The Economic Impact of Cultural Industries Geographical Locations and Time Series Analysis

Abstract

By using Input-Output tables, we studied the effect of geographical locations on economic impacts of cultural industries, as well as the change of economic impacts through time. We found that the cultural industries in Tokyo have greater economic impacts than the average of Japan. Moreover, a time series analysis revealed that changing patterns of multiplier effects from 1990 to 2000 vary for each of cultural industries. In particular, the economic impact of motion picture drastically increased during the period.