Contemporary Issues in Applied Economics

<p>Part 1: Economic Development, Growth, and Social Welfare.- Chapter 1. Improvement in Living Standards in the 1960-1970s and Economic Development in Korea (Sok Chul Hong).- Chapter 2. Fertility Dynamics with Family Bargaining (Akira Yakita).- Chapter 3. Skill-Biased Innovation, Growth, and Inequality (Yasuyuki Osumi).- Chapter 4. Ramsey’s conjecture in a stochastically growing economy (Tamotsu Nakamura).- Chapter 5. Impact of Copyright Protection on Recreation of Digital Contents When Expression and Idea are Divisible (Takuya Nakaizumi).- Part 2: Inequality and Redistribution, and Intergenerational Transfers.- Chapter 6. An International Comparison of Inequality of Educational Opportunity Using TIMSS (Changhui Kang).- Chapter 7. Political Economics of Income Inequality, Redistributive Policy, and Interregional Migration (Moriki Hosoe).- Chapter 8. Population Aging and Tax Policy in Korea (Kiseok Hong).- Chapter 9. Public Debt, Lobbying and Endogenous Redistribution in an Overlapping-generations Model (Tsuyoshi Shinozaki).- Chapter 10. Intergenerational Living Arrangements and Labor Supply of Married Women (Hyunbae Chun).- Part 3: Public Policy and Political Economics.- Chapter 11. An Employment Model of Social Enterprises and the Effects of Government Subsidy (Hyunwoo Hong).- Chapter 12. Congestion, technical returns, and the minimum efficient scales of local public expenditures: An empirical analysis for Japanese cities (Masayoshi Hayashi).- Chapter 13. Fiscal Stabilization under Government Spending Reversal (Kazuki Hiraga).- Chapter 14. Welfare Effects of Public Education and National Security (Tatsuya Omori).- Chapter 15. Optimal cooperation of medical care and nursing care in a two-region spatial model (Tohru Naito).- Chapter 16. Towards Deeper Integration Among China, Japan and Korea (Bo-Young Choi).- Chapter 17. Effects of multidimensional poverty on health indicators in Japan: income, time, and social relations (Wei Wang).- Chapter 18. A Real Options Analysis onSpeculative Bubbles in Housing Market: Considering Seoul Metropolis Case (Hojeong Park).- Chapter 19. CO2 emissions, energy consumption, GDP, and foreign direct investment in ANICs Countries (Suyi Kim).- Chapter 20. Consumer Heterogeneity and Trade in Shared Renewable Resource Trading (Takeshi Ogawa).- Chapter 21. The Relationship between Oil Price and Korean Industrial Production and Inflation (In Huh).</p>