Toshiharu Ishikawa

Dynamic Locational Phases of Economic Activity in the Globalized World

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Produktbeschreibung

This book clarifies the mechanisms of economicglobalization in changing industries' locations and shows how industries' locations have changedthrough those mechanisms. First, the book deals with the retailing industry.Introducing the concept of a contactprice into the market area analysis, it is shown in Part I that retailers'market areas and prices are changed in different ways by a reduction oftransportation costs. The mechanism of these changes is explained by checkingthe contact prices at apexes of the retailers' market areas. Then the book movesto the manufacturing industry and deals with a firm's production process. Part IIof the book shows the manner in which the production volume of factories withinan agglomeration is decreased as the number of factories within theagglomeration increases. Subsequently, considering the fact that many productionfactories depart from agglomerations to other sites to reduce production costs,a method of searching for a factory's new site is proposed in which a firm can seekout an optimal location of a factory in a short period of time. By referring toa chaotic phenomenon, a firm sets a locationprospective area in a large geographical area and selects an optimallocation within that area. In the third part of the book the city system is thefocus. Part III elucidates the theoretical formation of a city system andanalyzes structural changes of a city system due to a reduction oftransportation costs. The mechanism of the change is explained by a flexible market area theory which studiesa city system by using the market areas established in the free-entry equilibrium.Then, the economic relationships between the cities within a city system areexamined from the point of view of the land rent in the cities' areas. Thisanalysis shows the influences of a change in the largest city on other cities. Finally,the relationships between a city system and regional performance are examinedusing real data.The examination shows that the city system reveals the regionalperformance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Nature Singapore / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-981-10-0523-7
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9789811005237
• ISBN-10: 9811005230
• Artikelnr.: 44371511

Autorenporträt

Toshiharu Ishikawa, Faculty of Economics, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Location theory of retailingindustry.- 1 Market areas of retailers in linear space.- 1.1 Formationmechanism of monopoly retailer's market.- 1.2 Emergence of competition andcompetition styles.- 1.3 Equilibrium price and market established in linearmarket.- 2 Market areas of retailers in plane space.- 2.1 Shapes of marketborder between two retailers.- 2.2 Market area in spatial free entryequilibrium.- 2.3 Effects of variety of items on retailer's market situation.-2.4 Effects of freight rate on items and market of shopping center.- 3 Marketanalysis by Contact Price Curve.- 3.1 Derivation of spatial free-entryequilibria.- 3.2 Analysis of spatial free-entry equilibria by using contactprice curve.- Part II Location theory of manufacturing industry.- 4 Change offactory's production in agglomeration.- 4.1 Formation of industrialagglomeration.- 4.2 Relationship between number of factories and agglomerationeconomies.- 4.3 Spatial departure of production processes from agglomeration.-5 Location theory of factory in the globalized world.- 5.1 Factory's locationin the globalized world.- 5.2 Derivation of the profit function of a firm.- 5.3Settlement of location prospective area.- 5.4 Firm's profits and revenues ofcountries in different corporation tax rates.- 5.5 Location power of thecorporation tax and the interest rate.- 5.6 Effects on factory's location ofindustrial park and industrial complex.- Part III Location theory of citysystem.- 6 City systems built on basis of economic activity.- 6.1 City systemsconstructed on basis of market area theory.- 6.2 City system built by usingcities' production functions.- 6.3 Change of city system in the real world.- 7Analysis of city system by using cities' land rents.- 7.1 Assumptions andframework of analysis.- 7.2 Land rent and capital amount in city.- 7.3 Analysisof Land rents and production amounts of cities in city system.- 7.4 Influencesof change of freight rates and production efficiency on cities.- 8 City systemas a location factor.- 8.1 Role of city system in firm's decision making oflocation.- 8.2 Numerical index of characteristics of city system.- 8.3Estimation of social health of prefectures in Japan.- 8.4 Relationships betweencity system and prefecture's performances.- 8.5 City system as a locationfactor.- Appendix.- References.

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Part I Location theory of retailing industry.- 1 Market areas of retailers in linear space.- 1.1 Formation mechanism of monopoly retailer’s market.- 1.2 Emergence of competition and competition styles.- 1.3 Equilibrium price and market established in linear market.- 2 Market areas of retailers in plane space.- 2.1 Shapes of market border between two retailers.- 2.2 Market area in spatial free entry equilibrium.- 2.3 Effects of variety of items on retailer’s market situation.- 2.4 Effects of freight rate on items and market of shopping center.- 3 Market analysis by Contact Price Curve.- 3.1 Derivation of spatial free-entry equilibria.- 3.2 Analysis of spatial free-entry equilibria by using contact price curve.- Part II Location theory of manufacturing industry.- 4 Change of factory’s production in agglomeration.- 4.1 Formation of industrial agglomeration.- 4.2 Relationship between number of factories and agglomeration economies.- 4.3 Spatial departure of production processes from agglomeration.- 5 Location theory of factory in the globalized world.- 5.1 Factory’s location in the globalized world.- 5.2 Derivation of the profit function of a firm.- 5.3 Settlement of location prospective area.- 5.4 Firm’s profits and revenues of countries in different corporation tax rates.- 5.5 Location power of the corporation tax and the interest rate.- 5.6 Effects on factory’s location of industrial park and industrial complex.- Part III Location theory of city system.- 6 City systems built on basis of economic activity.- 6.1 City systems constructed on basis of market area theory.- 6.2 City system built by using cities’ production functions.- 6.3 Change of city system in the real world.- 7 Analysis of city system by using cities’ land rents.- 7.1 Assumptions and framework of analysis.- 7.2 Land rent and capital amount in city.- 7.3 Analysis of Land rents and production amounts of cities in city system.- 7.4 Influences of change of freight rates and production efficiency on cities.- 8 City system as a location factor.- 8.1 Role of city system in firm’s decision making of location.- 8.2 Numerical index of characteristics of city system.- 8.3 Estimation of social health of prefectures in Japan.- 8.4 Relationships between city system and prefecture’s performances.- 8.5 City system as a location factor.- Appendix.- References.