"This volume compares early modern efforts to provide "public goods" defined as non-market mediated goods not limited to personal relations such as kinship. We examine poverty and famine relief, infrastructure, and forestry in East Asia and Europe, using Japan's Tokugawa era (1603-1868) as a...

The Belt and Road Initiative: challenges, cooperation and action / Wang Linggui & Zhao Jianglin -- The Belt and Road Initiative: why globalization drives in Asia and beyond need to be integrated? / Bali Ram Deepak -- Deepening of Northeast Asia economic integration through the Belt and Road...

We examine a game of competition with access provision in which service quality is endogenously determined through infrastructure upgrades with spillovers. There are two types of equilibria in the free competition regime. In particular, voluntary access provision with an access charge higher...