We extend Keen and Kotsogiannis (2002, 2004) by considering all-purpose public goods that are beneficial to both producers and consumers. Horizontal externality (resp. vertical externality) exerted by tax competition will not necessarily lead to inefficient outcomes.

Temperature and pressure variations in compressed air energy storage (CAES) caverns are important factors that affect the overall performance of CAES systems. However, current air storage cavern models used in the thermodynamic analysis of CAES systems usually ignore the effect of heat exchange...

Literature on innovation regions has focused mostly on case studies in mature capitalist economies in North America and Europe, generating little knowledge of how innovation may take place in alternative institutional settings or how institutional transformation occurs in regions other than...

Global migration is transforming not just urban populations, but the nature and economic roles of ethnic banks -- that is, banking institutions owned and operated by minorities. Academic research on ethnic banks has until now focused on the circumstances of African-American-owned banks. This...

To plan the urban traffic path using the ant colony algorithm, the composition and functional division of the mobile robot are analyzed. The TSP (Traveling Salesman Problem) is used to deeply understand the traditional ant colony algorithm. Then, based on this, the improvement scheme of the...

The paper examines the diffusion of lead-free soldering in ICT manufacturers in China as response to EU's RoHS directives, in order to investigate the global–local networks linking the lead market with the producers in developing countries. The result shows rapid diffusion of the technological...

In this paper, we develop several static three-sector general equilibrium models with diverse labor market structures to investigate the effects of government provision of public infrastructure on the skilled–unskilled wage inequality in developing countries. The basic full employment model...

Few studies have analyzed the determinants of house value volatility at the level of individual houses. This paper uses two panels of the American Housing Survey covering 1974-2003 to test four hypotheses related to the determinants of house value volatility. The findings are that 1) house...

In this paper, we integrate intra-region labor migration and inter-region labor migration into Harris–Todaro model in the presence of unidirectional trans-boundary pollution. We conduct a simple comparative static analysis of regional economic and environmental effects of the central...