This thesis extends the previous literature on urban subcenter formation by introducing congestion cost of transportation. A new model is constructed to analyze the efficiency of private decision about firm decentralization with the presence of unpriced transportation congestion. The model features a linear city with provision of transportation infrastructure oriented toward carrying workers to...

Decentralization in natural resource management (NRM) is increasingly promoted as it is believed to offer better management. This study explores the positive and negative aspects of the forestry confl ict that sometimes increases with decentralization. Drawing upon the results of a case study from Sumatra, this study examines how forestry confl ict under decentralization processes was viewed by...

The typical post-Bretton Woods era development growth, and public sector size. But decentralization is approach that emphasized central government-led surprisingly difficult to measure. Nearly all cases development efforts has changed dramatically, and local examining the relationship between decentralization and governments have clearly emerged as players in macroeconomic performance have reli...

In this paper, we show that under certain conditions, strategic decentralization through the addition of a retailer in the distribution channel can increase a manufacturer’s profits. The specific case on which we focus is the quantity coordination (double marginalization) problem for a manufacturer selling durable goods in a two-period setting. We show that the standard solution that coordinate...