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Japan's Lost Decade and the Complexity Externality (Revised)
Download paper [PDF:767KB]KOBAYASHI Keiichiro
(Fellow)
INABA Masaru
March 2002
02-E-004
Why Does the Problem Persist?
"Rational Rigidity" and the Plight of Japanese Banks
Download paper [PDF:111KB]NISHIMURA G Kiyohiko
(Faculty Fellow)
KAWAMOTO Yoko
(McKinsey & Company, Inc., Japan)
March 2002
02-E-003
Spectrum Buyouts:
A Mechanism to Open Spectrum (revised December 2003)
Download paper [PDF:300KB]IKEDA Nobuo
(Senior Fellow)
March 2002
02-E-002
Incentives and Option Value in the Silicon-Valley Tournament Game (Revised)
Download paper [PDF:181KB]AOKI Masahiko
(President, RIETI)
TAKIZAWA Hirokazu
(Fellow, RIETI)
February 2002
02-E-001
Development of Longitudinal Micro-Datasets and Policy Analysis for Japanese Industrial Sectors
Download paper [PDF:101KB]MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki
(Faculty Fellow)
December 2001
01-E-007
Use of plant level micro-data for SME innovation policy evaluation in Japan
Download paper [PDF:92KB]MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki
(Faculty Fellow)
December 2001
01-E-006
Careers and incentives of Japanese "fast-track" bureaucrats:A career-path dependent model perspective
Download paper [PDF:203KB]TSURU Kotaro
(Senior Fellow)
December 2001
01-E-005
Bank relationships and firm performance: Evidence from selected Japanese firms in the electrical machinery industry
Download paper [PDF:158KB]TSURU Kotaro
(Senior Fellow)
December 2001
01-E-004
Road Transport and Environmental Policies in Japan
Download paper [PDF:106KB]KANEMOTO Yoshitsugu
(Faculty Fellow)
HASUIKE Katsuhito
FUJIWARA Toru
October 2001
01-E-003
Foreign Direct Investment in Japan
Empirical Analysis Based on Establishment and Enterprise Census
Download paper [PDF:223KB]FUKAO Kyoji
(Faculty Fellow)
ITO Keiko
October 2001
01-E-002
Japanese Technology Policy:
History and a New Perspective
Download paper [PDF:144KB]HARAYAMA Yuko
(Faculty Fellow)
September 2001
01-E-001
