Swedish labor movement had developed activities for workers' and their families' everyday life at the turn of the century. These activities consisted of various cultural factors. Most of them came from traditional folk culture or bourgeois culture. These had been blended in the labor movement...

About 100 years ago, in many western countries it was a serious political and social problem whether man should accept workers as equal political actors or not. Workers' participation in the bourgeois public sphere was the central moment for the structural transformation of public sphere (Jorgen...

This is a translation of Cassel's "Socialpolitik"(1902). Today this book is almost forgotten even in Sweden. But it had a great influence on public opinion in those days. We should pay attention to following four points in Cassel's discussion in this book. 1) Cassel criticizes (Manchester)...

The problem of estimating the common regression coefficients is addressed in this paper for two regression equations with possibly different error variances. The feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) estimators have been believed to be admissible within the class of unbiased estimators. It...

Banks are recognized as playing an important role of monitoring borrowers, thereby reducing the agency costs associated with informational asymmetry. However, there remains an issue "who could monitor the banks", because it is difficult for outsiders to monitor banks' management. In particular,...

Economic development in Southeast Asia has been associated with environmental degradation. Its cause is mainly attributed to rapid industrialization, coupled with urbanization and export growth, whereas the vicious circle of the poverty and the contamination is a minor case. The environmental...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the chronic poverty problems in Metro Manila, based on the NSO data and the participant observations in a squatters area. Indeed, we can recognize the improvement in the poverty incidence in M. M. during the 1990s, but the level of the alleviation may tend...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how seasonal fluctuations in preference may change the dynamic stability and make multiple equilibria more likely outcome in a standard monetary economy. In the analysis, we investigate a model of money-in-the-utility function where real money balances...

In this paper, we estimated the net agglomeration economies both in production side and in consumption side using Japanese city data around 1990, when interregional net migration nearly ceased. We showed that doubling city size increases that nominal wage about 10% while it decreases the real...

For Wishart density functions, the risk dominance problems of moment estimators, maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs), James-Stein type minimax estimators and their improved estimators of covariance matrices under the Kullback-Leibler loss function have been well studied in the literature....