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Toward Optimal Provision of Regional Public Goods in Asia and the Pacific
Conference Highlights
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This publication presents highlights of a conference that gathered leading academics, policymakers, and international organizations to discuss the theory, practice, and policy considerations of regional public goods. Jointly organized by the Asian Development Bank Economic Research and Regional Cooperation...
Innovation Networks for Regional Development
Concepts, Case Studies, and Agent-Based Models
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This book brings together original research on the role of networks in regional economic development and innovation. It presents a comprehensive framework synthesizing extant theories, a palette of real-world cases in the aerospace, automotive, life science, biotechnology and health care industries,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
The need for informed and effective insights into key concepts and models of regional development and growth, from an endogenous growth perspective, has risen over the past decade. These recent advances address in particular local and regional assets and characteristics comprising inter alia creativity,...
Regional Cohesion
Effectiveness of Network Structures
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
This book presents an interdisciplinary analysis of EU regional cohesion based on a network and clusters approach. The author explores the question if and how the presence of network structures supports the effectiveness of transformation in EU regions, in particular with a focus on non-pecuniary...
Empirical Modelling in Regional Science
Towards a Global Time‒Space‒Structural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Economic agents interact in structural relationships through time and space. This work starts from the empirical observation that all three dimensions, namely time, space, and structural functional forms, are important for an integrative framework of modern empirical analysis in regional science....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
This is the first book to provide readers with a theoretical and empirical analysis of sustainable economic growth in Asian countries. Recently, most Asian countries have achieved rapid economic growth and their existence cannot be ignored in the world economy. However, these countries now face the...
Measuring Regional Specialisation
A New Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book explores statistical models in regional specialization, presenting a brand new measure. It begins by reviewing existing indicators and models of regional specialization before outlining a newly created, spatially embedded model of specialization based on the spatial distribution of firms....
A New Perspective on Agglomeration Economies in Japan
An Application of Productivity Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book describes various methods of analysis for ascertaining the effects of agglomeration economies, which are important for formulating regional economic policies. Specifically, it describes new analytical approaches using productivity and productive efficiency analyses as methods for understanding...
Japan's Security Policy and the ASEAN Regional Forum
The Search for Multilateral Security in the Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Based on primary resources, including documents and extensive interviews with Japanese policy makers, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed empirical analysis of Japan’s involvement in Asia-Pacific security multilateralism after the end of the Cold War with special reference to the ARF....
Regionalism in South Asia
Negotiating Cooperation, Institutional Structures
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
The dramatic surge in regional integration schemes over the past two decades has been one of the most important developments in world politics. Virtually all countries are now members of at least one regional grouping. South Asia is no exception to this trend. In December 1985, seven South Asian countries...
Tourism and Regional Development
New Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Tourist visits used to be a less common activity in the past. However, more people than ever now make leisure trips, making this an era of mass tourism. This drastic change in spatial behaviour is not only caused by economic prosperity, but the scale of this phenomenon means that it is able to generate...
Multi-regional Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling of the U.S. Economy
USAGE-TERM Development and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
This book details the preparation of USAGE-TERM, a computable general equilibrium model that provides regional economic detail in the USA. The model can represent either congressional district or state level economic activity. The latter may include a top-down representation of county activity. Interest...
Defining the Spatial Scale in Modern Regional Analysis
New Challenges from Data at Local Level
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book explores different approaches to defining the concept of region depending on the specific question that needs to be answered. While the typical administrative spatial data division fits certain research questions well, in many cases, defining regions in a different way is fundamental in...
The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy
A Regional Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Knowledge has in recent years become a key driver for growth of regions and nations. This volume empirically investigates the emergence of the knowledge economy in the late 20th century from a regional point of view. It first deals with the theoretical background for understanding the knowledge economy,...