Dynamic Locational Phases of Economic Activity in the Globalized World

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• Dynamic Locational Phases of Economic Activity in the Globalized World

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• Singapore, Springer, 2016

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• Preface -- Contents -- Part I Location Theory of RetailingIndustry -- 1 Market Areas of Retailers in Linear Space -- 1.1 Formation Mechanism of a Monopoly Retailer's Market -- 1.1.1 Basic Assumptions -- 1.1.2 Formation of the Market Area and Derivation of the Retailer's Profit -- 1.1.3 Retailer's Price and Location in Limited Liner Space -- 1.2 Emergence of Competition and Competition Styles -- 1.2.1 Retailers' Situation Before the Emergence of Free-Entry Competition -- 1.2.2 Change of Retailers' Situation Due to a Reduction of Transportation Costs -- 1.2.3 Analysis of Competition Styles Between the Retailers -- 1.3 Equilibrium Price and Market Size Established in Linear Markets -- 1.3.1 Equilibrium Prices and Market Sizes in Three Different Competition Styles -- 1.3.2 The Mechanisms of a Changing Equilibrium by Competition Style -- 1.3.3 Characteristics of the Established Market Situations -- 2 Market Areas of Retailers in Plane Space -- 2.1 Shapes of Boundary Between Two Retailers' Market Areas -- 2.1.1 Derivation of the Shapes of Market Boundaries by Using Two Regular Cone Surfaces -- 2.1.2 Boundary Shape in the Case of the Same Prices and Transportation Costs -- 2.1.3 Boundary Shape in a Case of the Same Prices and Different Transport Costs -- 2.1.4 Boundary Shape in a Case of Different Prices and the Same Transportation Costs -- 2.1.5 Boundary Shape in a Case of Different Prices and Different Transportation Costs -- 2.1.6 Boundary in a Case of the Same Retailers' Locations and Different Transportation Costs -- 2.1.7 Market Boundary Shapes Derived by a Method of Numerical Calculation -- 2.1.8 A Comment on the Market Boundary Analysis -- 2.2 Market Area in Spatial Free-Entry Equilibrium -- 2.2.1 Feasible Market Shapes in a Free-Entry Equilibrium -- 2.2.2 Market Shapes of Retailers in Free-Entry Competitive Equilibria
• 2.2.3 Shapes of Demand Curves in Retail Market Space -- 2.2.3.1 Demand Curved in a Greenhut-Ohta Competition Model -- 2.2.3.2 Demand Curve in a Lösch Competition Model -- 2.2.3.3 Equilibrium Situations in Lösch and Greenhut-Ohta Competition Models -- 2.2.3.4 Change of Market Area Due to Decrease of Transportation Costs -- 2.3 Effects of a Variety of Items on Retailers' Market Situations -- 2.3.1 Effects of the Variety of Items on the Boundary of Market Areas -- 2.3.1.1 Assumptions and Derivation of Retailer's Profit Function -- 2.3.1.2 Effect of a Variety of Items on the Market Area Boundary -- 2.3.2 Effect of the Variety of Items on Retailers' Market Area Size -- 2.3.2.1 Influence of Competition Styles on the Equilibrium for the Variety of Items -- 2.3.2.2 Changes of the Number of Items and Market Size by Decreasing Transportation Costs -- 2.3.3 The Difference in Traction Powers at a Store and the Market Boundary -- 2.4 Effects of Freight Rate on Items and Market of a Shopping Center -- 2.4.1 Assumptions and Framework -- 2.4.2 The Number of Retailers and Market Area of a Shopping Center -- 2.4.3 Change of the Number of Retailers at Centers Due to Decreasing Freight Rates -- 2.4.3.1 Change of the Framework of the Analysis -- 2.4.3.2 Analysis of a Shopping Center in a Monopolistic Competition -- 2.4.3.3 The Importance of an Expanding Market Area in an Equilibrium -- 3 Market Analysis Using the Contact Price Curve -- 3.1 Derivation of Spatial Free-Entry Equilibria Using an Existing Method -- 3.1.1 Derivation of Lösch Equilibrium in Spatial Free-Entry Market Space -- 3.1.2 Derivation of the Greenhut-Ohta Equilibrium in a Spatial Free-Entry Market Space -- 3.2 Analysis of Spatial Free-Entry Equilibria Using the Contact Price Curve -- 3.2.1 Derivation of the Contact Price Curve -- 3.2.2 Analysis of Free-Entry Competitive Equilibria in a Plane Market Space
• Part II Location Theory of ManufacturingIndustry -- 4 Change of a Factory's Production in Agglomeration -- 4.1 Formation of Industrial Agglomeration -- 4.2 The Relationship Between the Number of Factories and Agglomeration Economies -- 4.2.1 Internal and External Economies in an Agglomeration -- 4.2.2 Relationship Between the Number of Factories and Agglomeration Economies -- 4.2.3 Mechanism of Structural Changes of Production in Agglomeration -- 4.2.4 Reformation of Agglomerations Due to Fragmentation Production -- 4.3 Spatial Departure of Production Processes from Agglomeration -- 4.3.1 Assumptions for the Analysis of a Factory's Production Function -- 4.3.2 A Firm's Profits as Derived from Different Production Modes -- 4.3.2.1 A Firm's Profit from a Simple Production Mode -- 4.3.2.2 A Firm's Profit Derived from Full Division Production in a Factory -- 4.3.2.3 A Firm's Profit Derived from Spatially Fragmented Production Mode -- 4.3.2.4 The Relationships Between Production Modes and Firm's Profits -- 5 Location Theory for a Factory in the Globalized World -- 5.1 Factory's Location in the Globalized World -- 5.2 Derivation of the Profit Function of a Firm -- 5.2.1 Assumptions and Framework of the Analysis -- 5.2.2 Derivation of the Profit Function of Factory 1 -- 5.2.3 The Profit Functions of Factory 2 and the Firm -- 5.3 Settlement of a Prospective Location -- 5.3.1 Usefulness of a Chaotic Phenomenon -- 5.3.2 Formation of the Location Prospective Area -- 5.4 Firm's Profits and Revenues in Countries with Different Corporate Tax Rates -- 5.5 Location Power of the Corporate Tax and the Interest Rate -- 5.5.1 Assumptions for the Examination of Location Power of Corporate Tax Rates -- 5.5.2 Location of the Factory When the Corporate Tax Rate Is Relatively High -- 5.5.3 Change of Position of LPA Due to a Reduction of the Corporate Tax Rate
• 5.5.4 Position of the LPA When the Corporate Tax Rate Is Relatively Low -- 5.5.5 Location Power of the Interest Rate of the Country -- 5.5.5.1 Firm's Profit Function as the Interest Rate Is Considered -- 5.5.5.2 Shift of a Factory's Location Due to a Change of the Interest Rate -- 5.5.5.3 Shift of Factory's Location by Expansion of the Term of Production Activity -- 5.6 Effects on a Factory's Location in an Industrial Park and Industrial Complex -- 5.6.1 Locational Shift of a Factory Due to an Increasing Change of Production Efficiency -- 5.6.2 Relationship Between the Location of the Industrial Park and Production Efficiency -- 5.6.2.1 Industrial Park that Aims to Improve Production Efficiency and Its Location -- 5.6.2.2 Location of an Industrial Park in a High Freight Rate of Intermediate Goods -- 5.6.2.3 Location of an Industrial Park in Low Freight Rate of Intermediate Goods -- 5.6.3 Industrial Complex Aiming to Reduce Fixed Costs and Its Location -- 5.6.3.1 Location of the Industrial Complex with a High Freight Rate of Intermediate Goods -- 5.6.3.2 Location of the Industrial Complex with a Low Freight Rate of Intermediate Goods -- 5.6.4 Effects of Improving the Industrial Park and Industrial Complex on the Manufacturing Firm -- 5.6.5 Differences Between an Industrial Park and Industrial Complex in Location Policy Making -- Part III Location Theory of City System -- 6 City Systems Built on the Basis of Economic Activity -- 6.1 City Systems Constructed on the Basis of Market Area Theory -- 6.1.1 City Systems by Traditional Market Area Theory -- 6.1.2 City System in a Spatial Competitive Market Space -- 6.1.3 Change of a City System Due to a Reduction of Transportation Costs -- 6.2 City System Built by Using Cities' Production Functions -- 6.2.1 Assumptions and Framework
• 6.2.2 Change of Optimal Population Size Due to an Increase of a Region's Population -- 6.2.2.1 Population and Production Amount of Cities in a Low-Population Region -- 6.2.2.2 Population and Production Amount of Cities in a Medium-Population Region -- 6.2.2.3 Population and Production Amount of Cities in a High-Population Region -- 6.2.2.4 The Relationship Between Population Distributions and the Production of Cities -- 6.2.3 Changes of a City System Due to an Increase of the Region's Population -- 6.2.3.1 Change of a Region's Production Amount Due to an Increase of Its Population -- 6.2.3.2 The Population Change of Cities Due to an Increase of the Region's Population -- 6.2.3.3 Production Change of Cities Due to an Increase of the Region's Population -- 6.2.4 Population Distribution Within a City System in Sweden -- 6.3 Change of a City System in the Real World -- 6.3.1 Polarization of a City System by a Change in the Manufacturing Industry -- 6.3.2 Polarization of a City System by a Change of the Retail Industry -- 6.3.3 A Simple Test of the Hypothesis of a Polarized City System in a Country -- 6.3.4 Reduction of Medium Cities' Shares of Laborers and Population in 1990s -- 6.3.4.1 Reduction of Economic Activity and Population in Medium Cities in Japan -- 6.3.4.2 Reduction of Economic Activity and Population in Medium Cities in Sweden -- 6.3.5 Distributions of Economic Activity and Population in City Systems in Japan and Sweden -- 6.3.5.1 Distributions of Economic Activity and Population in City Systems in Japan -- 6.3.5.2 Distributions of Economic Activity and Population in City Systems in Sweden -- 6.3.6 Results of the Inspection of the Hypothesis of Polarization of Population -- 7 Analysis of a City System by Using Cities' Land Rents -- 7.1 Assumptions and Framework of the Analysis -- 7.2 Land Rent and Capital Amount in a City
• 7.2.1 Land Rent Distribution in a City Area

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