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Can the Japanese Agri-food Sectors Survive by Promoting their Exports?: A General Equilibrium Analysis with Farm Heterogeneity and Product Differentiation HOSOE, Nobuhiro AKUNE, Yuko Agri-food Exports Food Supply Chain Firm Heterogeneity Product Differentiation https://www.grips.ac.jp/list/jp/facultyinfo/hosoe_nobuhiro/ Manufacturing industries have attracted research attention regarding roles of firm heterogeneity and product differentiation in the “ new new trade theory.” Agricultural sectors also produce new goods by product differentiation through breeding, food processing, quality-upgrading, and branding. In reaction to the recent globalization, the Japanese government has sought strategies to promote its domestic agri-food sectors by means of product differentiation and export promotion. This computable general equilibrium study examines the relevance of these policies by simulating hypothetical trade liberalization in agriculture and/or food. We show that agricultural trade liberalization would not increase Japan’ s agricultural exports but would increase food exports; and that food trade liberalization would promote food exports. Both types of liberalization would increase domestic production in agri-food sectors through agri-food linkages and variety effects. This finding affords evidence of the relevance of product differentiation strategy through food processing and exportation, but not of agricultural export promotion strategy. This study is partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant (Nos. 16K03613, 16K07907, 16KT0036, 19K01622). GRIPS Policy Research Center 2019-07-22 eng technical report AM https://doi.org/10.24545/00001688 https://grips.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/1700 10.24545/00001688 https://ideas.repec.org/p/ngi/dpaper/19-06.html https://ideas.repec.org/p/ngi/dpaper/19-06.html GRIPS Discussion Papers DP19-06 https://grips.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/1700/files/DP19-06.pdf application/pdf 1.7 MB