Contemporary Issues in Applied Economics

An important feature of this book is its analysis of various contemporary issues in applied economics, distinguished by advanced theoretical research and empirical analysis focusing on Japan and Korea. The book consists of four parts, the first of which investigates economic growth and welfare, using tools of applied analysis. In Part II, it examines inequality, redistribution, and intergenerational transfers, mainly on an empirical basis. In turn, Part III explores public policy and political economics, while Part IV addresses resource and environmental economics on the basis of data from Japan and Korea. In addition to offering valuable insights, this collection of papers commemorates the 10th anniversary of academic exchange between the Japan Association for Applied Economics (JAAE) and the Korean Association for Applied Economics (KAAE).

Focuses on the urgent issues of economic growth, regional inequalities, public policy, and the environmental economy Investigates contemporary issues based on data from Japan and Korea Comprises selected papers from the Japanese and Korean academic societies JAAE and KAAE

Autorentext
Moriki Hosoe, Kumamoto Gakuen University
Biung-Ghi Ju, Seoul National University
Akira Yakita, Nanzan University
Kiseok Hong, Ewha Womans University

Inhalt
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 Eects of Government Subsidy (Hyunwoo Hong).- Chapter 12. Congestion, technical returns, and the minimum ecient 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 Eects 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. Eects 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 Ination (In Huh).