We consider an economy in which a heterogeneous population of agents have to choose among a common set of alternatives. The utilities associated to the different alternatives posses a common component and an individual component, which reflect differences in the underlying structure of agents...

The effect of regulation on a dominant firm to protect fringe firms in a local market -- Corporate taxation and regional economic development in Japan: A panel analysis of prefectural-level data -- Economies of scale and culmulative causation -- Firms' human resource management for local economy...