The video game industry is a billion dollar industry with an ever-growing fan base. Massachusetts, along with other states, has begun to take an interest in further developing this dynamic industry. A problem facing many policy makers and economic developers is accurately defining the video game industry, determining the types of workers that form of human capital within its workforce and where these businesses are located. This study helps to solve this problem by converting video game credits, found in all video games, into Standard Occupational Codes to identify the types of workers who comprise the industry and by conducting spatial analysis using Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS). It also uses the Occupational Information Network to evaluate what forms of human capital comprises the video game industry. The results show the video game workforce comprises both creative workers such as artists and musicians, but also computer programmers, engineers, and business management and marketing professionals. This workforce tends to be concentrated not only in larger U.S. metropolitan areas but also in regions with a significant high-technology workforce, college towns, and government laboratories. Also, as this diverse workforce contains a wide variety of skills and abilities, a common theme is being able to work together as a team to develop a product. This study is part of a growing body of research and initiatives to identify and to locate new, creative industries within metropolitan regions. This research will contribute to future research using occupational analysis to identify new and growing industries.

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Three main components represent the pillars of this research: Human Economic Security (HES), Islamic economics, and the Malaysian economy and policies addressing economic insecurities. HES is part of Human Security (HS), and both are presented in this research from the Islamic perspective to relate to both Islamic economics and Malaysia, the constitutionally Islamic country. To reach a conclusion regarding the subject, the researcher asks the question: "Can Malaysia actualize HES on the bases of equity and justice for all its citizens through enlarging and enhancing the performance of the Islamic Voluntary Economic Sector (IVES) institutions, specifically the redistributive institution of zakat?" The methodological approach of this research is basically a qualitative one. In the concluding chapter the researcher finds that Islamic economics could grow to become more social, more so through the growth of the IVES. However, a steady growth of the sector is not enough to actualize HES noticeably in Malaysian contexts. A more robust growth rate in the sector is conditional to decisive government interventions that favor the growth of the IVES. / 博士(グローバル社会研究) / Doctor of Philosophy in Global Society Studies / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University

In this study, we investigate the relationship between national and global uncertainty with house prices. Uncertainty is measured with the economic policy uncertainty index developed by Baker et al. (2016). The relationship is evaluated with eight SVAR-models that are Cholesky decomposed to restrict the contemporaneous relationship between variables, this is used to model the housing market. We create two models for each country, one that includes the local uncertainty and one that includes global uncertainty. The studied countries are two larger and two smaller economies in the EU, namely Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and France. We investigate the impulse response functions to establish the short-run dynamics and then compare them amongst each other. The results show that uncertainty has a negative effect on house prices and that global uncertainty hasa larger impact than local uncertainty, except for Sweden´s case. Germany is most resilient to the effect of uncertainty among the studied countries. This can be because of the size of the rental housing market in Germany. Interestingly we also find that in all cases except for Denmark our models don’t find a consistent relationship between short-term interest and housing prices in the short run, which can be an indication of a bubble. Further studies are required to investigate how different housing policies affect the volatility of the housing market that is created by uncertainty.

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The purpose of research - to identify the distinctive features of management of analytical centers, affecting the work of improving the competitiveness of organizations. The object of the study is analytical centers in Russia and abroad. The subject of the study are the factors influencing the increase of competitiveness of think tanks. Think tanks perform a wide range of tasks involved in research and consulting in the field of social policy, political strategy, economy, militarization, technology and culture. In addition to commercial activities, they fulfill an important political role, creating a dialogue between public authorities, the academic community and civil society organizations, as well as the two largest world centers of research organizations in the field of economic policy is the United States and the European Union, which formed sector analytical centers, While in Russia, they are just beginning to separate segments organizations. / Цель исследования – определить отличительные особенности управления аналитическими центрами, влияющие на повышение конкурентоспособности работы таких организаций. Объектом исследования выступают аналитические центры России и зарубежных стран. Предметом исследования являются факторы, влияющие на повышение конкурентоспособности аналитических центров. Аналитические центры выполняют широкий набор задач, занимаются проведением исследований и консалтингом в области социальной политики, политической стратегии, экономики, милитаризации, технологий и культуры. Помимо осуществления коммерческой деятельности, они выполняют важную политическую роль, создавая диалог между органами государственной власти, академическим сообществом и гражданскими организациями, а также двумя крупнейшими мировыми центрами исследовательских организаций в области экономической политики являются Соединенные Штаты и Евросоюз, в которых сформирован сектор аналитических центров, в то время как в России их только начинают выделять в отдельный сегмент организаций.

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