The book focuses on the consequences of industrial mobility for optimal public policy. A theoretical framework is introduced: There are several locations with independent governments, industries differ in mobility, and there are local markets for some resources (for instance, labour). The...

The common topic of this collection of studies is the interaction between innovative activity and industrial structure. This interaction is represented in a modelization via dynamic games. An integrated framework to model innovation and market competition with sequential innovative entry is...

Theory of international trade is merged with models of political economy in order to illustrate puzzling issues in a world of rapid trade integration: How can regionalism and multilaterism be compatible and welfare be improved in a world of expanding trading blocks? How can a sustainable...

Poverty, inequality and social welfare are defined in this book. Previous poverty studies are surveyed and a new index of poverty is developed based on everyday meanings, and stressing the individual and relative nature of poverty. Previous definitions of inequality and welfare are described and...

This book is to establish a new and different subject from regional economics. A series of case studies on border-regions with different natural, geographical features, and social and political structures are conducted. The author develops some specific propositions and analytical approaches in...