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Cross Shareholding and Initiative Effects
Download paper [PDF:484KB]ARIKAWA Yasuhiro
KATO Atsushi
March 2004
04-E-017
Why Has the Border Effect in the Japanese Market Declined?
The Role of Business Networks in East Asia
Download paper [PDF:1.7MB]FUKAO Kyoji
(Faculty Fellow)
OKUBO Toshihiro
March 2004
04-E-016
How to Measure Non-tariff Barriers?
A Critical Examination of the Price-Differential Approach
Download paper [PDF:384KB]FUKAO Kyoji
(Faculty Fellow)
KATAOKA Goushi
KUNO Arata
March 2004
04-E-015
Do Foreign Firms Bring Greater Total Factor Productivity to Japan?
Download paper [PDF:624KB]FUKAO Kyoji
(Faculty Fellow)
March 2004
04-E-014
JAPAN IN EAST ASIA: Changes in the 1990s and New Regional Strategy
Download paper [PDF:188KB]SOEYA Yoshihide
(Faculty Fellow)
March 2004
04-E-013
The Shift from "Market-led" to "Institution-led" Regional Economic Integration in East Asia in the late 1990s
Download paper [PDF:884KB]URATA Shujiro
(Faculty Fellow)
February 2004
04-E-012
The Rise of New Urban Middle Classes in Southeast Asia:
What is its national and regional significance?
Download paper [PDF:189KB]SHIRAISHI Takashi
(Faculty Fellow)
February 2004
04-E-011
Bankruptcy Resolution in Japan: Civil Rehabilitation vs. Corporate Reorganization
Download paper [PDF:293KB]XU Peng
(Faculty Fellow)
February 2004
04-E-010
Does the Varian Mechanism Work?
-Emissions Trading as an Example
Download paper [PDF:280KB]HAMAGUCHI Yasuyo
MITANI Satoshi
SAIJO Tatsuyoshi
(Faculty Fellow)
February 2004
04-E-009
Corporate Governance and Employees in Germany:
Changing Linkages, Complementarities, and Tensions
Download paper [PDF:302KB]Gregory JACKSON
(Visiting Fellow)
Martin HOPNER
Antje KURDELBUSCH
February 2004
04-E-008
Science-Technology-Industry Network
The Competitiveness of Swiss Biotechnology: A Case Study of Innovation
Download paper [PDF:594KB]J. Bart CARRIN
HARAYAMA Yuko
(Faculty Fellow)
J. Alexander. K. MACK
Milad ZARIN-NEJADAN
February 2004
04-E-007
Regionalization and Regionalism:The Process of Mutual Interaction
Download paper [PDF:205KB]MUNAKATA Naoko
(Senior Fellow)
February 2004
04-E-006
Japanese Political Parties: Ideals and Reality
Download paper [PDF:106KB]Gerald CURTIS
February 2004
04-E-005
Effects of bank consolidation promotion policy: Evaluating the Bank Law in 1927 Japan
Download paper [PDF:280KB]OKAZAKI Tetsuji
(Faculty Fellow)
SAWADA Mitsuru
January 2004
04-E-004
An Organizational Architecture of T-form: Silicon Valley Clustering and its Institutional Coherence (Formerly DP03-E-004)
Download paper [PDF:203KB]AOKI Masahiko
(President, RIETI)
January 2004
04-E-003
Physical and Human Capital Deepening and New Trade Patterns in Japan
Download paper [PDF:713KB]FUKAO Kyoji
(Faculty Fellow)
January 2004
04-E-002
Economic Analysis of University-Industry Collaborations: the Role of New Technology Based Firms in Japanese National Innovation Reform
Download paper [PDF:408KB]MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki
(Faculty Fellow)
January 2004
04-E-001
Enterprise Boundaries and Employee Representation:
Deutsche Telekom and NTT Compared
Download paper [PDF:298KB]SAKO Mari
Gregory JACKSON
October 2003
03-E-025
Depositors' selection of banks and the deposit insurance system in Japan: Empirical evidence and its policy implications
Download paper [PDF:328KB]TSURU Kotaro
(Senior Fellow)
November 2003
03-E-024
The Unbundling of Network Elements Japan's Experience
Download paper [PDF:208KB]IKEDA Nobuo
(Senior Fellow)
November 2003
03-E-023
Deflation Caused by Bank Insolvency
Download paper [PDF:268KB]KOBAYASHI Keiichiro
(Fellow)
October 2003
03-E-022
Firm level analysis of information network use and productivity in Japan
Download paper [PDF:260KB]MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki
(Faculty Fellow)
September 2003
03-E-021
Japan's Patent System and Business Innovation: Reassessing Pro-patent Policies
Download paper [PDF:292KB]MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki
(Faculty Fellow)
September 2003
03-E-020
Secure Implementation:Strategy-Proof Mechanisms Reconsidered
Download paper [PDF:368KB]SAIJO Tatsuyoshi
(Faculty Fellow)
Tomas SJOSTROM
YAMATO Takehiko
September 2003
03-E-019
The Impact of Free Trade Agreements in Asia
Download paper [PDF:368KB]KAWASAKI Kenichi
(Consulting Fellow)
September 2003
03-E-018
Strategy-proof Sharing
Download paper [PDF:272KB]MIZUKAMI Hideki
SAIJO Tatsuyoshi
(Faculty Fellow)
WAKAYAMA Takuma
August 2003
03-E-017
A Theory of Banking Crises (Part 1)
Download paper [PDF:314KB]KOBAYASHI Keiichiro
(Fellow)
July 2003
03-E-016
Economic Growth of Japan and the United States in the Information Age
Download paper [PDF:236KB]Dale W. JORGENSON
MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki
(Faculty Fellow)
July 2003
03-E-015
Coordination Costs and the Optimal Partition of a Product Design
Download paper [PDF:208KB]TAKIZAWA Hirokazu
(Fellow)
June 2003
03-E-014
On the Relationship Between the Very Short Forward and the Spot Interest Rate
Download paper [PDF:288KB]UESUGI Iichiro
(Fellow)
Guy M. YAMASHIRO
May 2003
03-E-013
Secure Implementation Experiments: Do Strategy-proof Mechanisms Really Work?
Download paper [PDF:580KB]SAIJO Tatsuyoshi
(Faculty Fellow)
Timothy N. CASON
Tomas SJOSTROM
May 2003
03-E-012
Non-Excludable Public Good Experiments revised October 2003, forthcoming in Games and Economic Behavior.
Download paper [PDF:412KB]SAIJO Tatsuyoshi
(Faculty Fellow)
YAMATO Takehiko
YOKOTANI Konomu
April 2003
03-E-011
