The economic development and urbanization of China in recent years have resulted in the formation of a few large-scale megalopolises, mostly in the eastern coastal area. The three major megalopolises are the Bohai Sea rim area around Beijing, the Yangtze River Delta area around Shanghai, and the...

Here the author quantified Japanese standard Gross Calorific Value and Carbon Emission Factor for various fossil fuels used in Japan upon the request of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of the Environment under the cooperation of relevant industrial organizations by...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the statistical relationship between the utilization of women and profitability as well as productivity. The paper targets Chinese and Korean companies, which have commonalities in the utilization of women, and aims to use the information gained to...

The purpose of this paper is to survey research papers on the effects of immigrants to economies and consider a desirable policy for Japan, a country with an aging population due to a low birth rate.We have confirmed that immigrants with fluent language and high level skills can accelerate...

We present a quantitative evaluation of welfare losses stemming from beer and low malt beer taxation. For evaluating economic welfare, we build a standard model of consumers' utility maximization. In this model, we find that the price elasticity of demand has a key role in evaluating welfare....

In a country such as China, which maintains strict controls on foreign exchange and frequently intervenes in the currency market, it is not surprising that the local currency is persistently undervalued in nominal terms. Normally, one would expect such a policy of deliberate currency...

Liberalization of audio visual (AV) services should promote cross border transactions of cultural media. However, because of certain sensitivity in the industry, regulations for foreign products or capitals in developed and developing countries remain, and liberalization is not progressing.This...

Following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the fall of 2008, governments worldwide went on massive spending sprees in a bid to stimulate the flagging world economy. Typical measures targeted at specific sectors included government bailouts of financial firms and support for the automotive...

Interregional migration is one of the most important issues for the vitalization of the regional economies. What is the factor in changing the regional populations? Numerous factors have been used in past empirical analysis, and many researchers have noticed that using various kinds of...

In this article, we examine the change in the wages of regular employed workers through the 1990s and the 2000s using Japanese establishment level data drawn from the Basic Survey on Wage Structure. Contrary to previous literature that found that the wages in the manufacturing industries...