This book gives readers the theoretical and empirical methods to analyze applied economics. They are institutional economics, information economics, environmental economics, international economics, financial economics, industrial organization, public economics, law and economics, and spatial...

1 Tohru Naito: Introduction and summary -- Part 1 The basic model of regional economy -- 2 Tohru Naito: Regional agglomeration and spatial economics -- 3 Tohru Naito: Urban unemployment and urban–rural migration -- 4 Tatsuya Omori Neoclassical economic growth and public policy -- 5 Daisuke...

This study investigates how transportation costs and environmental damage affect social welfare and the optimal degree of nationalization by assuming asymmetric mixed oligopoly markets. It assumes that both transportation costs and environmental damage are incurred when products are transported...