Demographic determinants of car ownership in Japan

Determinants · of Home Ownership

Forecasting Car Ownership in the Sydney Area

An accurate forecast of car ownership is fundamental to understanding the development of travel patterns in any area. The paper describes the development of car ownership models for the Sydney area. The models operate at household level, allowing the full detail of the socio-economic characteristics of the household and in particular licence-holding to be taken into account. Relating car owners...

Change of ownership networks in Japan

As complex networks in economics, we consider Japanese shareholding networks as they existed in 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2002, and 2003. In this study, we use as data lists of shareholders for companies listed on the stock market or on the over-the-counter market. The lengths of the shareholder lists vary with the companies, and we use lists for the top 20 shareholders. We represent these shareh...

Ownership : Trends , Determinants , Issues

Software patents and university-owned patents represent two of the more controversial intellectual property developments of the past 25 years. For the last few years, the European Union has been embroiled in a fierce debate over the merits of explicitly allowing software patents. In the U.S., where such patents clearly exist, various legal scholars have quarreled with the breadth of software pa...

Car Ownership , Employment , and Earnings Steven

In this paper, we attempt to assess whether the positive effects of car ownership on employment outcomes observed in past research are causal. We match state-level data on average car insurance premiums and average per-gallon gas taxes to a nationally representative microdata sample containing information on car ownership and employment outcomes comparable to the those explored in previous rese...