-- Introduction. .-Import Substitution Digitalization Strategies?Examining China’s Protectionism “Myth”. -- Big Data and the Guizhou Economy.-What Patent Data Reveal: The Current State of Innovation in China. -- Strengthened Enforcement of Chinese Antimonopoly Law against Digital Platform...

Introduction: Scope and Overview -- Value Realization from the Perspective of Customers and Users -- Value Creation through Technological Innovation -- Theory for Understanding the Value Realization -- Smart media era: transformation in the age of Internet communication -- The metaverse era:...

Introduction -- An Analysis of the Effect of Demand Response on Electricity Consumption: Assessing Households’ Heterogeneous Reaction to Dynamic Pricing -- Estimation of Tap Water Demand in Japan: A Panel Data Analysis -- Economies of Scale and Consolidation Effects in the Japanese Sewerage...

Global liquidity as a new trend in international capital flows -- Destination of Global Liquidity before the Global Financial Crisis: Role of Foreign Bank Presence and the EU Effect -- Global Liquidity and Reallocation of Domestic Credit -- Global Financial Crisis and Demand for the US Dollar as...

Preface -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Fundamental Structure of Capitalist Economy -- 3.Extended Reproduction in the Capitalist -- 4.Accumulation and Crisis in Capitalist System Economy -- 5.Tendency Law in Capitalistic Accumulation -- 6.A Vision Toward New Society.

Introduction -- Arbitrage Trading in Energy Market and Risk Measurement -- Fuel Markets Connectedness and Fuel Portfolio Risk -- Hedging Strategy with Futures Contracts -- Investing in a portfolio consisting of energies and related commodities.

Preface -- Chapter 1. Privatization of Public City Gas Utilities in Japan: Reasons, Objectives, and Methods -- Chapter 2. Survival Analysis of Public Gas Utility Firms in the Japanese Urban Gas Industry -- Chapter 3. Concession in infrastructure management: A case of public gas service in Japan...