This book introduces recent developments in both theoretical and empirical analyses of local public economics. Theories of those economics as well as empirical analyses have been developed dramatically in various directions in recent years. One direction has been to reflect real economic...

This book outlines the core concept of the theory of mixed oligopoly and presents recent results that have arisen in a mixed oligopolistic market. The wave of privatization since the 1980s has taken the development of the theory of mixed oligopoly in several directions. Although the main concern...

1. Declining Population Growth and the Serendipity Theorem -- 2. Consumption of Leisure Goods, Leisure Time, and Inheritance of Tastes for Leisure in an Overlapping Generations Model -- 3. Overlapping Generations Model with Relative Preference for Children's Human Capital -- 4. The Impact of...

Preface -- Contents -- Part I: Basic Frameworks -- Chapter 1: Basic Properties of a Mixed Oligopoly Model -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Basic Mixed Oligopoly Model -- 1.3 Partial Privatization -- 1.4 Free-Entry Equilibrium and the Privatization Problem -- 1.5 Entry Restriction and Partial...