Theory and History in Regional Perspective

Chapter 1. Geodemographics and urban planning analysis: an historical review.- Chapter 2. When is Competition Between Cities for Members of the Creative Class Efficient?.- Chapter 3. Revisiting Marshallian versus Walrasian Stability in an Experimental Market.- Chapter 4. Analysis of spatial economic system and adaptive transportation policy for regional welfare improve-ment.- Chapter 5. Effects of nominating an area as the candidate place of a new NIMBY facility: A consideration.- Chapter 6. On the Existence and Sustainability of Long-standing Japanese Shinise Firms.- Chapter 7. The Formation Process and Logic of the Spin-off Governance Mode: A Case Analysis of the Morimura Zaibatsu.- Chapter 8. Dynamic Model of Urbanization with Public Goods .- Chapter 9. Optimal Openness.- Chapter 10. Settlement and Migration Patterns of Immigrants by Visa Class in Australia.- Chapter 11. CULTURE AND THE CITY - AN APPLICATION OF DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS TO CULTURAL PERFORMANCE.- Chapter 12. Government Intervention in Real Estate Market: Is Tax Reform Effective in Seoul Housing Market?.- Chapter 13. The Economic Effects on Regional Australia of RUN-member Universities.- Chapter 14. Financial literacy and Consumer Debt: An Empirical Analysis Based on the CHFS Data.- Chapter 15. A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on Regional Economies through Japan's Fruit Tree Production Changes: Evidence from Panel Data and Spatial CGE Models.- Chapter 16. Economic Value of Coral Reefs in Palau.- Chapter 17. International Trade in Environmental Goods and Environmental Regulation in the Presence of Lobbying".- Chapter 18. A Test for the Herfindahl Index.- Chapter 19. Risk Culture - Comparative Analysis of Risk Management.- Chapter 20. "What is our study of risk for? The case of the Japanese "Go To campaign".- Chapter 21. The Sales Channel of Life Insurance and Relationship Marketing.- Chapter 22. Differences in State Level Impacts of Covid-19 Policies.-

Masamichi Kawano is a Professor Emeritus of Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya city, Japan. He earned Ph.D. from University of Tsukuba. The field of the thesis is public economics, especially, optimal taxation in dynamic framework. He has taught Economics at Toyohashi University of Technology, Teikyo University of Technology and Kwansei Gakuin University, etc. He is now teaching economics as a Guest Professor at the School of Science, Kwansei Gakuin University. His fields of interest are applied microeconomics, theoretical regional economics, etc. He has been a member of the Regional Science Association International.

Karima Kourtit is at the Open University, Heerlen, The Netherlands. She was lab-owner at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS) of the division Smart Cities & Data analytics (owned by the Eindhoven University of Technology and Tilburg University), 's- Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. She has worked at the Center for the Future of Places (CFP) of the Department of Urban Planning and Environment, School of Architecture and Built Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. She holds two Ph.D.s, in both economics and geography (with distinction), and has a profound interest in regional and urban topics. Her research interest focuses on the emerging 'New Urban World'. Her main scientific research is in the field of creative industries, urban development, cultural heritage, digital technology, and strategic performance management. Lately, she has also been involved in the implementation of several national and international research projects and initiatives. Furthermore, she has been an editor of several books and guest editor for many international journals, and has published a wide array of scientific articles, papers, special issues of journals and edited volumes in the field of geography and the spatial