The Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Model: A diagrammatic analysis

Eric BOND  (Vanderbilt University)
IWASA Kazumichi  (Kyoto University)
NISHIMURA Kazuo  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
February 2012  12-E-008

Are Chinese Imports Sensitive to Exchange Rate Changes?

THORBECKE, Willem  (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
SMITH, Gordon  (Anderson College)
February 2012  12-E-007

Analysis of Industrial Agglomeration Patterns: An application to manufacturing industries in Japan

MORI Tomoya  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
Tony E. SMITH  (University of Pennsylvania)
January 2012  12-E-006

Increasing Returns in Transportation and the Formation of Hubs

MORI Tomoya  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
January 2012  12-E-005

Dissemination of Regenerative Medicine in Japan: Promoting commercialization under the regulatory system

KURATA Kenji  (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
CHOI Youn-Hee  (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
January 2012  12-E-004

Investigating China's Disaggregated Processed Exports: Evidence that the RMB matters

THORBECKE, Willem  (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
January 2012  12-E-003
Non Technical Summary

Market Size and Entrepreneurship

SATO Yasuhiro  (Osaka University)
TABUCHI Takatoshi  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
YAMAMOTO Kazuhiro  (Osaka University)
January 2012  12-E-002

Technology and Capital Adjustment Costs: Micro evidence of automobile electronics in the auto-parts suppliers

UCHIDA Ichihiro  (Aichi University)
TAKEDA Yosuke  (Sophia University)
SHIRAI Daichi  (The Canon Institute for Global Studies)
January 2012  12-E-001

Entry Barriers, Reallocation, and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese manufacturing firms

MURAO Tetsushi  (Hitotsubashi University)
NIREI Makoto  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
December 2011  11-E-081

Retirement Process in Japan: New evidence from Japanese Study on Aging and Retirement (JSTAR)

ICHIMURA Hidehiko  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
SHIMIZUTANI Satoshi  (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
December 2011  11-E-080

Japan and Economic Integration in East Asia: Post-disaster scenario

FUJITA Masahisa  (President, RIETI)
HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
December 2011  11-E-079

Employment Protection and Productivity: Evidence from firm-level panel data in Japan

OKUDAIRA Hiroko  (Okayama University)
TAKIZAWA Miho  (Toyo University)
TSURU Kotaro  (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
December 2011  11-E-078

What Does a Temporary Help Service Job Offer? Empirical suggestions from a Japanese survey

OKUDAIRA Hiroko  (Okayama University)
OHTAKE Fumio  (Osaka University)
KUME Koichi  (Nagoya University of Commerce and Business)
TSURU Kotaro  (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
December 2011  11-E-077

How Important is Geographical Agglomeration to Factory Efficiency in Japan's Manufacturing Sector?

FUKAO Kyoji  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
Victoria KRAVTSOVA  (Hitotsubashi University)
NAKAJIMA Kentaro  (Tohoku University)
December 2011  11-E-076

Labor Market Gender Disparity and Corporate Performance in Japan

Jordan SIEGEL  (Harvard Business School)
KODAMA Naomi  (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
December 2011  11-E-075

Thünen and the New Economic Geography

FUJITA Masahisa  (President, RIETI)
November 2011  11-E-074

Bank Dependence and Financial Constraints on Investment: Evidence from the corporate bond market paralysis in Japan

UCHINO Taisuke  (Fellow, RIETI)
November 2011  11-E-073

How Much Do R&D Tax Credits Affect R&D Expenditures? Japanese tax credit reform in 2003

KASAHARA Hiroyuki  (University of British Columbia)
SHIMOTSU Katsumi  (Hitotsubashi University)
SUZUKI Michio  (University of Tokyo)
November 2011  11-E-072

Multinational Corporations, FDI and the East Asian Economic Integration

Tzu-Han YANG  (National Taipei University)
Deng-Shing HUANG  (Academia Sinica)
October 2011  11-E-071

Differentiated Use of Small Business Credit Scoring by Relationship Lenders and Transactional Lenders: Evidence from firm-bank matched data in Japan

HASUMI Ryo  (Japan Center for Economic Research)
HIRATA Hideaki  (Hosei University)
ONO Arito  (Mizuho Research Institute)
October 2011  11-E-070

The Overseas Subsidiary Activities and Their Impact on the Performance of Japanese Parent Firms

EDAMURA Kazuma  (Tohoku University)
Laura HERING  (Erasmus University)
INUI Tomohiko  (Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office)
Sandra PONCET  (Paris School of Economics / Université de Paris 1 / CEPII)
October 2011  11-E-069

Do More Productive Firms Locate New Factories in More Productive Locations?
An empirical analysis based on panel data from Japan's Census of Manufactures

FUKAO Kyoji  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
IKEUCHI Kenta  (NISTEP)
KIM YoungGak  (Senshu University)
KWON Hyeog Ug  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
September 2011  11-E-068

An Estimation of the Inside Bank Premium

NEMOTO Tadanobu  (Chuo University)
OGURA Yoshiaki  (Ritsumeikan University)
WATANABE Wako  (Keio University)
September 2011  11-E-067

Effect of R&D Tax Credits for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Japan: Evidence from firm-level data

KOBAYASHI Yohei  (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
September 2011  11-E-066

Effect of Pension Reform on Pension-Benefit Expectations and Savings Decisions in Japan

OKUMURA Tsunao  (Yokohama National University)
USUI Emiko  (Nagoya University and IZA)
September 2011  11-E-065

Revisiting Productivity Differences and Firm Turnover: Evidence from product-based TFP measures in the Japanese manufacturing industries

KAWAKAMI Atsushi  (Research Assistant, RIETI / Gakushuin University)
MIYAGAWA Tsutomu  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
TAKIZAWA Miho  (Toyo University)
August 2011  11-E-064

Entry of Foreign Multinational Firms and Productivity Growth of Domestic Firms: The case of Japanese firms

ITO Keiko  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
August 2011  11-E-063

A Network Approach to the Economic Models of Fertility

YOUM Yoosik  (Visiting Scholar, RIETI)
August 2011  11-E-062

Does Tobin's q Matter for Firms' Choices of Globalization Mode?

JINJI Naoto  (Kyoto University)
ZHANG Xingyuan  (Okayama University)
HARUNA Shoji  (Okayama University)
July 2011  11-E-061

Urban Density, Human Capital, and Productivity: An empirical analysis using wage data

MORIKAWA Masayuki  (Vice Chairman & Vice President, RIETI)
July 2011  11-E-060

Multinationals in the Services and Manufacturing Sectors: A firm-level analysis using Japanese data

TANAKA Ayumu  (Fellow, RIETI)
July 2011  11-E-059

Population Density and Efficiency in Energy Consumption: An empirical analysis of service establishments

MORIKAWA Masayuki  (Vice Chairman & Vice President, RIETI)
July 2011  11-E-058

Markups, Productivity, and External Market Development: An empirical analysis using SME data in the service industry

KATO Atsuyuki  (Research Associate, RIETI)
KODAMA Naomi  (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
July 2011  11-E-057

A Model of Multi-Dimensional Human Capital Investment: Specific vs. general investments under uncertainty

ICHIDA Toshihiro  (Waseda University)
July 2011  11-E-056

FDI in Emerging Economies: An analysis in a firm heterogeneity model

ITO Koji  (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
June 2011  11-E-055

Export and Productivity Under Different Market Condition: Evidence from Japan

YASHIRO Naomitsu  (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
HIRANO Daisuke  (The Research Center for Advanced Policy Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University)
May 2011  11-E-054

Report on a Fact-Finding Survey of the Credit-Decision System and Loan Pricing in Small Business Financing in Japan

NEMOTO Tadanobu  (Chuo University)
OGURA Yoshiaki  (Ritsumeikan University)
WATANABE Wako  (Keio University)
May 2011  11-E-053

Technological Knowledge and Offshore Outsourcing: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data

ITO Banri  (Fellow, RIETI)
TOMIURA Eiichi  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
WAKASUGI Ryuhei  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
May 2011  11-E-052

Gender Differences Among Elderly Japanese: Importance of family and social relations for life satisfaction

OSHIO Takashi  (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
May 2011  11-E-051

International Transmission of the 2008 Crisis: Evidence from the Japanese stock market

HOSONO Kaoru  (Gakushuin University)
TAKIZAWA Miho  (Toyo University)
TSURU Kotaro  (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
May 2011  11-E-050

Size Matters: Multi-plant operation and the separation of corporate headquarters

OKUBO Toshihiro  (Keio University)
TOMIURA Eiichi  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
May 2011  11-E-049

Persistent Productivity Differences Between Firms

TAKII Katsuya  (Osaka University)
April 2011  11-E-048

Evidence of a Growing Inequality in Work Timing Using a Japanese Time-Use Survey

KURODA Sachiko  (Waseda University)
YAMAMOTO Isamu  (Keio University)
May 2011  11-E-047

Culture and Diversity in Knowledge Creation

Marcus BERLIANT  (Department of Economics, Washington University)
FUJITA Masahisa  (President, RIETI)
April 2011  11-E-046

The Intertemporal Substitution and Income Effects of a VAT Rate Increase: Evidence from Japan

David CASHIN  (The University of Michigan)
UNAYAMA Takashi  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
April 2011  11-E-045

Stochastic Origin of Scaling Laws in Productivity and Employment Dispersion

FUJIWARA Yoshi  (Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University)
AOYAMA Hideaki  (Department of Physics, Kyoto University)
April 2011  11-E-044

Free-Riding-Proof International Environmental Agreements

FURUSAWA Taiji  (Harvard University / Hitotsubashi University)
KONISHI Hideo  (Boston College)
April 2011  11-E-043

An Economic Analysis of the Special Milk Classes Scheme of Canada and the Agricultural Subsidy

ABE Kenzo  (Osaka University)
April 2011  11-E-042

Life-Cycle Search, Match Quality and Japan's Labor Flow

Julen ESTEBAN-PRETEL  (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
FUJIMOTO Junichi  (the University of Tokyo)
April 2011  11-E-041

Japan's Labor Market Cyclicality and the Volatility Puzzle

Julen ESTEBAN-PRETEL  (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
NAKAJIMA Ryo  (Yokohama National University)
TANAKA Ryuichi  (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
April 2011  11-E-040

Changes in Japan's Labor Market Flows due to the Lost Decade

Julen ESTEBAN-PRETEL  (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
NAKAJIMA Ryo  (Yokohama National University)
TANAKA Ryuichi  (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
April 2011  11-E-039

Exploring the Sources of Firm-level Scale Economies in R&D: Complementary assets, internal and external knowledge inflows, and inventor team size

NAGAOKA Sadao  (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
OWAN Hideo  (the University of Tokyo)
April 2011  11-E-038