed the most extensive HSR network in the world (Egger et al. 2020), which is now about 35,000km and still expanding. In Europe, there are concrete plans to open HSR lines between London and Manchester in the UK and between Warsaw and Tallinn in the Baltic, while the Spanish government has an ambitious plan to expand its HSR network to 7,000 km, which is more than double its current length. The US currently has one HSR under construction between Los Angeles and San Francisco and has plans to upgrade the existing Northeast Corridor line to operate at a higher speed. Given the high costs of building HSR lines, it is surprising that the question of whether and how HSR affects the spatial distribution of economic activity has not been satisfactorily answered. As explained by Redding and Turner (2015), there are two major methodological issues in assessing the impact of new transport infrastructure on specific regions. One is the ‘chicken and egg’ problem, as regions with high transport needs are more likely to receive infrastructure. The other is that the effects of infrastructure on individual localities are hard to predict because it is unclear whether infrastructure will attract new activities or displace activities from or to other regions. These difficulties probably explain why the empirical evidence on the expected benefits of large investments in transport infrastructure is mixed. In particular, it is still unclear whether and which locations benefit from being connected (or unconnected) to the transport network. In a recent paper (Hayakawa et al. 2021), we focus on Japan, which has one of the oldest HSR networks in the world – the Shinkansen. There are two main reasons why studying the Shinkansen (which means ‘new trunk line’) is important. First, out of 160 million passengers per year, a very large share (about 65% in 2010) are technical workers and business travellers. Such a high number strongly suggests that the Shinkansen may be considered as a transportation mode that significantly affects firms' location choices through the travel of non-production workers, whose share in Japan increased from 22% to 41% between 1952 and 2015. Second, the first Shinkansen lines were built more than 50 years ago, so that one may expect their long-run effects on the Japanese economy to have materialised. To this end, we develop a spatial quantitative model (Note 1). In this model, business-to-business travel can take place by train and by road (for example using a car or truck). Similarly, workers can commute by train and by road using a car or bus. Using data on municipalities in Japan, we show that travel time by train affects business-to-business linkages, whereas travel time by road does not. This finding shows that the Shinkansen plays a crucial role in sustaining production networks in Japan. Furthermore, the model incorporates agglomeration economies, implying that firms are more productive in dense urban areas. Using the model’s parameters, we can undertake a so-called scenario analysis. We consider two experiments. In the first scenario, all planned Shinkansen lines are realised. The second one considers the unlikely situation that the entire Shinkansen network is removed. The results of these counterfactuals highlight a few critical outcomes. In the first experiment, the planned Shinkansen extensions generate a substantial welfare gain. Without them, welfare in Japan would decrease by more than 5% (Note 2). Furthermore, by improving the overall accessibility, the Shinkansen has made Tokyo, Osaka-Kyoto and Nagoya more attractive. The effect is substantial for Nagoya (i.e. an 11% increase in employment) because the improved connectivity magnifies the ‘hub’ function of this city, located in between the two largest Japanese metropolitan areas. By and large, constructing a Shinkansen line is beneficial to connected urban areas and detrimental to unconnected areas, but local effects can be quite different. Figure 1. Counterfactual Experiments: Spatial Distribution of Employment The second experiment shows that removing the Shinkansen would have substantial negative welfare effects as welfare would decrease by 6.5%. Tokyo and Kyoto-Osaka would be significantly larger (i.e. about 6.5% and 4.5%, respectively), while Nagoya would be much smaller (about 25%). That Tokyo and Kyoto-Osaka have become smaller due to the Shinkansen may be considered surprising, but note that firms now can set up their headquarters in cheaper locations, while still be able to access the large markets of Tokyo and Kyoto-Osaka. These results highlight that the relative position of municipalities within transport networks and their underlying location fundamentals are essential in understanding why the effects of an extensive infrastructure are positive or negative. Hence, the provision of new and efficient, but expensive, transport infrastructure is not always beneficial to individual regions. Low fixed costs and an increase in relative accessibility are both necessary for a region to profit from an HSR connection. Overall, business interactions are key to understanding the geographic distribution of economic activity. To be precise, HSR plays a pivotal role in sustaining these interactions and has sizable effects on the geographic distribution of economic activity within Japan. This article first appeared on www.VoxEU.org on April 8, 2021. Reproduced with permission. Footnote(s) ^ More specifically, firms choose their locations and produce under both internal and external increasing returns, while workers choose where to live and where to work. ^ Here we ignore any costs, so this analysis should not be considered as an overall cost-benefit analysis of HSR. Reference(s) Egger, P, G Loumeau and N Loumeau (2020), "Unbridled transport infrastructure growth in China," VoxEU.org, 3 November. Hayakawa, K, H R A Koster, T Tabuchi and J-F and Thisse (2021), "High-speed Rail and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Evidence from Japan's Shinkansen," RIETI Discussion Papers 21-E-003. Redding, S J and M A Turner (2015), "Transportation Costs and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity," in G Duranton, J V Henderson, and W C Strange (eds), Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume 5, Elsevier. 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