目次
                    Preface
 
Chapter 1  Economic Evaluation of the Recovery Process from a Great Disaster in Japan: The Case of Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake  Toshihisa Toyoda
 1. Introduction
2. Economic Evaluation of the Recovery Process
3. Concluding Remarks
 
Chapter 2  The Economic Analysis of Altruistic Consumer Behavior  Hiroaki Teramoto
 1. Introduction
2. Intrahousehold Altruism and Market Place Selfishness
3. Mutual Altruism within Households
4. Bequests and Strategic Interaction
5. The Incentive Model
6. Conclusion
 
Chapter 3  External Debt Default and Renegotiation Economics  Chris Czerkawski
 1. Introduction
2. Economics of debt default
3. Conclusion
 
Chapter 4  Statistical Observations on the External Flow of Funds between China and the U.S.  Nan Zhang
 1. Introduction
2. Basic Concepts in the Analysis of Global-Flow-of-Funds
3. Mirror Image in External Flow of Funds between the US and China
4. The Structural Problems of External Flow of Funds in China
5. Conclusion
 
Chapter 5  Trade Flows in ASEAN plus Alpha  Sithanonxay Suvannaphakdy and Toshihisa Toyoda
 1. Introduction
2. Conceptual Framework
3. Econometric Model
4. Data
5. Empirical Results and Policy Implications
6. Conclusion
 
Chapter 6  Inventory Policies Under Time-varying Demand  Michinori Sakaguchi
 1. Introduction
2. Inventory Model
3. Demand Distribution
4. Demand Type
5. Decomposition of Models
6. Optimal Policy
7. A Few Periods Model
 
Chapter 7  RIDE: Differential Evolution with a Rotation-Invariant Crossover Operation for Nonlinear Optimization  Setsuko Sakai and Tetsuyuki Takahama
 1. Introduction
2. Optimization and Rotation-Invariant Property
3. Differential Evolution
4. Rotation-Invariant Crossover
5. Solving Optimization Problems
6. Conclusion
 
Chapter 8  The Network of Information Society Law  Munenori Kitahara
 1. Introduction
2. The Information Society of Japan
3. Information Society and Law
4. Information Technology and Information Accidents
5. Information Society Law
6. The Network of the Information Society Law
7. Conclusion
 
Chapter 9  The Function of the Copyright Mechanism: The Coordination of Interests of an Inventor and an Improver  Koshiro Ota
 1. Introduction
2. Patent
3. Copyright
4. Telecommunications Act
5. Trade Secret Act: Technological and Product Development Mechanism in Silicon Valley
6. Conclusions
 
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