A Model of Bajaw Economy

SAKAKIBARA, Kenichi

榊原, 健一

[SUMMARY] Bajaw, Ocean people emigrated mainly from Philippines, Indonesia,and Malaysia, and engaged in trade among those countries, have been studied in Sociology or Cultural Anthropology (e.g., Stacy et al. (2018) ), but not in Economics, in spite of the importance of their economic activities such as trade, smuggling, migrations, poaching, etc., that seriously affect the surrounding countries. This paper presents a theoretical model of Bajaw in a general equilibrium framework of Economic Theory. The model consists of two countries and one ocean tribe, in which two country-specific goods exist. The ocean people are emigrated from the two countries, and engaged in trade between the two countries, through collecting transportation fee. The main results are as follows. First, The increase in population and output will cause the decrease in the output and the population of the other country. Second, the increase in the transportation fee will cause the decrease in the output and the population of each of the two countries aswell as the decrease in everyone’s welfare. These results seem to be contrary to conventional view of Economics, and to suggest the necessity of new policy implementations based on a new framework for analyzing such an economic region.

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/108097/

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/108097/S09127216-35-1-P001-SAK.pdf

千葉大学経済学会

Economics Association for Chiba University

紀要論文

09127216

AN10005358

千葉大学経済研究 = Economic journal of Chiba University

35

1-2

1

13

2020-07-15

10.20776/S09127216-35-1-P1

publisher

経済研究 (ONLINE ISSN 2436-8873)