Autore: Yoshiro Higano

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal is Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, USA. He conducts research in regional economics, natural resource and environmental economics, and international trade theory. He has published over 700 journal articles, books, book chapters, and book reviews in these and other areas in the social sciences. Yoshiro Higano is Emeritus Professor in the University of Tsukuba in Tsukuba Science City, Japan. He has and continues to conduct research on a variety of topics in regional science and he presently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science. Peter Nijkamp is affiliated with Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, Romania, A. Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, and Open University in Heerlen, The Netherlands. He conducts research in regional science, transportation, and urban economics. In a long career, he has published over 70 books and 800 journal articles. He is a recipient of the Spinoza Prize in the Netherlands.