This book presents a multiregional input-output model for the metropolitan area of Southern California, which helps to estimate the economic impact of simulated terrorist attacks on seaports, malls etc. as well as of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The authors also analyze...

In Korea, the number of holding companies has increased steadily every year due to government deregulation. Establishing holding companies is a means by which companies attempt to improve corporate governance, especially when opacity is a problem due to circular shareholdings. Recently, however,...

This study investigated whether economic motivations are a key factor in international migration decisions. Applying the selectivity-corrected expected income for migrants and stayers, the difference in expected income for an individual in origin and destination countries was analyzed. This...

Although there have been many elaborations of the basic input-output approach, including multi-regional models, dynamic models, models with variable coefficients, supply-side models, etc., these approaches all have the same limitation. The fixed-coefficients production function assumptions...