Firms’ Location Selections and Regional Policy in the Global Economy

Part I Restructuring agglomeration to spatial production network (1 Firm location and agglomeration economies: Daisuke Nakamura.- 2 Fragmentation of production process due to growth and survival competition: Toshiharu Ishikawa.- 3 Supply chain, transportation, and spatial risk: Tatsuaki Kuroda.- 4 Formation of supply chains in East Asia: Yutaka Yamada)
             
Part II   New location factors in global economy (5 Effects of the corporation tax rates on factory’s location through the function of the transfer price: Toshiharu Ishikawa.- 6 The Impact of transfer pricing regulations on the location decisions of MNEs: Junpei Itoh and Yoshimasa Komoriya.- 7 International comparison of corporate taxation systems: Masahiro Shinohara
8 Features of industrial and economic structure as factors for firms’ Location selections: an analysis of ASEAN countries: Mitsuhiro Hayashi)

Part III　Regional economic policies in global economy (9 The role of cities in Nordic regional development policy: Lars Westin and Martin Ericksson.- 10 Regional development policies in the Philippines: from diffusion to integration: Arianne Dela Rosa Dumayas)

Part IV Economic vitalization strategies of cities (11  The spatial distribution of wealth—A search for hot spots : Johan Lundberg.- 12 Establishing urbanity in a region abundance with natural resources, the case of Umeå Sweden : Lars Westin.- 13 Economic vitalization strategy of Schweinfurt, Germany: Simon Suffa.- 14 Economic vitalization strategy of Chongqing, China: Yan Sun and Yoji Taniguchi.- 15 City development in emerging economies: the case of Davao city in the Philippines: Arianne Dela Rosa Dumaya.- 16 Significance of constructing city system in regional policy: Toshiharu Ishikawa and Rickard Wall).