The main object of this book is to explain some of the mechanisms of integration and secession among regions from the point of view of game theory. To attain this goal, the incentives of regions in a country to unite or to secede and the conditions in the way for the member countries of a...

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...

Part 1: Economic Development, Growth, and Social Welfare -- Chapter 1. Improvement in Living Standards in the 1960-1970s and Economic Development in Korea (Sok Chul Hong) -- Chapter 2. Fertility Dynamics with Family Bargaining (Akira Yakita) -- Chapter 3. Skill-Biased Innovation, Growth, and...

Introduction: Applied Economics of Information and Risk -- An Incentive Mechanism with regard to Transaction-Specific Investment, and Information -- Bidding Mechanism of Monitoring and Collusion -- Effectiveness of Mandatory Disclosure for Consumer Policy -- Asymmetric Information, Ex-ante...

The purpose of this article is to analyse the effect of the externalities of industrial pollution on trade patterns and economic geography. Many researchers have studied the effects of agglomeration on regional systems. Krugman (1991) applied the monopolistic competition model to international...