This volume is a collection of articles which illuminate the attractive interactions between economic theory and several disciplines of mathematical analysis. The topics to be discussed here may be classified under the following six headings: - Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Business...

The empirical analysis of the strategic behavior of local governments in welfare policy is one of the essential areas in local public finance. In this area, multiple theories have been proposed for the strategic behavior of local governments, and while these theories lead to similar strategic...

The regional population problem is one of the most critical challenges in the Japan, and there are many discussions about the problem. Even though the population comprises numerous factors such as population movement, agglomeration, and births, few discussions comprehensively handle these...

The development policy for nursery facilities has become an important issue in Japan in recent years. We thus examine the existence of strategic interaction among local governments over the provision policies for nursery facilities by estimating their reaction function. To this end, we employ a...